last honors
Example Sentences
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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
I came back, then, to my native town, to pay the last honors to my good old father.
From In Paradise A Novel. Vol. I. by Heyse, Paul
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.
The fellows seemed to have some affection for their dead comrade, and wished to show it by putting him underground, and doing the last honors.
From The American Baron by De Mille, James
He had to lead the soldier's association, which had decided to go in a body and pay the last honors to the last Master of Justice.
From Landolin by Auerbach, Berthold
