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

Colonel Bronnen had come from the capital to pay the last honors to Eberhard.

From On the Heights A Novel by Auerbach, Berthold

With the long-haired, wonderfully-robed priest came his choir and many villagers, who occupied one side of the square made by the soldiers standing there in the dusk to do last honors to their dead comrades.

From The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919 by Jahns, Lewis E.

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

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