honor
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PEYTON’S HONOR: Peyton Manning was honored this week by the March of Dimes as its Sportsman of the Year.
From Washington Times • Dec. 2, 2016
WILLIAMS’ HONOR: Williams anchored a Buffalo defense that allowed just 13 points a game in November, earning the ninth-year pro his first career AFC Player of the Month Award.
From Washington Times • Dec. 6, 2014
COCO'S HONOR, who was claimed for $7,500, won easy in his career debut.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 5, 2011
The West Point creed, "DUTY, HONOR, COUNTRY," is constantly recited but hard to find exercised in the fog of war.
From Time Magazine Archive
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And yet here I am, without a place, or even a friend, starving upon a beggarly twenty pounds a year—not a single sixpence more, upon MY HONOR.
From The Fatal Boots by Thackeray, William Makepeace
Vocabulary lists containing honor
Veterans Day Vocabulary
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A Graduation Lexicon
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"Rikki-Tikki-Tavi" by Rudyard Kipling
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