field of honour
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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His attentions to Miss Flack at a race ball were such that her father said De Mogyns must either die on the field of honour, or become his son-in-law.
From The Book of Snobs by Thackeray, William Makepeace
Well, miscreant, are you prepared to meet me on the field of honour?
From The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan by Gilbert, W. S. (William Schwenck), Sir
"At least stop and see how a Marshal of France dies on the field of honour," he calls.
From The Bronze Eagle A Story of the Hundred Days by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness
He is therefore by blood fit to meet in the field of honour the grandson of a—Nobody.
From The Four Canadian Highwaymen or, The Robbers of Markham Swamp by Collins, J. E. (Joseph Edmund)
The viceroy’s secretary, when challenged by a disappointed applicant for place, deemed it necessary to go to the field of honour.
From Irish History and the Irish Question by Smith, Goldwin
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