Word: honi
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...deep a hue to be dissolved by any pigment, whether it be red or merely a rosy pink. So until New England has forgotten the strain of her ancestors, the persecutors of Hester Prynne, she will continue to confuse issues and to forget, the phrase on the cacutcheon--"Honi Soit Qui Mal Y Pense...
...doctor, a first class physician, was called. He did not criticise the parents for calling the other. He simply said: "Dr. Jones knows something about the disease he thinks is afflicting little Freddie ; but he doesn't know Freddie." And Freddie was an important factor in the case. Honi soit qui mal y pense. Perhaps Mr. Hibben knows much, very much, about the weakness he ascribes to Henry Ward Beecher; he certainly does not know Mr. Beecher...
They some deep stuff in it an' I don't git it all. For instunce, it sez inside, Honi soit qui mal Y pense, which is woise then th' way I spell...
...however, had foreborne to blush on the occasion when the jest was unconsciously perpetrated. Facetious despatches opined that he may have gained fortitude from a consciousness of his right to the motto which encircles his left calf whenever he dons the famed insignia? of the Order of The Garter: "Honi soit qui mal y pense." At any rate he stood at ease, with royal dignity, as those approached who were to confer upon him "the legal right to practice medicine, midwifery and surgery...
...remarkable how the mind of the modern generation is kept pure and unsullied, and all indecencies removed far beyond it reach. When the act of sending a copy of Rabelais through the postoffice will finally be made illegal, we shall have reached the acme of perfection. The motto "Honi Soit--" is out of date, anyway...