Most Honourable

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a courtesy title applied to marquesses and members of the Privy Council and the Order of the Bath

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Why should not Aristide, past master in drumming, find an honourable position in the orchestra of the Tournée Gulland?
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I like you the better, Mr Allcraft, for your scruples: you are an honourable man, sir.
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In all letters which the son writes to his father he uses the most exalted titles and honourable phrases he can imagine.
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Once satisfied that it was just and honourable, and it was comparatively child's work to arrange the modus operandi.
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