last offices
Example Sentences
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“Acorn and the Firestorm” takes square, belated aim at reviving the reputation of Acorn, which closed its last offices in 2010.
From New York Times • Apr. 5, 2018
Even the woman who performed the last offices for the dead remarked to me, in a confidential, brother-professional way, when she had come out from the death-chamber:—
From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker
As for myself, I said not a word to any of my own family, begging them to excuse me until I had seen the last offices performed to the remains of my friend.
From The Chainbearer Or, The Littlepage Manuscripts by Cooper, James Fenimore
The brethren go about the beds administering the last offices of the Church to the dying.
From The History of London by Besant, Walter, Sir
There are funeral pyres of wood where the relatives are carrying out the last offices for the dead.
From Round the Wonderful World by Forrest, A. S. (Archibald Stevenson)
