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I was guided by that savage principle which falsely we call honour.
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The abilities of this able and conscientious man soon raised him to the bench, where he discharged his duties with that high and nice sense of integrity which can only be described by the word honour.
Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume III. Mrs. Thomson
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You have proved him once more incapable of apprehending the meaning of the word honour.
Raemaekers' Cartoons With Accompanying Notes by Well-known English Writers Louis Raemaekers 1912
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I will not shield myself from you, my friend, behind the word honour.
Tales and Novels — Volume 08 Maria Edgeworth 1808
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I was guided by that savage principle which falsely we call honour.
The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Complete Tobias George Smollett 1746
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I was guided by that savage principle which falsely we call honour.
The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Volume 02 Tobias George Smollett 1746
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“I am an old, experienced salmon, and use not to gulp the angler’s hook because it is busked up with a feather called honour.
Quentin Durward 2008
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(Indiawards) the more we find these practices held in honour.
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Dandan also rose and went out to meet him and stood before him in honour.
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Therefore, to pray to, to swear by, to obey, to be diligent and officious in serving; in sum, all words and actions that betoken fear to offend, or desire to please, is worship, whether those words and actions be sincere or feigned: and because they appear as signs of honouring are ordinarily also called honour.
Leviathan 2007
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