Sentence examples for public honour from inspiring English sources

Tsar Ivan IV the Terrible paid him public honour, but his political views were suppressed.

So why is Fox not more naturally a figure of public honour today?

Guarding personal and public honour through collective moral shame was axiomatic, accepted but unspoken.

His funeral was an occasion of public honour, and many miracles were said to have occurred after his death.

Last year, Czech campaigners won him a nomination for the Nobel peace prize, and recently the president announced that he will be awarded their highest public honour, the Order of the White Lion.

And whereas the doors of other houses at that time opened inwards into the vestibule, they made the outer door of his house, and of his alone, to open outwards, in order that by this concession he might be constantly partaking of public honour.

Refusing public honours, he died plain Mr Frank Pick.

Among many other public honours he became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

Sitwell seems to have been a thoroughly complacent man, always hungry for the public honours he considered his due.

Maxwell received no public honours and was buried quietly in a small churchyard in the village of Parton, in Scotland.

Nor did public honours, titles or baubles – all of which were on offer, had he chosen to accept.