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
None of those high in authority, who had come out to see them give up their lives for their country, were present to pay the last honors to the dead heroes.
From Three Years in the Sixth Corps A Concise Narrative of Events in the Army of the Potomac, from 1861 to the Close of the Rebellion, April, 1865 by Stevens, George T.
The German airmen express their regret at having been unable to render the last honors to a valiant enemy.
From Georges Guynemer Knight of the Air by Sill, Louise Morgan
It was carried to Stone Chapel, where a multitude collected to pay the last honors to the youthful soldier.
From A Romance of the Republic by Child, Lydia Maria Francis
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
