last honors
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Thus Nazi Germany last week paid last honors to Ernst Udet, World War I ace, once best of the international aerobats, exponent of parachute troops and glider warfare.
From Time Magazine Archive
It does not of course follow that everywhere the same custom was observed, but we may at least be certain that the priest played an important part in the last honors paid to the dead.
From The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria by Morris Jastrow
None of those high in authority, who had come out to see them give up their lives for their country, were present to pay the last honors to the dead heroes.
From Three Years in the Sixth Corps A Concise Narrative of Events in the Army of the Potomac, from 1861 to the Close of the Rebellion, April, 1865 by George T. Stevens
All down the lane were wagons and carriages and horses, for every body that knew my grandfather had come to pay him the last honors.
From The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 4, November 1, 1851 by Various
It was carried to Stone Chapel, where a multitude collected to pay the last honors to the youthful soldier.
From A Romance of the Republic by Lydia Maria Francis Child
