How To Use Embalm In A Sentence

The only evidence even remotely suggesting that Persians mummified their dead is from the fifth century B.C. Greek historian Herodotus, who wrote that Persians "embalmed" their dead in wax. Archive 2008-01-01
Blair's answer should be embalmed in the Labour party constitution, perhaps as a better substitute for the old clause four.
I identified the frightful ingredients masking the mixtures of tannin and powdered carbon with which the fish was embalmed; and I penetrated the disguise of the marinated meats, painted with sauces the colour of sewage; and I diagnosed the wine as being coloured with fuscin, perfumed with furfurol, and enforced with molasses and plaster. Là-bas
Embalmers are advised of the protective clothing required both for handling the chemicals and the deceased persons themselves.
‘But, if the body was dissected, it could not be treated with embalming fluids at all,’ Chen said.

Tromp would maunder over and over of how Johannes Maartens and the cunies robbed the kings on Tabong Mountain, each embalmed in his golden coffin with an embalmed maid on either side; and of how these ancient proud ones crumbled to dust within the hour while the cunies cursed and sweated at junking the coffins. Chapter 15
Kristen Chenoweth could totally play Makino, the embalmer. February « 2010 « The Manga Curmudgeon
The most interesting part of your post Bock was that Magee called the embalmer and not the police when JPI died. Irish Blogs
He said it had been difficult because the body had been embalmed.
I was so rudely interrupted, the one thing only that can balm and embalm this savage breast is the ‘Maiden’s CHAPTER III
A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life. John Milton
“Mr. Ah Cum, Jr., deserves to have his name embalmed in history.” The Romance of China: Excursions to China in U.S. Culture: 1776-1876
In books, are embalmed the greatest thoughts of all ages.
Before the Macedonian conqueror passed away, he left detailed funeral instructions, including - among other things - that he be embalmed in honey through a process known as "mellification. NPR Topics: News
Scoffing at the suggestion that an undertaker is a "professional man," Chambers said any good plumber could learn how to embalm in sixty days. The Undertaker's Racket
The catacombs, and the lovingly tended graves within, have embalmed the lives and loves of centuries past in a deathly stillness, broken only by the babble of a passing brook.
As he stood up to leave, Digger came in, fresh from embalming a corpse, rubber gloves in hand.
A timepiece of striated Connemara marble, stopped at the hour of 4.46 a.m. on the 21 March 1896, matrimonial gift of Matthew Dillon: a dwarf tree of glacial arborescence under a transparent bellshade, matrimonial gift of Luke and Caroline Doyle: an embalmed owl, matrimonial gift of Ulysses
You may be surprised to learn that embalming is almost nevcr required for the deceased. Boing Boing
Relying on an embalming technique called “plastination,” which preserves human organs by the infusion of various silicons and epoxies, Body Worlds has been seen by more than thirty million people, many of them paying as much as forty dollars per admission. The Lampshade
The Apis bull, a sacred animal to the Egyptians, came to be known as the incarnation of Osiris, god of embalming and cemeteries.
Such anecdotes illuminate the dry facts and dates in which the past was formerly embalmed.
Soon after that was embalmed the idea of non-standard models emerged.
Hunderthunder!) from grosskopp to megapod, embalmed, of grand age, rich in death anticipated. Finnegans Wake
A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life. John Milton
Stow stated that the victorious Earl of Surrey took the king's corpse - which he had embalmed - to a monastery in Surrey as a prize to show his monarch, Henry VIII.
For example. subtopics include: animal grooming. taxidermy. embalming. electrolysis. nail technician. culinary arts. wine steward and server. among others.
He seemed puffy, like he'd been pumped full of embalming fluid.
Some rather solid-sounding sounding justifications for the procedure have been advanced, above and beyond the fact that embalming is good business for the undertaker because it helps him to sell more expensive caskets. The Undertaker's Racket
In accordance with custom, the casket remains closed and there is no embalming or cosmetology performed.
The smug and superior manner in which the rest of the country has embalmed the region in the 1960s, so as to better patronize it, has echoes of Europeans on an anti-American binge.
Discussion of the best or most accessible vein is strikingly similar to embalmers' discussions about arterial accessibility.
When she died, her body was laid to rest before the high alter and a casket containing her husband's embalmed heart was placed beside her.
Less than two weeks after its release, ‘Brokeback Mountain’ is already on the verge of being embalmed in importance.
In books, are embalmed the greatest thoughts of all ages.
Video evidence of the event shows Keith looking sick to his stomach and cackling like a hyena at the absurdity of his mission, and doing it right in the heavily-bearded faces of the band he was to induct into this laughing stock of an embalming center. James Campion: Why the F#@! Isn't Kiss in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame?
In Malta when a person died they were usually buried within 24 hours, and very few people were embalmed.
The theory that embalming is an essential hygienic measure has long been put forward by the funeral industry. The Undertaker's Racket
The King soon afterward expired; and his heart was taken out from his body and embalmed, that is, prepared with spices and perfumes, that it might remain a long time fresh and uncorrupted. Heroes Every Child Should Know
Shakespeare to glorify the name of Cranmer or to deify the names of the queen then dead and the king yet living, it is but natural that he should be induced by an unconscious bias or prepossession of the will to depreciate the worth of the verse sent on work fitter for ushers and embalmers and the general valetry or varletry of Church and State. A Study of Shakespeare
He tries to form a mental picture of Frankie embalming the widow's husband, washing the old man's body with germicidal soap, draining his blood and replacing it with embalming fluid to preserve the tissues. FUNERAL
The family undertakers receive the remains and prepare them, lovingly beautifying them in the white-tiled basement embalming room for the reassurance of the people left behind.
His reputation is embalmed, still, in the romantic notions inflicted upon it by his early, maudlin admirers.
Time shall embalm and magnify her name.
Embalming required 40 days (although this was an Egyptian custom, the Egyptians recognized the period of 40 for the preparation of going into a new life, what they called the afterlife) (Gen 50: 3 KJV) And forty days were fulfilled for him; for so are fulfilled the days of those which are embalmed: and the Egyptians mourned for him threescore and ten days. British Blogs
When ‘the big boys’ took over in 1989 she decided to leave and started working as a trade embalmer travelling the country to carry out the task for undertakers who did not have their own staff.
The art historian Sydney Freedberg thinks that Parmigianino had fully explored a certain style in the painting, so that it was "embalmed" or "entombed" and he didn't want to return to it. James Elkins: Using Google Art To Explore Famous, Unfinished Paintings
Formaldehyde is used widely as a tissue preservative in pathology laboratories and embalming services.
The term "institute" and "college" have been applied to schools for auto mechanics, television repairman, barbers embalmers and others.
Otherwise, funeral parlors embalm and show the body.
And I don't want to be embalmed on some literary pedestal.
The Longhua Funeral Home has set up a department especially for foreigners, which helps to embalm and pack the corpses and deal with the procedures required to transport them from the country.
I am by no means out of sympathy with this point of view: embalming is doubtless an honourable profession, but it is not a calling towards which I find myself strongly drawn.
But Mr Lenkiewicz refused to disclose where the body was kept, saying it was the tramp's wish that his body should be embalmed and preserved.
Moreover, they offer gifts in keeping with Christ's greatness: "gold, as to the great King; they offer up incense as to God, because it is used in the Divine Sacrifice; and myrrh, which is used in embalming the bodies of the dead, is offered as to Him who is to die for the salvation of all" (Gregory, Hom. x in Evang.). Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition
But by the time they came to embalm the nation thirty years later, each eliminated virtually any reference to its external record from their retrospections.
However, this part of the team believes it also possible, although less likely, that this fracture was caused by the embalmers.
In short, what with undertakers, embalmers, joiners, sextons and your damned elegy hawkers, I got not one wink of sleep.
a war named after him and so succeeded in having his name embalmed in history; Pontiac, whose great conspiracy Parkman has made immortal, and Tecumseh. Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 2 of 8 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History
But, while it is well known that the dead admiral's body was pickled in brandy on board the Victory to allow a state funeral, it has emerged that his embalmer was Mary Buick, a woman seafarer from Dundee.
The fate of Lenin was even more terrible - his remains were embalmed and his theoretical legacy was falsified and remade into a bureaucratically sanctioned state religion.
Its compelling first page draws you in to the strange world of Wilbur McCrum, dispossessed anti-hero extraordinaire and his outrageous adventures through cowboy country, meeting with tarts, religious swindlers, bank robbers, bounty hunters and freak shows, grappling with the problem of his great love, Ida May, who is dead and embalmed but being carted around by Wilbur. Readers recommend their favourite books of 2010
Against her: Brad, and viewers alike, may be freaked-out by her profession as a funeral home director and embalmer. The Bachelor Final Four: Who Will Advance to the Fantasy Dates?
To make sure that their bodies would be dead before burial, some people requested that they be cremated or embalmed.
Then embalm the ‘peace process’ indefinitely.
While the embalmed heart was returned to the chest of the deceased, the other organs were separately packaged, coffined, and stored.
Until she and Antony lay fully embalmed within it, an aperture would remain high on the door wall, reached by scaffolding made from withies; a winch and a long roomy basket enabled persons and items to be conveyed in and out of the interior. Antony and Cleopatra
Tap dancers as entertainment falls somewhere between colonic irrigation and embalming.
In the first place, the embalmer was a medical practitioner, and legally pursued his craft. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 455 Volume 18, New Series, September 18, 1852
cerement," the cloth dipped "in melting wax, in which dead bodies were enfolded when embalmed" (_Hamlet_, act i.sc. 4), but the sense of the passage seems rather to point to "cerecloth," "searcloth," a plaster to cover up a wound. The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 2
Based on the research, this paper give four kinds of prevention and cure methods, discuss the reinforce scheme and put forward that embalmment...
And they're not embalmed, just killed and incinerated.
A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life. John Milton
The body of Pope John XXIII, who died in 1963 and like John Paul is also one step away from sainthood, was placed in a glass coffin and moved upstairs in 2001; his intact embalmed body was found to be "incorrupt," or free from decay. There's A Good Reason Why Benedict's Not An Organ Donor
She nonchalantly wrote, “Deep under them both is solid blue clay, embalming the fossil horse and fossil ox and the great mastodon, the same preserving blue clay that was dug up to wrap the head of the Big Harp in bandit days, no less a monstrous thing when carried in for reward.” Archive 2009-04-01
With all the talk about health care reform, no one has yet to point a finger at the food industry which has created snacks and foods so full of preservatives and chemicals and sugars that you can self embalm before you die. The Mature Trail Rider | myFiveBest
(I mean the law Epopoeian), and devolveth upon the poet as his property, who may take him and deal with him as if he had been dead as long as an old Egyptian hero; that is to say, embowel and embalm him for posterity. The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 2
An undertaker came to the house to embalm him, and then he was to be taken to the cemetery. The Fiddler in the Subway
I left with visions of a future romance and an episode to be embalmed in words.
It all evokes the impermanence of memory and the capacity of photography not so much to capture the fleeting moment, but to embalm it. ArtScene: This Week's Top Exhibitions in the Western U.S. (August 17-21, 2010)
There is something embalmed about the look of most American films.
We do know however that all the major cultures of antiquity embalmed, perfumed or censed the dead. A Conversation with Jack Turner
The team has concluded - based on the identification of at least five different types of embalming material - that great care was taken in the mummification of this king.
He meets the girl who put the group together - Ao Sasaki - and when he gets to the forest, he meets the others - Makoto Numata, a dowser who finds dead people instead of water; Keiko Makino, an embalmer, which is rare in Japan because cremation is the principal way of disposing of the dead; and Yuji Yata, who speaks to aliens through his hand puppet. Graphic novels: old ones, new ones, “borrowed” ones, and blue ones – you could get married with these books! | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources
Such anecdotes illuminate the dry facts and dates in which the past was formerly embalmed.
Beneath this lies the most splendid embalmed St Justin in his contemporary costume with fine wire work and embroidery.
His deeds are embalmed in the hearts of the people.
Language is not an arsenal of ready-made arms, and it is not _vocabulary_, which, in so far as it is thought of as progressive and in living use, is always a cemetery, containing corpses more or less well embalmed, that is to say, a collection of abstractions. Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic
For the most part, however, embalming is not required and is undesirable due to the highly toxic chemicals used and the invasive procedures required for embalming. Boing Boing
In books, are embalmed the greatest thoughts of all ages.
Dr. DAVID RUGGLES, poor, blind, and an invalid, founded a well-known Water-Cure Establishment in the town where I write, erected expensive buildings, won honorable distinction as a most successful and skillful practitioner, secured the warm regard and esteem of this community, and left a name embalmed in the hearts of many who feel that they owe life to his eminent skill and careful practice. The colored patriots of the American Revolution : with sketches of several distinguished colored persons : to which is added a brief survey of the condition and prospects of colored Americans,
Myrrh is a fragrant gum resin used in making incense, perfume, and herbal medicine, and in ancient times it was also employed in embalming.
Embalmers are advised of the protective clothing required both for handling the chemicals and the deceased persons themselves.
The body of Hephaestion was embalmed and carried on to Babylon to be burned on a funeral pyre in a funeral on which he planned to spend astronomical sums.
These services would include the hire of a hearse, coffin costs, flowers and embalming.
The reproach of his opponents of the romantic school that he was an "embalmer" has a foundation of truth. McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 4, March, 1896
Outside of medical circles, people who are otherwise reasonably knowledgeable and sophisticated take for granted not only that embalming is done for reasons of sanitation but that it is required by law. The Undertaker's Racket
Some proponents of murder theories had previously suggested a harried and rushed embalming process.
While talking about dead bodies, you should also note that twice as much formaldehyde was needed to embalm a person 20 years ago compared to today.
The headlights cast an eerie spectral glow on the thick glades, the ever-imposing wall of pine that kept the highway embalmed from time itself.
When we die we are embalmed, burned or interred before we have time to pong.
This all fits with Jessica Mitford's contention in The American Way of Death that thanks to professional embalmers, funeral homes and crematoria, death in modern times has become increasingly remote and sanitised.
Bentham appreciated his creature comforts: according to Negley Harte, the University of London's historian, his embalmed body wears a pair of knitted underpants, unlike most of his contemporaries, who simply tucked their shirt-tails between their legs. Me in the Economist, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
The Egyptians used it in embalming, filling body cavities with powdered myrrh. An old chestnut, re-roasted
Johnson would have none of it: he scorned the lexicographer who deluded himself that he could ‘embalm his language, and secure it from corruption and decay’.
Greek historian Herodotus, who wrote that Persians "embalmed" their dead in wax. Multimedia: Botching a Good Story
While you cannot hope to put into your soil any such reserve of slow-acting organic matter as we still have in our comparatively new soils of the West, we may keep in mind that a small amount of quick-acting fresh organic matter is more effective than a large supply of what we might call embalmed material that decomposes very, very slowly unless assisted by the addition of more active organic matter. The Story of the Soil; from the Basis of Absolute Science and Real Life,
She can only embalm his cat and mouse in casein and mahogany, making his newspaper art both dreary and precious. Duchamp Redux
A conundrum so huge that he barely noticed the Pope was dead, and I reckon it never occurred to him that the old fella might have been murdered, which is why he called the embalmer instead of the police. Irish Blogs
A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life. John Milton
And myrrh, a spicy resin used for embalming the dead, was meant to point to Jesus' Passion.
So it could just be a difference of terminology as to what we call embalming in America versus what they call embalming in Rome. Preparing the Pontiff
Kim sez, "Teardrop Memories is an online store specializing in spooky and arcane antiquities, from funeral cards to embalming supplies, church benches to cribs for dead infants to ... salad forks that advertise a Philly mortuary? Boing Boing: December 11, 2005 - December 17, 2005 Archives
Cleveland, Ohio's death grinders EMBALMER are currently writing material for their next full length album, to be entitled "The Apocalyptic Bloodshower" (label tba). Metal Underground.com
Wall text explains that Joo rigged a camera inside an embalmed caribou carcass, left it in the woods baited with fresh meat and attempted to restart nature's feeding cycles.
He also found that date palm wine was used in the sterilisation of the body and organs during mummification and aromatic spices were used in the embalming.
Based on the research, this paper give four kinds of prevention and cure methods, discuss the reinforce scheme and put forward that embalmment...
To keep the nails in place, Ancient Egyptian embalmers sometimes either tied the nails to the fingers and toes, or covered them with metal thimbles.
While the refrigerator was kept warm enough to prevent the deterioration of veins and arteries, its algidity nonetheless dictated a ten-hour thawing before the onset of embalming. Body of Knowledge
Despite her best intentions, ultimately she's trying to find the sort of writerly perfection that leads to embalmed craft.
BRYAN: The jackal is the god of embalming, so he is actually there to protect what is inside the box. CNN Transcript Jun 30, 2002
Next to our beloved Washington, there is no name entwined with deeper interest in the hearts of Jerseymen, than LAFAYETTE -- None, which they will transmit to their posterity, encircled with a wreath of nobler praise, or embalmed with the incense of purer love, than that of the interesting stranger who embarked his life and fortune open the tempestuous ocean of our revolution -- and who fought at Brandywine, at Monmouth and at Memoirs of General Lafayette : with an Account of His Visit to America and His Reception By the People of the United State
It took the same amount of bottles of embalming fluids to embalm him as races that he won. Photographer Finds Kinship With A Black 'Homeplace'
In books, are embalmed the greatest thoughts of all ages.
Stalin's body was embalmed and was presently put on display with Lenin's corpse in the renamed Lenin-Stalin Mausoleum.
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The autopsies were controversial, as Muslim tradition calls for bodies not to be embalmed or in any way retouched and for them to be buried before sundown on the day of death.
Artist Robert Lenkiewicz carried out the final wishes of his friend Edwin McKenzie alias Diogenes when he died in 1984, and embalmed him as a "work of art. Keep Your Friends Close
Sadly, some deaths are in tragic circumstances and while embalmers are very skilled, they cannot rebuild a person.
Whether he profited by all the counsel showered upon him by the muse we know not: he was much respected -- his name embalmed, like that of his father, in the poetry of his friend, is not likely soon to perish.] The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham
Maybe our kids should be going to mortuary college instead -- oh wait, we'll have computer-operated robots to embalm & bury the dead. East Aurora School District 131 | What's the Progress for One of Aurora's Most Serious Challenges?
Marlow Wood, an American who has been embalming in Japan for the past five years, thinks that compared with the US, Japan's funeral practices make sense.
In books, are embalmed the greatest thoughts of all ages.
Passionately devoted to her husband she was brokenhearted when he died in 1269 and had his body embalmed and his heart placed in a small, silver-enamelled ivory casket which she carried with her everywhere.
The great doors swung open, and there upon an embalming slab lay her battered body.
The body had also been embalmed, which he said also had a bearing on the results.
They perform just about every task, from meeting with families to embalming to choreographing the funeral procession.
The discovery in Rome in 1599 of an embalmed body, supposedly of St Cecilia, the tutelary saint of music, elicited papal approval for the airs and madrigals of the age of Monteverdi.
Similarly, embalming, which replaces the blood with a preservative fluid, is ill-advised.
Squeeze the blood out of the hand; embalm it in a shroud and steep it in a solution of saltpetre, salt and pepper for two weeks and then dry in the sun. A Bit of Soap
Tap dancers as entertainment falls somewhere between colonic irrigation and embalming.
Discussion of the best or most accessible vein is strikingly similar to embalmers' discussions about arterial accessibility.
She recovered all the parts of the body excepting one only, which the oxyrhynchus had greedily devoured; [*] and with the help of her sister Nephthys, her son Horus, Anubis, and Thot, she joined together and embalmed them, and made of this collection of his remains an imperishable mummy, capable of sustaining for ever the soul of a god. History Of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 1 (of 12)
No proper post-mortem was carried out on Mrs Gregory because her body was released and embalmed prematurely.
Such anecdotes illuminate the dry facts and dates in which the past was formerly embalmed.
Actually - she puts "embalmer" as "E" on the list - I don't think the majority of students are going to want a summer job learning how to do that. Money Tips for Writers
The local undertaker carried the body into town for embalming, then returned it to the ranch where it was laid out in the living room.
Paul VI was only lightly embalmed before his body was placed before the public during Rome's hot summer.
After deliberations involving Stalin and the head of the secret police, Felix Dzerzhinsky, who had organised the funeral, it had been decided to embalm Lenin rather than bury or cremate the body. John Gray on humanity's quest for immortality
The Egyptians used it in embalming and Moses is said to have used cinnamon oil to anoint the Ark of the Covenant. Cinnamon: Mexican cooks use the real thing

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