field of honour
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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"Nay, my Lord Duke," cried the Lady Sybilla, "more than anything on earth I desire to see you bear arms on the field of honour."
From The Black Douglas by Frank Richards
The garden is cut by a long alley which can serve as the field of honour.
From The Idol of Paris by Sarah Bernhardt
But he died the death of a hero on the field of honour, valiantly and in harness.
From In the World War by Ottokar Theobald Otto Maria, Graf Czernin von und zu Chudenitz
Hanson: schooled in the field of honour and patriotism, whose courage has been tried in many a bloody struggle during the Peninsular war, and is attested by the honourable badges that adorn his breast.
From Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada by Henry A. Murray
I call the scaffold the field of honour!
From Historical Miniatures by August Strindberg
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