hon'ble

Lords of his Maj. most hon'ble Privy Councel, "from" Grace, the wife of

Notes and Queries, Number 48, September 28, 1850 Various

Sloop, prays this hon'ble Court, the premises being proved, That the sd.

Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial Period Illustrative Documents 1898

What a pity that hon'ble judges should not study to acquire at least ordinary proficiency in such a simple affair as Elocution!

Baboo Jabberjee, B.A. F. Anstey 1895

From the last it is clear that his hon'ble lordship meant that, in secret, he has the highest opinion of my merits, though he entirely overlooked the obvious fact that he would have better carried out his benevolent and patronising intentions towards me by affecting (just now) to consider me only a worthless poor chap. But even the most subtly-trained European intellects are curiously backward in such elementary chicaneries!

Baboo Jabberjee, B.A. F. Anstey 1895

"Well, massa, I don't 'spect 'twould be berry hon'ble in me to tell, case I know dey taut I was sleepin', and didn't know I couldn't help hearin 'ebery word dey sed."

The Brother Clerks A Tale of New-Orleans Mary Ashley Townsend 1866

"Dus wot's hon'ble mean dat Missy Mara got ter mar'y Marse Bodine an you de limpsey-slimpsey one wot say you 'serted her?"

The Earth Trembled Edward Payson Roe 1863

"Reckon I put a spoke in dat hon'ble bizness," Aun 'Sheba soliloquized.

The Earth Trembled Edward Payson Roe 1863

'Fo' de Lawd my honey lam 'die ef you an Marse Bodine' sist on bein so orful hon'ble.

The Earth Trembled Edward Payson Roe 1863

The hon'ble Alden Gobble was dyspeptic, and he suffered great on easiness arter eatin ', so he gees to

The Clockmaker Thomas Chandler Haliburton 1830

North-West Extremity of the River Thames, for I shall comprehend under that Name the Deep Bay we have been in for this week past, the North-East point of which is the Promontory we past on Saturday morning last, and which I have named Cape Colvill in honour of the Right hon'ble the Lord

Captain Cook's Journal During the First Voyage Round the World James Cook 1753