last offices

Even the woman who performed the last offices for the dead remarked to me, in a confidential, brother-professional way, when she had come out from the death-chamber:—

“Acorn and the Firestorm” takes square, belated aim at reviving the reputation of Acorn, which closed its last offices in 2010.

It is inscribed with words written in 1857 by The Times' Crimean War correspondent, Sir William Howard Russell: "I trust that England will not forget one who nursed her sick, who sought out her wounded to aid and succour them, and who performed the last offices for some of her illustrious dead."

Except for their non-hereditability, these last offices were to all intents and purposes satrapies.

Bent upon rendering the last offices to her daughter, she was long occupied in combing out her beautiful black hair; she dressed the body in her best clothes, and laid it out with the hands crossed over the breast, as Jos�phe had been used to carry them when asleep.