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
Axel arrived three days after, having travelled by extra post, too late to hear the last words of his father, but not too late to render the last honors to his remains.
From Seed-time and Harvest A Novel by Reuter, Fritz
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
It was the most magnificent funeral one can imagine, the last honors paid in all their vain pomp, as sonorous and as hollow as the rhythmic accompaniment upon asses' skins draped in crape.
From The Nabob, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Ives, George Burnham
They prescribed medicine; they formed the youth; they paid the last honors to the dead; they foretold events; they exercised themselves in magic.
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 07 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund
