do honor to

“King Bud of Noland and his dainty fair-haired sister, the Princess Fluff, were friends of Zixi, as their kingdoms were adjoining, so they had traveled together from their far-off domains to do honor to Ozma of Oz on the occasion of her birthday.”

Fictionaut: Love Letters

“I began with saying that having anchored in the road, and finding his fleet there (which consisted of one 80 gun ship, seven frigates and about eighty Corvettes, Brigs and Transports) I had come to pay my respects to him and to congratulate him on his successes over his enemies; he whimpered and simpered, like an old woman, thank'd me, but pretended to be excessively sorry for the loss of life on the part of the Psariotes, he having taken very good care that not a man on the Island should have his head left on his shoulders; but the women would not give him a chance, they did that which would do honor to the Antient Hist: of Greece! throwing their children from the precipices into the sea, and then following themselves.”

Charles Philip Yorke, Fourth Earl of Hardwicke, Vice-Admiral R.N.

““Carry your name well and do honor to the Swift River pack.””

Simon & Schuster: Promise of the Wolves

““Resolved, That, while we cordially thank the Governor and Legislature of Virginia, for the steps they have taken to do honor to the memory of General Lee, yet in deference to the wishes of his loved and venerated widow, with whom we mourn, we will not discuss the question of the most fitting resting-place for his ever-glorious remains, but will content ourselves with expressing the earnest desire and hope that at some future proper time they will be committed to the charge of this Association.””

A Life of Gen Robert E Lee

“I put on my festal dress to do honor to my happiness; I shake my castanets, that my hands, too, may be busy; I felice, ” felicissima! ”

Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli

“(Capitolia nostrae inficiata lyrae, Sylv.l. iii.v. 31) may do honor to the games of the Capitol; but the Latin poets who lived before Domitian were crowned only in the public opinion.] 11 Petrarch and the senators of”

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“Yet he is speaking of a woman.] 94 Anastasius (p. 40) has preserved this epithet of Sanguinarius which might do honor to a tiger.]”

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire