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
The German airmen express their regret at having been unable to render the last honors to a valiant enemy.
From Georges Guynemer Knight of the Air by Sill, Louise Morgan
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
Colonel Bronnen had come from the capital to pay the last honors to Eberhard.
From On the Heights A Novel by Auerbach, Berthold
It does not of course follow that everywhere the same custom was observed, but we may at least be certain that the priest played an important part in the last honors paid to the dead.
From The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria by Jastrow, Morris
