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
No further offerings or libations expect from me; these are the last honors that Cleopatra can pay your memory, for she is to be hurried away far from you.
From Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans by Clough, Arthur Hugh
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
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)
Every mortal longs for his parade-place, and some earlier living honor than the last honors.
From The Campaner Thal and Other Writings by Jean Paul
