field of honour
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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The garden is cut by a long alley which can serve as the field of honour.
From The Idol of Paris by Bernhardt, Sarah
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
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
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
It might mean the news of the "death on the field of honour" of an only son.
From The Story of Mankind by Van Loon, Hendrik Willem
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