If he saw and followed me, it was for a most honorable purpose-honorably, but, oh, most cruelly carried out.
"Wives and Widows; or The Broken Life"
Ann S. Stephens
Young Bosworth has proposed to Jessie and been rejected; I am sure of this, though she is honorably reticent, and Miss Hyde refuses to speak.
"Wives and Widows; or The Broken Life"
Ann S. Stephens
But the tide which had so long flowed in his favor now turned, and for the few remaining years of his life set as steadily against him; yet at no time of his long public career did he stand forth as honorably and prominently as during his last days, when he was showing so stern a front to his victorious foes.
"Thomas Hart Benton"
Theodore Roosevelt