field of honour
Britishnoun
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For a soldier coming home from the gory field of honour might speak to his wife of his wounds and his deserts, but I?
From Dr. Dumany's Wife by Mór Jókai
I call the scaffold the field of honour!
From Historical Miniatures by August Strindberg
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 William Makepeace Thackeray
Did Gabriel even assume a virtue, and under the pretext of an injured husband challenge the victim to the field of honour?
From Gabriel Conroy by Bert Harte
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 J. E. (Joseph Edmund) Collins
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