field of honour
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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"The wars are the field of honour," returned the old man proudly.
From New Arabian Nights by Stevenson, Robert Louis
The name of a former colonel, Don Pedro Elio, "who died gloriously on the field of honour," like Latour d'Auvergne, first grenadier of France, is also borne on the rolls of the Princess's.
From Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. I) by O'Shea, John Augustus
Ma Cousine,—The Marshal died this morning of the wounds that he received on the field of honour.
From Napoleon's Letters to Josephine by Hall, Henry Foljambe
Trevelyan, Hilaire Belloc, Edward Thomas who died on the field of honour in April, 1917, and Francis Ledwidge, who was killed in Flanders.
From Shandygaff by Morley, Christopher
Thousands of them had fallen on the field of honour, resting with imperishable glory, for them and for us all, in that ancestral land which we, and ever will, cherish.
From England, Canada and the Great War by Desjardins, Louis-Georges
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