(Count of the Holy Roman Empire, Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Brazen Crown, Perpetual Arch-Master of the Rosicrucian Masons of Mesopotamia; Attached (in
Honorary Capacities) to Societies Musical, Societies Medical, Societies Philosophical, and Societies General Benevolent, throughout Europe; etc.
The erudite gentleman in whom I confided congealed before I was half through!--it is all that saved him from exploding--and my dreams of an
Honorary Fellowship, gold medals, and a niche in the Hall of Fame faded into the thin, cold air of his arctic atmosphere.
We do not include in this inquiry many of those who acquire this appellation out of the ordinary way, as
honorary persons, for instance, but those only who have a natural right to it.
Latin from the books of the Laws of England, which taken along with the context, means, that of all whales captured by anybody on the coast of that land, the King, as
Honorary Grand Harpooneer, must have the head, and the Queen be respectfully presented with the tail.
It was united by long tradition to the Cathedral: its headmaster was an
honorary Canon, and a past headmaster was the Archdeacon.
He was given
honorary degrees by learned universities, and he made speeches and talked of Hindu social reform to English ladies in evening dress, till all London cried, "This is the most fascinating man we have ever met at dinner since cloths were first laid."
"
Honorary," muttered the Assistant Commissioner through his teeth.
In that case, let it be understood that I am
Honorary Physician to the family.' The warm-hearted old man talks of getting me another portrait to do.
But she was brought back to her former mood by the shimmer of the sunshine on the weapons and bright armour of the military company, which followed after the music, and formed the
honorary escort of the procession.
“He was reared in the family of my grandfather; served him for many years during their campaigns at the West, where he became attached to the woods; and he was left here as a kind of locum tenens on the lands that old Mohegan (whose life my grandfather once saved) induced the Delawares to grant to him when they admitted him as an
honorary member of their tribe.
He received
honorary degrees, first from Dublin and then from Oxford, so that he became Dr.
Selfridge Merry, installed in the
honorary arm-chairs tacitly reserved for them, paused to listen to the younger man's philippic.