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

We cannot fail to respect him while doing him the last honors.

From Lippincott's Magazine, December, 1885 by Various

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 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

These are the last offerings, the last honors she can pay thee; for she is now to be conveyed to a distant country.

From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 7 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Orators by Hubbard, Elbert