Quotes About Embalmed

It is richly ironic that one of the few original intentions they all shared was opposition to any judicial doctrine of "original intent." To be sure, they all wished to be remembered, but they did not want to be embalmed.

The snow kept on falling, and penetrated so deeply into her prone body that she had no other feeling than that of wanting to die, buried under these adorable snow kisses, to be embalmed in the snow - and then to be swept off, in a final gust, to the land of eternal snow, to the fabled infinite mountains where the darling little adultresses lie in a perpetual swoon, ceaselessly and firmly caressed by all the perverse angels.

At the same time, his past lay before him like a corpse waiting to be embalmed.

Theta crashed next to them on the thick zebra-skin rug. "I'm embalmed." "Potted and splificated?" "Ossified to the gills. Time for night-night.

Alexander had died in 323 B.C. His embalmed body in its gold and crystal coffin was the new city's most sacred relic.

I nibbled on the edge—it tasted like a piece of bologna that had met a violent death and been embalmed.

Huntly was also taken, but died of a stroke while still mounted on his horse. His corpse was embalmed and sent to Edinburgh, where it was kept until the following May, when it was put on trial in Parliament. As the clerk's report put it, "The coffin was set upright, as if the earl stood on his feet." He was then found guilty of treason, and the family estates were declared forfeit.

Theta crashed next to them on the thick zebra-skin rug. "I'm embalmed." "Potted and splificated?" "Ossified to the gills. Time for night-night.

Not all that surprisingly, Holmes began to go insane, spending his final years in and out of institutions. At seventy, he was placing ads in mortuary trade journals for a rubber-coated canvas body removal bag that could, he suggested, double as a sleeping bag. Shortly before he died, Holmes is said to have requested that he not be embalmed, though whether this was a function of sanity or insanity was never made clear.

Miss Glory went on to say that the doctor had taken all her lady organs. I reasoned that a pig organ's included the lungs, heart, and liver, so if Mrs. Cullinan was walking around without those essentials, it explained why she drank alcohol out of unmarked bottles. She was keeping herself embalmed.

In some warped way, having an embalmed body with us made perfect sense.

There is, after all, a fine line between being pampered and being embalmed.

Au lieu d'être immobile comme il convient à un pied embaumé depuis quatre mille ans, il s'agitait, se contractait et sautillait sur les papiers comme une grenouille effarée.

Coffined thoughts around me, in mummycases, embalmed in spice of words. Thoth, god of libraries, a birdgod, moonycrowned. (p. 248.)

There is a shrine in the temple of age, where lie forever embalmed the memories of such as have deserved well of their country and their race.

Um bom livro é o precioso sangue vital de um espírito mestre, embalsamado e entesourado de propósito para uma vida para lá da vida.

Her forehead was unlined in the way of the recently embalmed and her smile resembled that of someone undergoing electroshock.

When you have praised my leg so beautifully? I can assure you that no female of my acquaintance has ever appreciated my poor leg so much before. When I die, I shall have it embalmed and sent to you.

then transferred all Italy to be the property of the pope and removed to his city of Constantinople, leaving the manuscript recording his donation on the embalmed body of Saint Peter. "Alas, Constantine, how much evil didst thou mother!" exclaimed Dante. This is unfair to Constantine; the evil was mothered by some ingenious clerical zealot, who contrived probably the most momentous forgery in history.