taxidermically

At length, my companion and I were ushered into an enormous apartment, crammed, like the rest of the house, with a bizarre and promiscuous assortment of bibelots: intricately engraved walrus tusks—shells of tropical cocoa-nuts, chiselled into the form of grotesque human faces—taxidermically preserved infant alligators, arranged in whimsical poses—and much, much more.

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Squealing with excitement, Sissy quickly tore off the wrapping, then emitted a sharp gasp of astonishment as she found herself holding a medium-sized, taxidermically preserved member of the species Procyon lotor—more generally known as the common raccoon.

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