This French quarter is like a bit of life, gaiety, and youth in the midst of mummified old China.
By this time Williams began to realize that the dwarf had, for some reason or other, with a view to use in some unknown way, become possessed of a mummified prince.
After it had been decided that we should start in search of 'He who had been mummified alive,' the next step seemed to be to go.
In an evil hour she won me by a show of false affection, and, taking advantage of my passion, mummified me alive.
He who was mummified shall be found in the dark country, where there is no sun, and men breathe the vapour of smoke, and light lamps at noonday, and wire themselves even with wires when the wind bloweth.
Once near Easter Cliffs, after a terrific storm had shifted all the dunes, I came across the bodies of a dozen white men, all together and mummified and wonderfully preserved.
King Seti, a tomb prepared during his life to be the receptacle for his mummified remains after death.
Her blanket had slipped down, leaving her hair in wisps about her mummified face.
She drew up her mummified face within two inches of the girl's own.
The work at Cliff Palace was undertaken at too late a day to recover anymummified human remains, all having been previously removed.
Here the inhabitants of Cliff Palace also deposited certain of their dead, which became mummified on account of the dryness of the air in the cave.
And, in order that at such times it might be able to obtain nourishment, a mass of mummified viands wrapped in bandages were amongst the thousand and one things buried at its side.
As the bodies were mummified and unfit for bacteriologic examination they were burned.
The rat cadaver was sent to the Bureau of Science and the following facts were reported from there some days later: The mummified rat and skeleton were pulverized in a sterile mortar and an emulsion was made and injected into guinea-pigs.
The Peruvians mummified their dead and placed them jointed and huddled up with knees to chin, looking toward the sunset, with the hands held before the face.
He stands, therefore, in exactly the same relation to Anher that the mummified hawk stands to the Horus-hawk.
One is tempted to ask whether Ptah is not similarly the mummified Tum?
Not only was the sacred bull or the sacred hawk mummified after death, but other bulls and hawks also.
Like Ptah of Memphis or the mummified Horus of Nekhen, he was a dead god, and it was to a dead god consequently that the offering was made and the priest dedicated.
It will be shown in a future lecture that Osiris was the mummified Anher.
There were cemeteries of mummified animals, just as there were cemeteries of mummified men.
We have also seen that Osiris was not the only mummified god known in Egypt.
In the Speos Artermidos near Beni-Hassan, where a large cemetery ofmummified cats has been found, she is called Pakht, an older form of Bast.
Still the fact remains that not only were the bodies of the Apis or the Mnevis mummified and consigned to a special burying-place, but the bodies of other bulls as well.
The result was inevitable: the follower of Osiris soon assured himself that one day the mummified body also would have life and action again breathed into it and rejoin its Osiris in the fields of paradise.
In no other way can we explain the existence among them of their mummified gods.
The progress of research since Cuvier's time has supplied far more striking examples of the long duration of specific forms of life than those which are furnished by the mummified Ibises and Crocodiles of Egypt.
The skins and fleshy parts of all mammals and birds become shrunken, mummified and colorless when dry, and if not covered with hair or feathers require to be painted with the colors which have disappeared.
Clearly, it is better to reproduce the colors of soft parts as accurately as one can, rather than let them remain in a colorless, dry, and mummified condition, hideous to the eye and meaningless to the understanding.
Not one was lacking; all were there, put away like fetishes, perfumed with love, tied up with ribbons like the balsam and swathings of a mummified life.
It was true that Penny looked mummifiedin her wrappings, and that her little legs had short play, swaddled like a papoose.
You won't need a chair and a rug, for you won't sit mummified on the voyage.
He held out his hand, the left one, and she took it in a mummified claw.
These caverns which contain seventy bodies, taken from the neighbouring sepulchres forty years ago, and mummified by causes of which we shall speak in the sequel, are of a temperature of eighteen degrees.
I descended its vault in order to examine some two dozen of mummified monks, some of them four centuries old.
Time passed on: the first ray of daylight slowly gleamed, when he thought he heard the door of the church close.
His emblem was a mummified hawk, or a human figure.
Species of dogs seem to have been held sacred and mummified on merely the general ground of confusion with the jackal.
The sacred bark of Seker bore his figure as that of a mummified hawk; and along the boat is a row of hawks which probably are the spirits of deceased kings who have joined Seker in his journey to the world of the dead.
Among other interesting relics, sarcophagi were found containing mummified bodies in a marvellous state of preservation.
