Sentence examples for few honours from inspiring English sources

Although awarded few honours for his fiction, O'Hara was very successful as an author.

He lived behind a veil of privacy with his wife and four children, accepting few honours, giving few interviews and devoting spare time to hiking and sailing.

Few honours were accorded Berg in his lifetime; however, within a few years after his death he had become widely recognized as a composer who broke with tradition and mastered a radical technique and yet blended old and new to create, with Schoenberg and Webern, what became known as the 20th-century (or Second) Viennese school.

An Olympic gold medal is one of the few honours to prove elusive to Cavendish, who was ninth in the 2008 Olympic Madison alongside Sir Bradley Wiggins and 29th in the 2012 road race, on the opening day of London 2012.

Also, few honour killing cases went to court, and this was the first case in which the groom's family in an honour killing filed the case.

Professor of Poetry at Oxford University, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard, Emerson Poet in Residence, also at Harvard, Duff Cooper Memorial Award, American-Irish Foundation Award, Member of Aosdana and the Royal Irish Academy; few available honours, national or international, passed him by.

If that leads to a few more honours getting turned down, perhaps that tells us all we need to know.

He does hold the Order of Merit, one of the very few British honours still untainted by the usual stuff.

She was also one of the few librarians honoured as a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

Even if a cavitated lesion can be treated with a restoration, few patients honour the appointment made.

He said: "Many people are worthy of honours; few get them".