last honors
Example Sentences
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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
Schnetz announced this sorrowful discovery to the dancers, singers, and speakers, with a funereal mien and pathetic earnestness, and summoned them to pay the last honors to the deceased.
From In Paradise A Novel. Vol. I. by Paul Heyse
The last honors were duly paid to the dead King, but the thoughts of all the land were with the young Queen.
From In the Days of Queen Victoria by Eva March Tappan
Each of these kings and princes wished to pay his homage to the Empress Josephine and her daughter, and thereby, in a measure, show the last honors to the dethroned emperor.
From Queen Hortense A Life Picture of the Napoleonic Era by L. (Luise) Mühlbach
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 Berthold Auerbach
