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 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)
Three days after the fatal night, at nine o'clock in the morning, Hermann repaired to the Convent of ——, where the last honors were to be paid to the mortal remains of the old Countess.
Each of these kings and princes wished to pay his homage to the Empress Josephine and her daughter, and thereby, in a measure, show the last honors to the dethroned emperor.
From Queen Hortense A Life Picture of the Napoleonic Era by Mühlbach, L. (Luise)
His image was carried with great solemnity to a tomb, which served the purpose of rendering him the last honors.
