"Honorable" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Duke of Cumberland, who had just sponsored a tapestry plant at Fulham, and follows with an outline of the honorable traditions of the woodcut, pointing out that Duerer, Titian, Salviati, Campagnola, and other painters drew their work on woodblocks to be cut by woodcutters, and adds that "even Andrea Vincentino did not think it in the least a Dishonour, though a Painter, ...
— John Baptist Jackson - 18th-Century Master of the Color Woodcut • Jacob Kainen
... in poor and abandoned churches, and we were ignorant and submissive to all. I worked with my hands and would continue to do, and I will also that all other friars work at some honorable trade. Let those who have none learn one, not for the purpose of receiving the price of their toil, but for their good example and to flee idleness. And when they do not give us the price of the work, let us resort to the table of the Lord, begging our bread from door to door. ...
— Life of St. Francis of Assisi • Paul Sabatier
... was nearly seventy-three when he died. His remains were interred with every honor in Westminster Abbey, but soon after were taken up, and conveyed to the chapel at Blenheim, and laid in a magnificent monument, which the duchess had erected for this honorable purpose. ...
— Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 2 of 8 • Various
... that he had loaned the money. His explanation was both honorable and clear. But the Ten ...
— Famous Privateersmen and Adventurers of the Sea • Charles H. L. Johnston
... sound of her own name, then lay tense and rigid, waiting for Lilian's answer. She knew it was not honorable to listen, and she certainly did not care to do so; but if she cried out now, after having kept silent so long, Lilian, who was absurdly nervous in the dark, might be seriously frightened. Perhaps she would disagree and change the subject. ...
— Betty Wales Freshman • Edith K. Dunton
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