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Usage examples of embalmers.

He determined if the old man did not return to ask the kolchytes or embalmers to admit him into their guild--and for the sake of his adroitness they were not likely to refuse him--then he would make Uarda his wife, and live apart from the world, for her, for his studies, and for his new calling, in which he hoped to learn a great deal.

Among the curious who had flocked together were many embalmers, laborers, and humble folk, who lived in the Necropolis.

There lay the long workshops of the embalmers and closely-packed homes of the inhabitants of the City of the Dead.