What is "honoured"

Usage examples of "honoured".

Or does he not perceive, that these topics are easily retorted, and that Anthropomorphite is an appellation as invidious, and implies as dangerous consequences, as the epithet of Mystic, with which he has honoured us?

The next afternoon, Miss Mallow was honoured once again with a call from Dammler.

For to be that, one had at least to recognize the difference between morality and blessedness, which our honoured illuminant and monist most certainly did not!

HONOURED MADAM, The occasion of my writing this will perhaps make a letter of mine agreeable to my dear aunt, for the sake of one of her nieces, though I have little reason to hope it will be so on the account of another.

I am now rich, honoured, high in the favour of courts, and not altogether unknown or unesteemed arbitrio popularis aurae: and yet I almost think I was happier when, in that flush of youth and inexperience, I looked forth into the wide world, and imagined that from every corner would spring up a triumph for my vanity or an object for my affections.

Miss Agatha Girton, who lived there, unhonoured and unloved, with her ward, whom the village honoured and loved without exception.

It was a Persic and Babylonish Deity, as well as an Armenian, which was honoured with Puratheia, where the rites of fire were particularly kept up.

The professor was a musician and a scholar and Barberton prison was honoured to have him.

Hanuman had heard that Master Bardo was not an easy man to serve, and he wondered why he had been so honoured.

I asked him immediately if I had made a foolish bargain with the man, but Equus assured me that the bargain would be met and honoured.

The only consolation he had was that his great friends were kinder to him than ever, and the king himself honoured him with peculiar attention.

Know, then, that among this people there is great reverence for the growing of hair, and he that is hairiest is honoured most, wherefore are barbers creatures of especial abhorrence, and of a surety flourish not.

She honoured Tom Jones, and scorned Master Blifil, almost as soon as she knew the meaning of those two words.

Soon none of the other concubines he had brought with him from Omdurman were honoured by a summons to his private quarters.

With his tin box under his arm, and his butterfly net in his hand, and his huge magnifying-glass suspended from his neck, he would be sometimes far ahead, sometimes a long way behind, and at the risk of being attacked by some venomous snake, would make frantic dashes into the tall grass whenever he espied some attractive orthoptera or other insect which he thought might be honoured by a place in his collection.