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

Axel arrived three days after, having travelled by extra post, too late to hear the last words of his father, but not too late to render the last honors to his remains.

From Seed-time and Harvest A Novel by Reuter, Fritz

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

I grieve that I shall not see the last honors, yet I hardly know how I could have gone through the scene.

From Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume 6 by Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson)

While they were busy Mary Magdalene went out to the centurion and said to him: "May we not even pay the last honors to our friend?"

From King of the Jews A story of Christ's last days on Earth by Stead, William T.