The leaders of the program had told him that human treachery made true honorable combat with them impossible.

He had killed a chancellor in honorable combat and named his successor.

Why didn't you call him out in honorable combat, Charissa?

"Or are those the scars of honorable combat, gained in defending your virtue?"

By right, we have reclaimed it in honorable combat.

This is a battle wound," he said, "gained in honorable combat.

He would have never dreamed of challenging Abrena for the leader- ship in honorable combat.

Better to die in honorable combat than to succumb to a disease, he thought with a nod.

He wouldn't use the pretense of honorable combat to hide the fact that he was stealing.

After all, the boy was too young and inexperienced to have a chance to kill his enemies in honorable combat.