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

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)

Colonel Bronnen had come from the capital to pay the last honors to Eberhard.

From On the Heights A Novel by Auerbach, Berthold

I came back, then, to my native town, to pay the last honors to my good old father.

From In Paradise A Novel. Vol. I. by Heyse, Paul

While they were busy Mary Magdalene went out to the centurion and said to him: "May we not even pay the last honors to our friend?"

From King of the Jews A story of Christ's last days on Earth by Stead, William T.