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Familiar Quotations

Embalming

Disappointments should be cremated, not embalmed.–Anonymous

Books are embalmed minds.–Bovee

One thing about being successful is that I stopped being afraid of dying. Once you're a star you're dead already. You're embalmed.–Dustin Hoffman

A good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose for a life beyond.–John Milton

Use in Literature

Embalming

Oh, sir, your kind and loving tears Are like sweet odors to embalm your friend! Thank your good lady; since I was your guest, She has made me a very wanton, in good sooth.–Shakespeare Apocrypha in Sir Thomas More.

Large violet patches had already begun to spread over the face; the embalmers' work had not been finished too soon.–Honoré de Balzac in The Elixir of Life.

The embalmers had laid a sheet over it, to hide from all eyes the dreadful spectacle of a corpse so wasted and shrunken that it seemed like a skeleton, and only the face was uncovered.–Honoré de Balzac in The Elixir of Life.

That the art of such embalming as this had ever been known we should not have believed, yet here seemed conclusive testimony that our immediate ancestors had possessed it.–Edward Bellamy in Looking Backward, 2000 to 1887.

We have the lyric, the epic, the satire, the narrative, the letter, the diary, conversation, all embalmed in art. But there is probably some other medium possible which will become perfectly obvious the moment it is seized upon and used.–Arthur Christopher Benson in At Large.

Some few, whose names remain connected with places, or embalmed in literature, we will mention.–Thomas Bullfinch in Bullfinch's Mythology.

For even were I of the humblest mould, the fragrance of the rose has penetrated me, and the spirit of thy nature hath passed within me, to embalm, to sanctify, to inspire.–Edward Bulwer-Lytton in The Last Days of Pompeii.

• Prefaceiv
• Familiar Quotations1
• Embalming1
• Use in Literature2
• Embalming2
• Embalming – "Body"6
• Embalming – "Dead"7
• Embalming – "Greater"8
• Embalming – "Hearts"9
• Embalming – "Life"9
• Embalming – "Once"10
• Embalming – "Spice"10
• Nonfiction Usage12
• Journalism Usage12
• Legal Usage12
• Patent Usage12
• Bibliographic Usage14
• Encyclopedic Usage21
• Lexicographic Usage23
• Index31