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Examples
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While we were speaking French, he played upon the word honnête, and hunted the honourableness of Phyllis over all its meanings.
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That rutt honn Earl of Warrington is president of the board of directors, Abe; and supposing we should maybe for example have a fire, Abe, what show would we stand it with this here rutt honn
Potash & Perlmutter Their Copartnership Ventures and Adventures Montague Glass 1905
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"Ain't it better we should insure our goods by farmers and ranchers as by somebody what we don't know what he does for a living, like the rutt honn Earl of Warrington?"
Potash & Perlmutter Their Copartnership Ventures and Adventures Montague Glass 1905
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"The rutt honn Earl of Warrington," Morris replied.
Potash & Perlmutter Their Copartnership Ventures and Adventures Montague Glass 1905
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Ponchartrain, announced his death as occurring in the previous winter, and added the brief comment, "c'était un très-honnête homme."
France and England in North America; a Series of Historical Narratives — Part 3 Francis Parkman 1858
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On a bien massacr ` e des gens chez nous, mais a-t-on jamais vu battre des Mains pendant qu'on mettait ` a mort un pauvre malheureux, un officier general, qui avait langui pendant deux ans en prison? un homme enfin si sensible ` a l'honneur, qu'il n'avait pas voulu se sauver! si touch ` e de la disgrace qu'il chercha ` a avaler les grilles de sa prison plut ` ot que de se voir expos ` e ` a l'ignominie publique; et c'est exactement cette honn ` ete pudeur qui fait qu'on le traine dans un tombereau, et qu'on lui met un baillon ` a la bouche comme au dernier des sc ` elerats.
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4 Horace Walpole 1757
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Constinobl, or honn y doeth y genhedlaeth vwyav o’r byd, ac o genhedlaeth Joseph o Arimathea y hanoeddyn ell tri, ac o lin Davydd brophwyd mal y tystiolaetha Ystoria y Greal.” — (Triad lxi. first series.) {129d} This name occurs in the Tale of Twrch Trwyth, page 259.
Y Gododin A Poem of the Battle of Cattraeth Aneurin 1836
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