amende honorable
Example Sentences
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His party made the amende honorable to Lyndhurst, and went down in a body to back him.
From The Greville Memoirs A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Vol. III by Greville, Charles
The good-natured Irishwoman herself chose to make the amende honorable, but after her own fashion.
From Making People Happy by Fisher, Harrison
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
Whatever it was, and we will let all that go, he made the amende honorable the night we had tea together up there in the great house.
From Hope Mills or, Between Friend and Sweetheart by Douglas, Amanda Minnie
Although not admitting the reason for his conduct, I am strongly convinced that the step is a mere acknowledgment of an error on his part, and an effort, however late, at the amende honorable.
From The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II) by Lever, Charles James
