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
I came back, then, to my native town, to pay the last honors to my good old father.
From In Paradise A Novel. Vol. I. by Heyse, Paul
He had to lead the soldier's association, which had decided to go in a body and pay the last honors to the last Master of Justice.
From Landolin by Auerbach, Berthold
No further offerings or libations expect from me; these are the last honors that Cleopatra can pay your memory, for she is to be hurried away far from you.
From Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans by Clough, Arthur Hugh
Military and ecclesiastical pomp were combined with the magnificent ceremonial of the Austrian court for the purpose of rendering the last honors to the dead prelate.
From The Secret Memoirs of the Courts of Europe: William II, Germany; Francis Joseph, Austria-Hungary, Volume I. (of 2) by Fontenoy, Mme. la Marquise de
