amende honorable
Example Sentences
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He was conducted by a Garde Bourgeoise to his palace at Versailles, and thus concluded an "amende honorable," as no sovereign ever made, and no people ever received.
From The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. IX (of X) - America - I by Lodge, Henry Cabot
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)
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.
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
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
