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

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.

With the long-haired, wonderfully-robed priest came his choir and many villagers, who occupied one side of the square made by the soldiers standing there in the dusk to do last honors to their dead comrades.

From The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919 by Jahns, Lewis E.

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

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.