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
In other words, one could easily have pictured the man as performing in a most impressive manner the last offices needed by man here below.
From The Red Mouse by Osborne, William Hamilton
The old trainer had been a good Catholic all his life, and he received the last offices of his faith.
From Taking Chances by Cullen, Clarence L.
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 MacMahon, Henry
