Embalmed

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. ❋ Unknown (1855)

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. ❋ Unknown (1906)

“Mr. Ah Cum, Jr., deserves to have his name embalmed in history.” ❋ Unknown (2005)

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.] ❋ Robert Burns (1777)

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. ❋ Benedetto Croce (1909)

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. ❋ Unknown (1892)

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. ❋ Hamilton Wright Mabie (1880)

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 (2011)

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. ❋ Jan (2008)

Greek historian Herodotus, who wrote that Persians "embalmed" their dead in wax. ❋ Unknown (2002)

Jacob and Joseph are the only two Israelites of whom the Scriptures tell that they were "embalmed," chanat, a verb having close Arabic and Ethiopic parallels and meaning first to "ripen" then to "embalm." ❋ 1892-1972 (1942)

The library thus "embalmed" for over seventy years and now maintained as a special collection in the Virginia Browsing ❋ Unknown (1938)

The slain of higher condition, "embalmed" and iron-cased, were sliding off on the railways to their far homes; the dead of the rank and file were being gathered up and committed hastily to the earth; the gravely wounded were cared for hard by the scene of conflict, or pushed a little way along to the neighboring villages; while those who could walk were meeting us, as ❋ Oliver Wendell Holmes (1851)

"embalmed" and iron-cased, were sliding off on the railways to their far homes; the dead of the rank-and-file were being gathered up and committed hastily to the earth; the gravely wounded were cared for hard by the scene of conflict, or pushed a little way along to the neighboring villages; while those who could walk were meeting us, as I have said, at every step in the road. ❋ Various (N/A)

"embalmed" stuff in cans, of sickness and yet more sickness, of maiming accidents, of death -- news that is the commonplace of tenement life. ❋ David Graham Phillips (1889)

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. ❋ Unknown (2011)

I stop to look at canopic jars carved from stone, where ritual priests placed the organs before they embalmed the body. ❋ Mira Bartók (2011)

When each Apis died, it was embalmed and carried to a special burial chamber at Saqqara. ❋ Philip Freeman (2011)

Christophe and I are getting embalmed at the Rio, talking about his recent trip to Europe. ❋ Jeff Allen (2011)