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Example sentences for "embalmed"

Lexicographically close words:
emasculate; emasculated; emasculating; emasculation; embalm; embalmer; embalmers; embalming; embalmment; embanked
  1. And they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.

  2. And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father; and the physicians embalmed Israel.

  3. Many a man lives a burden to the earth; but a good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit; embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.

  4. In the short Book of Ruth there lies embalmed in the finest English a very tender love story, set in all the sweet surroundings of the ripening corn, the gathered harvest, and the humble gleaners.

  5. His body was carefully embalmed by the Federals, borne through their lines and delivered to his early and cherished friend, General Hoke.

  6. The genuine spirit of the people and of the times is embalmed in the rare literary products such as we have from the pen of this Alabamian.

  7. Though I shall die as the leaf dies in my body, yet I shall live forever embalmed amidst the beauty of his thoughts," she told herself perpetually, and all her life became transfigured.

  8. So six years passed away; and the name of Reine Flamma was almost forgotten, but embalmed in memories of religious sanctity, as the dead heart of a saint is imbedded in amber and myrrh.

  9. Deep, deep below the bay, the sea-weed and the spray, Embalmed in amber every pirate lies, Embalmed in amber every pirate lies.

  10. He loved to have his enemies under his own supervision, and he kept them so--the living ones caged and guarded, the dead ones embalmed and habited as in life; and this collection of mummies was his pride and delight.

  11. A good book is the precious life-blood of a= 40 =master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.

  12. Love is loveliest when embalmed in tears.

  13. At the head of this article you see a mummy as it appears when it has been embalmed and wrapped in its bandages.

  14. When we consider the care and skill with which the dead Egyptians used to be embalmed and encased in their sarcophagi, it is not surprising that their poor bodies have been so well preserved.

  15. When she died her body was embalmed with special care, and a beautifully gilded mummy-case was made for her.

  16. To turn once more to a phrase of Professor Mahaffy’s, “The priesthood of Egypt perhaps embalmed the civilisation of the Nile, but they surely killed it.

  17. His dead body also lay, for a good while, embalmed in honey, till Antonius afterward sent it to Judea, and caused him to be buried in the royal sepulchre.

  18. William of Tyre refers to a place where our Lord's body is said to have been embalmed (Book VIII.

  19. He filled all the relations of life in a most exemplary manner and thus embalmed his memory in the hearts of all who knew and survive him.

  20. His remains were embalmed and brought home by his physician who had accompanied him--and were interred at Warren, in Woodland Cemetery, where so many of his family repose around him.

  21. With what holy horror would the ancient Egyptians regard the economical uses to which their embalmed bodies were appropriated a few centuries ago!

  22. In the time of Jesus, as now, religion had become embalmed in petrified phrases.

  23. But surely the prince designs no more than that Falstaff's body shall be embalmed in the usual manner.

  24. He has mistaken the person who was to be embalmed to the April day again, and supposed, without reason, that the wedding day is here called April or fools day.

  25. How beautiful that mummy of Rome, embalmed in the perfumes of Nero and swathed in the shroud of Tiberius!

  26. She accompanied her brother on more than half his wanderings; she pointed out to him more than half the loveliness that is embalmed in his verses; she suggested to him half his themes.

  27. Then again, just think; it was men who embalmed her.

  28. The cat had been embalmed with coarser materials; here, all, when once the outer coverings were removed, was more delicately done.

  29. The embalmed bodies of kings were preserved in marble sarcophagi, and hidden in gigantic monuments.

  30. His virtues and services are embalmed in the heart of the world.

  31. The embalmed body appears wrapped in a shroud of linen upon which are fastened many linen scrolls painted with sacred characters.

  32. Even at the present time a man laden with cats accompanies each band of pilgrims to Mecca--a relic of the old time ceremony, which doubtless grew out of the custom of carrying the embalmed bodies of cats to Bubastis.

  33. Many of the embalmed bodies, or mummies, have been brought from Egypt and placed in national museums.

  34. She lies embalmed in the further tomb by the double palm-tree beyond the city wall.

  35. It added that on removing the outer case there had been exposed a large platinum ring set with a crystal, which had been laid upon the breast of the embalmed woman.


  36. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "embalmed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    deathless; everlasting; frozen; immortal; imperishable; incorruptible; undying; unfading