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
The brethren go about the beds administering the last offices of the Church to the dying.
From The History of London by Besant, Walter, Sir
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
Gerard did the last offices of the Church for the departed, just as he should have done them for his smallest parishioner.
From The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages by Reade, Charles
