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
No further offerings or libations expect from me; these are the last honors that Cleopatra can pay your memory, for she is to be hurried away far from you.
From Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans by Clough, Arthur Hugh
None of those high in authority, who had come out to see them give up their lives for their country, were present to pay the last honors to the dead heroes.
From Three Years in the Sixth Corps A Concise Narrative of Events in the Army of the Potomac, from 1861 to the Close of the Rebellion, April, 1865 by Stevens, George T.
Schnetz announced this sorrowful discovery to the dancers, singers, and speakers, with a funereal mien and pathetic earnestness, and summoned them to pay the last honors to the deceased.
From In Paradise A Novel. Vol. I. by Heyse, Paul
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
