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
Polybius boasts greatly of these last honors paid to illustrious citizens.
From The Wonders of Pompeii by Monnier, Marc
The fellows seemed to have some affection for their dead comrade, and wished to show it by putting him underground, and doing the last honors.
From The American Baron by De Mille, James
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
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
