amende honorable

Example Sentences

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I never dined like that before or after, not even a week later, when Dr. V�ron and Sophie made the amende honorable in the Rue Taitbout.

From An Englishman in Paris Notes and Recollections by Albert D.

If so, I make amende honorable of all that I said up to this minute.

From Diary from March 4, 1861, to November 12, 1862 by De Gurowski, Adam G., count

Dee was convinced and offered the amende honorable, confessing herself beaten in argument.

From At Boarding School with the Tucker Twins by Speed, Nell

As early, therefore, as I have the opportunity of doing it, I make the amende honorable to my readers for having unwittingly misled them on this point.

From The Well in the Desert An Old Legend of the House of Arundel by Irwin, M. (Madelaine)

Come down, sole ally and accomplice of my heinous vanity, and plead for me, and make the amende honorable to this grim guardian of Miss Muriel’s peace!”

From Vashti or, Until Death Us Do Part by Wilson, Augusta J. Evans