code of honor
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Keitel’s Feraud keeps provoking the feud; Carradine’s D’Hubert recognizes its madness but remains too bound by the same code of honor to walk away.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026
Nicholson leading his fellow prisoners of war in dutiful observance of a wartime code of honor.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 8, 2025
They were often portrayed in films and cartoons as noble outlaws with a code of honor.
From Seattle Times ● May 17, 2024
And the characters’ final showdown is based in a code of honor that recalls that of a samurai.
From New York Times ● Feb. 22, 2023
At the same time, their code of honor would insist that Mrs. Horsepool-Worthingham be forced to call Father herself.
From "The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm" by Nancy Farmer
