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 last honors were duly paid to the dead King, but the thoughts of all the land were with the young Queen.
From In the Days of Queen Victoria by Tappan, Eva March
Military and ecclesiastical pomp were combined with the magnificent ceremonial of the Austrian court for the purpose of rendering the last honors to the dead prelate.
From The Secret Memoirs of the Courts of Europe: William II, Germany; Francis Joseph, Austria-Hungary, Volume I. (of 2) by Fontenoy, Mme. la Marquise de
It was a great relief to him that General De Bougy arrived toward evening to pay the last honors to his deceased nephew.
From Harper's Young People, December 30, 1879 An Illustrated Weekly by Various
Night after night his house and his garden were visited by strange apparitions, till the palace was destroyed by fire and the emperor's sisters rendered the last honors to his remains.
From Modern Magic by Vere, Maximilian Schele de
