last offices
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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
Two of these were beautiful young girls who, in default of priest, were saying the last offices of the Church as they knelt on the bare ground.
From Orphans of the Storm by Henry MacMahon
The Christians were victorious; and La Valette had the melancholy satisfaction of rendering the last offices to the remains of his gallant kinsman.
From History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain, Vols. 1 and 2 by William Hickling Prescott
I could not divest my mind of the impression that some power, higher than mere chance, had led me to the spot to perform those last offices to the poor outcast.
From Confessions Of Con Cregan An Irish Gil Blas by Charles James Lever
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