last offices
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“Acorn and the Firestorm” takes square, belated aim at reviving the reputation of Acorn, which closed its last offices in 2010.
From New York Times ● Apr. 5, 2018
Even the woman who performed the last offices for the dead remarked to me, in a confidential, brother-professional way, when she had come out from the death-chamber:—
From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker
Two of these were beautiful young girls who, in default of priest, were saying the last offices of the Church as they knelt on the bare ground.
From Orphans of the Storm by Henry MacMahon
The brethren go about the beds administering the last offices of the Church to the dying.
From The History of London by Sir Walter Besant
My cup of sorrow was full to the brim.—With anguish too deep for tears, I performed the last offices of love for my darling.
From Jasper Lyle by Harriet Ward
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