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
No, he dared not refuse the last offices which were claimed thus solemnly.
From The Curse of Koshiu A Chronicle of Old Japan by Wingfield, Lewis
They had made a grave for the little one of their flock, and had gathered around it to do the last offices to the inanimate form.
From Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 5 November 1848 by Various
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)
