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
The fellows seemed to have some affection for their dead comrade, and wished to show it by putting him underground, and doing the last honors.
From The American Baron by De Mille, James
Polybius boasts greatly of these last honors paid to illustrious citizens.
From The Wonders of Pompeii by Monnier, Marc
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
It was the most magnificent funeral one can imagine, the last honors paid in all their vain pomp, as sonorous and as hollow as the rhythmic accompaniment upon asses' skins draped in crape.
From The Nabob, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Ives, George Burnham
