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
All the spectators now-pressed about the grave to pay the last honors to the dear departed, and from hundreds of hands fell the earth upon the coffin below.
From Tales from the German. Volume II. The Lichtensteins, The Sorceress, The Anabaptist by Carl Franz van der Velde
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
We cannot fail to respect him while doing him the last honors.
From Lippincott's Magazine, December, 1885 by Various
These are the last offerings, the last honors she can pay thee; for she is now to be conveyed to a distant country.
From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 7 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Orators by Elbert Hubbard
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