Title for a Congressman

Usage examples of honorable.

On the accession of Alexander he returned to court, and was placed by that prince in a station useful to the service, and honorable to himself.

A similar instance, in Grecian history, admonished the emperor of the honorable part prescribed for his imitation.

If Chamberlain was right and honorable in appeasing Hitler in September 1938 by sacrificing Czechoslovakia, was Stalin wrong and dishonorable in appeasing the Fuehrer a year later at the expense of Poland, which had shunned Soviet help anyway?

He could pride himself on not having succumbed to his baser instincts, on having adhered to the honorable course.

Instead of exposing his person and his legions to the arrows of the Parthians, he obtained, by an honorable treaty, the restitution of the standards and prisoners which had been taken in the defeat of Crassus.

Clod, Aunt Viney, and, above all, Bim, who barked loudly, and rushed wildly about the room at this honorable mention of his name.

The President is Counting On Us, as the Very Honorable James Boulin Chartwell, III, would say.

French, the free English, and the Irish at the Battle of the Boyne is honorable.

After celebrating his own clemency, which was still inclined to pardon their repeated crimes, and to spare the remnant of a guilty nation, Constantius assigned for the place of their exile a remote country, where they might enjoy a safe and honorable repose.

I can conceive of no life more delightful than that of a lawyer in good health, and with good capacity, and with a sufficient clientage, spent in that manly emulation and honorable companionship.

Lord Clyme, honorable gentleman that he was, had charged Captain Delverson to inform young Wimberly about the wedding.

Saracens expressed his regard for the most humble merit, by detaining the army at Aleppo till Dames was cured of his honorable wounds.

And at last, when he held up his hands that his bonds might be removed, his emancipator found them scarred with toil unrequited, but free from the blood of man save that shed in open, honorable battle.

It has enabled me to pursue my work steadily ever since, and I am more than happy to testify to the excellent skill and honorable dealings of your faculty and the fine appointments of your Institution.

Kosh had believed him an honorable leader, yet the fabulists were in a difficult position, caught between order and chaos.