embalmings

It has been asserted that the dogma of resurrection was much in vogue with the Egyptians, and was the origin of their embalmings and their pyramids.

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

A time for even grimmer stuff than that, like autopsies and embalmings in Isabel Allende's "The House of the Spirits."

Rives on 4 a.m. 2007

A time for even grimmer stuff than that, like autopsies and embalmings in Isabel Allende's "The House of the Spirits."

Rives on 4 a.m. 2007

A time for even grimmer stuff than that, like autopsies and embalmings in Isabel Allende's "The House of the Spirits."

Rives on 4 a.m. 2007

Give us just one call, and you will entrust future embalmings and obsequies in your family to no other firm.

Danny's Own Story 1912

The repose of ages lay in its hushed groves, its drooping vines, its lifeless creepers; the dry dust of its decaying leaves and branches mingled with the living perfumes like the spiced embalmings of a forgotten past.

The Crusade of the Excelsior Bret Harte 1869

A quiet sign beckoned me yet upward, through one of the Guggenheim's cavelike little archways, and I was in a large room holding large canvases from the 1990s ” meticulous crystallizations, or visual embalmings, of prototypical American living quarters.

Big, Bright & Bendayed Updike, John 1993