Which preposition to use with honest
In some countries it might be dangerous, but we are honest in Belgium.
But, seeing we are in the city o' Glasgow in the kindly kingdom o' Scotland, I'll be honest with you.
For then sometimeswhen the coachman obligingly cuts the butler's throat in the back-alley, saywe actually presume to think for a moment that our profession is almost as honest as that of making counterfeit money...."
Honest to God she's not, honey.
Hadn't any idea I possessed two nieces, to be honest about it.
These, however, are the most honest of the opponents of government; their patriotism is a species of disease; and they feel some part of what they express.
You can do as you like, but it's slow and honest for me.
" Honest at the core.
If they are furnished with firearms for defence, and utensils for husbandry, and settled in some simple form of government within the country, they may be more grateful and honest than their masters.
So perfect is the system which is being attempted to be set in force by the new National Agreement that the young man who now essays to play professional Base Ball may be assured of steady advancement in this profession and a generally improving condition if he will be as honest by his employer as he expects his employer to be honest by him.
I believe you must not expect him to be honest on this side of his grand climacteric.
Ain't it odd how fellers fall to thinkin' of thar little women, when they get a quiet spell like this?" "Fortunate for us that we do get it, and have such memories to keep us brave and honest through the trials and temptations of a life like ours.
I should have thought Crinkett might have asked forty thousand; but Crinkett, though he's rough,I do own he's rough,but he's honest after a fashion.
They seem sincerely to have believed that they could, by some form of written words, constrain a people to be honest against their will, and almost as soon as the new government went into operation they tested these beliefs by experiment, with very indifferent success.
But he's too thick with Gladstone to be honest over this.
He's truly prudent who can separate Honest from vile, and still adhere to that; Their difference to measure, and to reach Reason well rectified must Nature teach.
Mr. Moggridge had this great element of refinement, that he thought nothing honest beneath him.
In Italy and Spain they have their stews in every great city, as in Rome, Venice, Florence, wherein, some say, dwell ninety thousand inhabitants, of which ten thousand are courtesans; and yet for all this, every gentleman almost hath a peculiar mistress; fornications, adulteries, are nowhere so common: urbs est jam tota lupanar; how should a man live honest amongst so many provocations?
I heard the law, through its jury, adjudicate between a white man and a black, and sentence the latter to be flogged when the former was guiltyand they who were honest among the jurymen in vain opposed the verdict.