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
When the last offices were finished, and all the nuns had retired to their cells, an old man came and knelt beside the quiet grave.
From The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 1, August, 1851 by Various
Even in articulo mortis he refused to receive the sacraments from the parish priest at the cost of submission, but the last offices were performed by his friend Professor Friedrich.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 6 "Dodwell" to "Drama" by Various
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
