last offices
Example Sentences
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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
When the last offices were finished, and all the nuns had retired to their cells, an old man came and knelt beside the quiet grave.
From The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 1, August, 1851 by Various
Advowsons are the last offices to retain a proprietary character.
From The English Utilitarians, Volume I. by Stephen, Leslie, Sir
To-day, this day, the sun shining in the sky, they are gone to the desolate sea-coast to perform the last offices to their earthly remains, Hunt, Lord Byron, and Trelawny.
From The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume II (of 2) by Marshall, Florence A. Thomas
