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In reply to this I told Rossetti that, as a "jealous honourer" of his, I confessed to some uneasiness when I read that he had been making important additions to Sister Helen.

From Recollections of Dante Gabriel Rossetti by Caine, Hall, Sir

Amongst whom, if I make your lordship the first it thanks, it is not without a just, confession of the bond your benefits have, and ever shall hold upon me, Your lordship's most faithful honourer.

From Sejanus: His Fall by Jonson, Ben

I cast myself as an honourer of Thee at thy feet.

From Mysteries of the Rosie Cross Or, the History of that Curious Sect of the Middle Ages, Known as the Rosicrucians; with Examples of their Pretensions and Claims as Set Forth in the Writings of Their Leaders and Disciples by Anonymous

He ceased to be a faithful friend, an open-hearted pleasant companion, a chivalric and gallant honourer of ladies.

From The Serapion Brethren. Vol. II by Hoffmann, Ernst Theordor Wilhelm

Amonge whome Socrates that great begynner and honourer of wysdom began to dispute of ye maners of men.

From The Ship of Fools, Volume 1 by Barclay, Alexander