"Honour" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... afflicting calamity!" she writes. "When last I wrote his name in a letter to you, it was to describe him as the admired of all beholders, the hero of the fete, the pride and honour of France, and now what remains of him is in his grave! The affliction of his family baffles all description. I receive the most touching accounts from Paris. Some ladies about the Court write to ...
— What I Remember, Volume 2 • Thomas Adolphus Trollope
... As far as I can, consistently with the honour of our family, you know I will; but there ...
— The Duenna • Richard Brinsley Sheridan
... "I have the honour to inclose a sketch of the observations which I was enabled to make upon this journey, together with such details as I have thought best calculated to show both the scale upon which these estates are worked, and the complete success with which the abolition of ...
— The Journal of Negro History, Volume 6, 1921 • Various
... tapestries, the modern restorer—to whom be much honour—finds a sign of identification in the handling of old tapestries that is scarcely within the province of the amateur, but is worth mentioning. It is the black tracing on the warp with which high-warp weavers assist their work ...
— The Tapestry Book • Helen Churchill Candee
... "He was in daily expectation that the next mail would bring him news that he had drawn the highest prize in the lottery; and I have known him to borrow money of a friend under a solemn pledge of his honour for its repayment in ten days, and have afterward ascertained that his sole expectation of redeeming his pledge depended on his drawing a prize when the next lottery in which he was interested should ...
— A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3 • DeAlva Stanwood Alexander
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