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
It was Mrs. Jarvis who had performed the last offices, who had supplied what information she could to the doctor and the coroner, and had indeed been one of the principal witnesses at the inquest.
From A Fortunate Term by Brazil, Angela
Mrs. Jarvis, the village nurse, had performed the last offices.
From A Fortunate Term by Brazil, Angela
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)
