It would make an honorable alternative to the omelet cart that has stood at the front door of the New York Stock Exchange for years.
In the street, asking someone the way to somewhere, he would receive a reply which left him no honorable alternative except to challenge his interlocutor to a duel.
They saw us as an honorable and legitimate alternative and we welcomed their skills, although perhaps we were overhasty in several cases.
Yet without Sarakos free to indulge his bloodlust and treachery, might not more of the men of Drantos have seen surrender as an honorable alternative?
Deslucido was offering her an honorable alternative to execution or exile.
Worf had told him how Klingons imprisoned by their enemies often chose suicide as an honorable alternative to captivity.
"It was an honorable alternative," he said.
With -upper-class boys growing up ready to marry a new pool of upper-class, unbound girls, there was now an honorable alternative, and the practice essentially disappeared within a generation.
In many cultures and civilizations, "begging" is considered an acceptable and honorable alternative to work when it is due to necessity or religious abstention from economic activity.
Buckley may have felt he'd dishonored his hero even as poor loyal Oakes was, yes, yes already, out there promoting the honorable alternative.