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  • "I don't know - I may be wrong ... but I don't think my honour's worth that much, d'ye know?"

    Fiancée 2010

  • Life's goal I now behold from my station here; may fortune aid me in my headlong leap from this rock in honour's cause, down into the fire below. to mix my ashes in the ruddy blaze with my husband's, to lay me side by side with him, there in the couch of Persephone; for ne'er will to save my life, prove untrue to thee where thou liest in thy grave.

    The Suppliants 2008

  • Shameful, maybe, yet for thee better than honour's code.

    Hippolytus 2008

  • Life's goal I now behold from my station here; may fortune aid me in my headlong leap from this rock in honour's cause, down into the fire below. to mix my ashes in the ruddy blaze with my husband's, to lay me side by side with him, there in the couch of Persephone; for ne'er will to save my life, prove untrue to thee where thou liest in thy grave.

    The Suppliants 2008

  • I know, "abso-deffo" ain't in your lexiconfluence, FW; but, I'm not sure whether the honour's all mine or if I have to share some of it with illustrious you!

    A Peek-See Profile @ Surname Searcher Judith Fitzgerald 2008

  • Shameful, maybe, yet for thee better than honour's code.

    Hippolytus 2008

  • I'm mightily indibted for the loan of your lordship's honour's charitable rimuneration.

    A Dialogue for the Year 2130 2002

  • Would you believe, at Captain Lebyadkin's, out yonder, whom your honour's just been visiting, when he was living at Filipov's, before you came, the door stood open all night long. —

    The Possessed 2003

  • I don't know what is the good of such prudery; if it is for honour's sake, why not marry them?

    Don Quixote 2002

  • The King would not harm her, he was sure of that, but he might, he just might, for his honour's sake, put her aside ....

    The Wicked Day Stewart, Mary, 1916- 1983

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