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
All the spectators now-pressed about the grave to pay the last honors to the dear departed, and from hundreds of hands fell the earth upon the coffin below.
From Tales from the German. Volume II. The Lichtensteins, The Sorceress, The Anabaptist by Velde, Carl Franz van der
Polybius boasts greatly of these last honors paid to illustrious citizens.
From The Wonders of Pompeii by Monnier, Marc
All the inhabitants of the country round of his rank were present; even Count L---- came to show Felix the last honors.
From Felix Lanzberg's Expiation by Schubin, Ossip
All down the lane were wagons and carriages and horses, for every body that knew my grandfather had come to pay him the last honors.
From The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 4, November 1, 1851 by Various
