honourables

Young "honourables" and other needy scions of the governing classes have little ambition to undertake civic duties, while they are only onerous and expensive.

The Corporation of London, Its Rights and Privileges William Ferneley Allen

And, dare one say it, far too many of the "honourables", too?

Daily News & Analysis 2010

"honourables" began life as country storekeepers or schoolmasters.

A Canadian Heroine, Volume 1 A Novel Harry Coghill 1871

That would be alright with the honourables members though it seems because they could use a different fig leaf to hide THEIR moral indiscretion of cutting and running.

An exchange of letters - Beyond The Commons - Macleans.ca 2010

In this, we find that the "right honourables", our representatives, do not have the virtues that are common among ordinary people.

CHANGE THE POLITICIANS 2009

Frank Haughton, 'one of' the three honourables 'on the

Australian Writers Desmond Byrne

The 'three honourables,' of whom the disguised bushranger captain is one, are together in a hotel.

Australian Writers Desmond Byrne

In truth, we might ask, what would become of our aristocratic classes ere long, if they came, as a body, to be identified with their gambling lords, their black-leg baronets, their insolvent honourables, and the seedy set of

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 328, February, 1843 Various

And so his fame travelled far beyond his own collegiate walls, and out-college honourables and gentlemen-commoners were content to make the acquaintance, and eat the dinners that were so freely offered.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844 Various

We call such men the _honourables of the land_, whose examples should be written in letters of gold, and on monuments of marble, as helps to social duties and for the imitation of after times.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 385, August 15, 1829 Various