Sentence Examples
It is dishonest, and worse, to accuse this honorable man of the monstrosity. |
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That was true, if having the singletree fall on me while I helped harness Samson and Achilles up to the cargo wagon could be deemed honorable. |
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Still, as my honorable friend said, the states would have power to arm them. |
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Big media, with a few honorable exceptions, are respectfully swallowing the big lies. |
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He is a jolly well-met fellow, like clubmen generally are, but perfectly honorable and straightforward. |
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Many honorable journalists have tried to do the former, many other sleazeballs have done the latter. |
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That part was true, but his reasons for marriage are not entirely honorable. |
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All I can do for you is give you the opportunity to die a quick, honorable death. |
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However, fear, as well as guilt, forced me to choose the more honorable course of action. |
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Spamming is an honorable profession, and all spammers live by the credo that everyone should have the right to unsubscribe from future mailings. |
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The most he could do was provide us with a handwritten note that vouched for our honorable intentions. |
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Medals can denote honorable deeds as well as ones that are questionable or disreputable. |
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He will try in his honorable role as the advocate to gain as much advantage as he can for his point of view. |
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I was beginning to feel all tingly as he gazed into the limpid pool of my eyes and professed his honorable intentions. |
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Marriage is the basis of the family, and it is in healthy families that children are reared to be honorable people and good citizens. |
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As an amende honorable to the late President Wilson, Fiumians suggested naming a street after him. |
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However, at that time, the Church refused to bury actors on consecrated ground unless they had performed the amende honorable with a priest. |
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It was common for the land managers to discreetly inquire around the neighborhood to discover if the potential buyer was honorable. |
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I was beginning to feel all tingly as he gazed into the limpid pool of my eyes and profess his honorable intentions. |
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He assured him that his intentions with his daughter were honorable, and asked if he could speak to her. |
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The ronin's distant past explores the conflict between an honorable samurai heritage and the financial worries of masterless ronin. |
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I come from a good family, my father was an honorable man, and I was the lord of one of the richest earldoms in the kingdom. |
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The most honest, honorable, forthright people in my life are also polite, compassionate, and quite capable of making constructive criticism. |
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Amicitia principum, friendship with the emperor, was a sure way of gaining access to senatorial magistracies and other honorable positions. |
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The tanist shall receive the ancient and honorable coronet of the Principality according to the traditions of the Principality. |
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To them, constabulary duties are far less glamorous and honorable than the conventional wars they signed up for, and far more ambiguous. |
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The idea that an honorable death is better than a life of disgrace continues in modern Japan. |
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Even if Lena's original intentions were less than honorable, at least in the end she told Bianca the truth. |
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I that matter hold more honorable which in it selfe is firme, not permutable. |
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There is also a strong message that vengeance is ignoble, and sacrificing oneself for any higher cause is honorable. |
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Her hero's commitment to a vision of honorable politics is clearly out of place in a context of political corruption, baseness, and compromise. |
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Recently, our family has been discussing what would be a befitting, honorable tribute to his life. |
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That's an honorable but perhaps ironic stance for a company which is big on its own inventiveness. |
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When you put it that way, the street-level huckster almost sounds more honorable than the executive. |
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In this way he was, in the truest and most honorable sense, a conservative. |
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The consumption of rabbit meat has a long, honorable history in the United States. |
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The Starks are fatalistic, duty-bound, honorable but kind of unsophisticated. |
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What does an honorable man do in times when dishonor rules supreme? |
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And what could be more honorable than rounding up your besties to pay homage to a hallowed pop deity? |
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In a way, this is worse than the racism of white supremacists, since this is thought to be an honorable attitude. |
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Their motives were the usual mix of the honorable, the base, and the subconscious. |
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There is an honorable dimension to daring rooted in vanity, to reckless boldness, to irrationality in the service of an ideal. |
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The man who will accept your nomination tomorrow is prayerful and faithful and honorable. |
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I shall support my honorable friend now, and if he succeeds in this amendment, then I shall support him if he moves to leave out the latter part of the clause. |
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Some of the comments are priceless and deserve to be preserved, with the hope that they might at some future date bring a blush of shame to the cheeks of the more honorable. |
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Like the kids in today's army, I was just another poor boy sucked into the machine and told how honorable and patriotic it was to offer myself as cannon fodder. |
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Temperament tested and intensively trained for nearly eight months, Noah joined the honorable ranks of border collies working as certified hearing dogs and service dogs. |
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These states are more comfortable with a distant hegemon with an honorable history of restraint than a local hegemon with a persistent history of expansionism. |
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These passwords had to be repeated by the palace guards, who were grizzled old centurions given guard duty as a kind of honorable semi-retirement. |
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He couldn't risk having her think his intentions were less than honorable. |
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This is an honorable and compulsively fascinating evening that disproves the notion that the playwright is merely a witty chronicler of mid-century, middle-class life. |
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Were I to do that, Tom, I would be discharged from the military in a less than honorable manner and have a black mark on my name that would last the rest of my life. |
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And that, I say, is why he received his honorable discharge. |
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Kyle Bressler, Andy Hall and Derek Kipperburg were all named to the second team, the Bobby Pfennigs earned honorable mention. |
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Daniel Ortiz and Chris Vasquez were second-team selections and Doug Barillas was honorable mention. |
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Senior midfielder Joey Dehnert was chosen to the second team, and junior attackman Andrew Strickland received honorable mention. |
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Luxury was abolished. People lived in honorable marriage. All the women were chaste, faithful, and far from wantoners. |
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They are trying to find an honorable way out of this dispute. |
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Reporter Tom Parkinson won honorable mention for his feature story on public access television. |
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A writer must refuse to allow himself to be transformed into an institution, even if it takes place in the most honorable form. |
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After a closely fought battle the Spanish were forced to surrender on honorable terms. |
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She did what she could and had, as far as I know, an honorable career. |
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The sight of our five trustees and five other officials in their Sunday casuals walking into the board room at 7 in the morning is honorable. |
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The sixth was a young knight of lesser renown and lower rank, assumed into that honorable company. |
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Worthy of honorable mention in any rundown of springtime produce are Armenian cucumbers and Mountain tomatoes. |
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An honorable man who collects beautiful little pencil sharpeners. |
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Missing from photo is Cecelia Schmuck of Fitchburg, honorable mention. |
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Humanist professors focused on the ability of students to write and speak with distinction, to translate and interpret classical texts, and to live honorable lives. |
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Dishonorable people came to play an important place in the social imaginary of honorable guildsmen way out of proportion with their actual numbers. |
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There seemed to be a shared perception of Colonel North as a good and honorable serviceman who had been left to twist in the wind, the scapegoat of an operation gone awry. |
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The TriVista team congratulates Havel for earning this honorable award. |
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Lynch badly disserves himself and the many honorable officers he is sworn to represent-all of whom have themselves been tarnished by that conduct. |
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Examples from Classical Literature
They were honorable men and would have scorned the course pursued by the ministers. |
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I have the greatest respect for honorable toil, but even more for callithump. |
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Tiw is the god of honorable war, the son of Odin and Frigga, the earth mother. |
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In speaking of parlement lawe, I haue in the chapiter precedent said somewhat of this high and most honorable court. |
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Half a dozen women have honorable mention and one cannot be told from the other. |
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He was sure the right honorable gentleman would not at present press this plan, if he were not unwilling to cast a slur on former measures by altering it. |
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Miss Mary also received her full share of the credit, nor was the kettle excluded from honorable mention. |
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For Grant's honorable mention he received the brevet rank of captain, to date from the day of the battle of Chapultepec. |
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All the good little girls get prizes, but I wish he wouldn't go back to that honorable mention of mine. |
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He is a gentleman, honorable as the day is long, even if he is hot-headed at times. |
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The master or superintendent of the pontifices was one of the most honorable offices in the commonwealth. |
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Perhaps I shall be put into a flowerpot, for that is by far the most honorable position. |
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It is not only the most honest and honorable, but the surest means of amassing property. |
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If you had asked a Chicagoan, the honorable chairman would have been compelled to resort to cloture before the orator got through. |
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I once heard him say that the white wool on a janizary's cap was more honorable than the horse tail on the tent spear of another. |
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These are they who are honorable men of the earth, who were blinded by the craftiness of men. |
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What if she, by partaking of his fortunes, might have won him to an honorable and just life. |
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My swordbearer got the paste, and now may the writing stick there as an honorable memento till the end of the world. |
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Some of the ottos sent by a native perfumer of Benares were deemed worthy of honorable mention. |
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In the neighborhood of the Marquesas Islands, honorable gentlemen, we fell in with a Spanish ship loaded with coffee. |
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It is an honorable position and one which our little Mendel will some day be able to fill. |
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Mr. Merwin was well known in this com75munity as an upright, honorable man, in whom there was no guile. |
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Tom was gray, too, and had crinkly ears, and many other honorable battle-scars. |
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The Confederate soldier has a full, honorable, and ungrudged participation in all the benefits of a great and just Government. |
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It is very honorable in you to make the offer, and I like you the better for having made it. |
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Being an honorable man with an unseared conscience, he would have to pay a good price in self-contempt for the last half-hour. |
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Is it that the right honorable gentleman has conceived a sudden affection for the National League? |
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The right honorable gentleman laughed 'artily, it said, same as they say about royalty. |
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My honorable friend, Mr. Rutherfurd, says that from the time the prime meridian was chosen it would cease to be neutral. |
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In this way was John Williams, a hard-working, honorable Welshman, buried. |
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Lineman Jonathan Celestine and defensive backs Michael Carr and Dez Revish were honorable mention. |
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Amyntas, the king of macedon, gave them a very honorable reception. |
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A sky-pilot is an ancient and honorable calling, but not for me. |
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His ancestry is among the most honorable known in American society. |
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I account that man more honorable than that great captain of antiquity who boasted of taking as many walled towns. |
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They'll think you an honorable man 'stead of a bunco-steerer. |
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The apron in which I had wrapped the writing-desk was the only approach I had made toward wearing the honorable uniform of the workingman. |
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Surely the honorable member held a commission in the Clare Fencibles. |
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I may be the damndest fool alive, but at least I'm an honorable fool. |
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Whether it was just, or honorable, or kind, is a secondary consideration. |
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The big brother counted upon a pious, docile, learned, and honorable pupil. |
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The man was a far-away Scots cousin of my late wife, who bore the honorable name of Bruce, and followed a seafaring life. |
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He was garroted at Havana, being refused the honorable death of a soldier. |
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Her worst enemies admitted that the honorable Lavia had redeeming qualities, and owned that a keen sense of humor was one of her merits. |
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Though from what Professor Bumper said I know he regards Professor Beecher as a perfectly honorable man, as well as a brilliant student. |
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The true nobility laughed at him, the talented repelled him, and the honorable instinctively despised him. |
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The hara-kiri was of course a last resort, but it was an honorable death. |
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After a long and honorable career I have to become a sneak thief. |
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I trust that I am now the prisoner of some honorable knight or gentleman. |
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In all this, the journalist of the future may find an honorable place. |
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But he was very single-minded and honorable, and had much charm of manner. |
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I hope she gets an honorable mention, even if she can't hit the prize. |
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He was a worthy citizen, well deserving of honorable mention. |
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Would the honorable gentleman come and take a squint at Rajah? |
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Was not the honorable member's father a band-master in the fifty-fourth? |
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The very resolution to which he had wrought himself by dint of logic and honorable pride was beginning to relax under her torpedo contact. |
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For my part, I abominate all honorable respectable toils, trials, and tribulations of every kind whatsoever. |
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I'm bound to admit that a more unshaven, unshorn, unkempt, and uneverything wretch I never saw outside the ancient and honorable order of tramps. |
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He was undoubtedly a gentleman of honorable pedigree and of many accomplishments, but two of his accomplishments emerged from all the rest. |
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Of course, in a community so organized, what can a man of honorable and humane feelings do, but shut his eyes all he can, and harden his heart? |
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This bird was a godsend to us, and I should be an ingrate if I forgot to make honorable mention of him in these pages. |
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And therefore you begin in error when you advise that we should regard the opinion of the many about just and unjust, good and evil, honorable and dishonorable. |
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At length an honorable peer, Morcerf's acknowledged enemy, ascended the tribune with that solemnity which announced that the expected moment had arrived. |
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Erdemoglu Selim is a loyal and honorable lieutenant in the Turkish Janissary Corps, whose personal passions include a lifelong love of the the finest gourmet teas. |
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When he entered the kitchen presently, with both eyes shut and groping for the towel with his hands, an honorable testimony of suds and water was dripping from his face. |
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Fernand Mondego, Count of Morcerf, an old soldier who has fought in twenty battles and whose honorable scars they would denounce as badges of disgrace. |
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Bright himself, he is now in his senior year at Williams College, and has a prospect of graduating with some degree of honorable distinction at the next Commencement. |
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Perhaps Wakem was gone out of town to-day on purpose to avoid seeing or hearing anything of an honorable action which might well cause him some unpleasant twinges. |
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