honour
The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
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honour the post of honour is the post of danger to be put in a position where one is likely to be assailed is to have one's value recognized; proverbial saying, mid 16th century.
there is honour among thieves proverbial saying, early 19th century, sometimes used ironically; the concept is found in an early 17th-century source, ‘Thieves have between themselves, a truth, and faith, which they keep firm.’
See also
debt of honour,
honours,
peace with honour,
a prophet is not without honour save in his own country.
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Dorchester Hugoton, Ltd., Republic Royalty Company, Spinnaker Royalty Company, L.P. and Dorchester Minerals, L.P. Announce Proxy/Prospectus Supplement And Anticipated Combination Closing Date.
PR Newswire; 1/24/2003; 700+ words
; Dorchester Hugoton, Ltd. , Republic Royalty Company, Spinnaker Royalty Company, L.P. and Dorchester Minerals, L.P. announced today the filing of Dorchester Minerals' Supplement No. 2 to Proxy Statement...
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Dorchester Hugoton, Ltd. Announces Successful Unitholder Vote to Combine Into Dorchester Minerals, L. P. and Estimate of Liquidating Distribution.
PR Newswire; 1/29/2003; 700+ words
; Dorchester Hugoton, Ltd. announced today the...Texas. Units representing 81% of Dorchester Hugoton's total outstanding units...the proposed combination. Holders of Dorchester Hugoton's units will not have dissenter...
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Dorchester Hugoton, Ltd. and Spinnaker Royalty Company, L.P. Special Meetings Scheduled for December 30, 2002 Will Be Adjourned Until January 29, 2003.
PR Newswire; 12/27/2002; 700+ words
; Dorchester Hugoton, Ltd. announced today that the Special...consider and vote upon the proposed combination of Dorchester Hugoton, Republic Royalty Company, and Spinnaker into Dorchester Minerals, L.P., a new publicly traded limited...
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Dorchester Hugoton, Ltd. Announces Agreement to Combine.
PR Newswire; 12/14/2001; 700+ words
; DALLAS -- Dorchester Hugoton, Ltd. announced today the signing of...formed, publicly traded limited partnership called Dorchester Minerals, L.P. As previously announced, Dorchester Minerals will result from the nontaxable combination...
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Dorchester Gas Corp. to defend itself against counterclaims by Damson Oil.
PR Newswire; 2/8/1984; 700+ words
; ...PRNewswire/ -- In response to inquiries, Dorchester Gas Corporation (AMEX: DGS) today...Corporation and a class action suit related to Dorchester's proxy solicitation materials mailed...about Nov. 15, 1983 in connection with Dorchester's 1983 annual meeting. The Damson...
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Dorchester presents its past Group looks to history and other charms to change vile image to `village'
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 5/17/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...maintain, the Nixon neighborhood is Dorchester -- maligned and misunderstood. Granted...news -- Roxbury, for example. But Dorchester, with the biggest chunk of the city...time local booster. They're touting Dorchester as a tourist mecca. They want to create...
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Dorchester Pacific and St Laurence consider merging
Newspaper article from: The Press; 3/29/2007; ; 552 words
; Finance companies St Laurence and Dorchester Pacific are talking about a potential...each other in a $29.6 million deal. Dorchester said last night it was buying 25 per...and through the issue of 4.77m new Dorchester shares at a value of $2.05 a share...
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Dorchester Pop Warner squad involved in brawl
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 12/13/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...tournaments in the country this week, the Dorchester Eagles Pop Warner football team got...the fight started Thursday when the Dorchester Eagles assaulted players for the Edgewood...and Providence. Terry Cousin, Dorchester's coach, acknowledged that about...
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Dorchester Group Announces Management Changes.
PR Newswire; 4/26/2004; 700+ words
; ...Board of Directors of the London-based Dorchester Group announced major management changes today. The Dorchester Group is the London-based hotel property...June 2003 was a turning point for the Dorchester Group, which now owns five hotels with...
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Dorchester Minerals, L. P. Announces Closing of Combination Transaction And Initiation of Trading on the Nasdaq.
PR Newswire; 1/31/2003; 700+ words
; Dorchester Minerals, L. P. announced today that...announced combination transaction among Dorchester Minerals, L. P., Republic Royalty...Spinnaker Royalty Company, L.P., and Dorchester Hugoton, Ltd. have been taken and...
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Dorchester Company
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
DORCHESTER COMPANY DORCHESTER COMPANY. Certain English merchants, having ships sailing from...planting corn. The Reverend John White, rector of Holy Trinity, Dorchester, England, was a prime mover in this enterprise. While at Oxford...
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Dorchester
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Dorchester , town (1991 pop. 13,734), county seat of Dorset, S central England. Dorchester is a busy agricultural market, especially...in prehistoric times. In Roman times, Dorchester was called Durnovaria; Maumbury Rings...
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Dorchester-on-Thames, diocese of
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History
Dorchester-on-Thames, diocese of. First created in c. 635 as the see of Birinus...from the 8th-cent. Danish invasions. As the Danelaw was reconquered, Dorchester extended its authority to the Humber; c. 1072 the see was moved to Lincoln...
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Dorchester, Oxon
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church
Dorchester, Oxon. In 635 St Oswald , King of Northumbria, and Cynegils, King of the West Saxons, concurred in establishing it as a see...
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Dorchester Heights
Book article from: The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military
Dorchester Heights an elevated area south of (and today part of) Boston, Massachusetts, that was stealthily fortified by troops under...
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