amende honorable

Example Sentences

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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

While the United States waited significantly for Germany to make the amende honorable, an internal conflict was proceeding in Berlin over the submarine policy.

From The Story of the Great War, Volume IV (of 8) Champagne, Artois, Grodno; Fall of Nish; Caucasus; Mesopotamia; Development of Air Strategy; United States and the War by Miller, Francis Trevelyan

In due time Douglas Jerrold, as in duty bound, made the amende honorable to the sex he had maligned.

From The History of "Punch" by Spielmann, M. H. (Marion Harry)

I even offered to contribute myself, that it might be taken as an amende honorable on behalf of the English Government.

From The Soul of a People by Fielding, H. (Harold)

The good-natured Irishwoman herself chose to make the amende honorable, but after her own fashion.

From Making People Happy by Fisher, Harrison