mummy

• This is John Bellingham Dr. Norbury started back and stared at Thorndyke in speechless amazement You don't mean," he exclaimed, after a long pause, "that this mummy is the body of John Bellingham I do indeed. —  The Eye of Osiris
• I perceived he was bandaged like a mummy, and could not move a limb; but still he smiled. —  Woman's Work in the Civil War A Record of Heroism, Patriotism, and Patience
• Marion as melancholy as a mummy, and a child that shrieks in terror whenever its father approaches. —  Eventide A Series of Tales and Poems
• [307 Sidenote: Preservation of the mummy Some days afterwards the mummy was affixed to a new framework of bamboo and carried into the hut. —  The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia
• The god is represented as a mummy, the swathings throwing the body and limbs into relief Illustration: 238.jpg THE RAMESSEUM Drawn by Boudier, from a photograph by Beato; the great blocks in the foreground are the fragments of the colossal statue of Ramses II His hands are freed from the bandages and are crossed on the breast, and hold respectively the flail and crook; the smiling face is surmounted by an enormous head-dress. —  History of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 5 (of 12)

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