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Usage examples of mortuary.

Her face was set and so pale that the blusher seemed almost garish, the kind of work mortuary beauticians do.

He used a penlight to study a spiral-bound notebook in which he had kept a record of the unusual activities at the mortuary.

The small tombs have their chapels contained in their stone mastabas or superstructures, but the mortuary chapels of the pyramids, where regal Pharaohs lay, were separate temples, each to the east of its corresponding pyramid, and connected by a causeway to a massive gate-chapel or propylon at the edge of the rock plateau.

January sixteenth the corpse of one James Trayle disappeared from the mortuary in Treakhill.

Wherever the Mafia had grown and prospered since Prohibition, these other savages were there as well, ever clinging to the shadows as the more flamboyant amici filled headlines and mortuaries, lending their advice and financial acumen where it was lacking in their Mafia comrades, Siegel, Buchalter, Cohen, Lansky.

This written promise he sealed with his seal, and placed in the butsudan beside the mortuary tablet of O-Tei.

When they came to the Deptford mortuary he left them to meditations in a grim antechamber and went in alone.

Mortuary is in a boggy part of Monterey near Lake El Estero, where a cemetery is also located.

When Ramachandra casually pulled the cover aside, Sorokin saw that the stone was carved in the form of a gisant, a larger-than-life mortuary sculpture.

The mayor, Pericu, came to the mortuary every morning, asking if he could stay by the door.

I feel I shall do you credit in the witness box, although the thunder, I suspect, will be stolen by the police doctor, who will be in the enviable position of one to whom the city mortuary is his washpot, not to mention that over the police-station hath he cast out his shoe.

There were two doctors at the mortuary, aged men, the family doctor of the Bassets, the surgeon of the county police.

The mortuary decor leaned to wainscoting, topped with wallpaper murals showing soft mountain landscapes, forests of ever-greens with paths meandering through the woods.

It is also decreed that the mortuary act of the aforesaid de Lamotte the younger, dated the sixteenth day of February last, in the register of deaths belonging to the parish church of Saint-Louis at Versailles, be amended, and his correct names be substituted, in order that the said Sieur de Lamotte, the father, and other persons interested, may produce said names before the magistrates if required.

Details, as you must know, is a composite affair, with a whole bunch of journalists digging out nuggets and also a network of informants in hospitals, mortuaries, night clubs, police stations and all sorts of less savoury places, telephoning in with the dirt and collecting their dues.