What is "embalmer"

Usage examples of "embalmer".

He felt half bewildered and almost as if he had already become an embalmer, nay even a paraschites, one of the most despised of human beings.

Thurl, the Mistress Embalmer, her smell had moved in for the week and we were looking at a crested Guild-note for the sum of five hundred guilders.

If you imagine what an embalmer should look like, Josepp Chant was the complete opposite.

Egypt, who had witnessed the death agony, would have also her part in the apotheosis: it would be the most secret and somber part, and the harshest, for this country would play the eternal role of embalmer to his body.

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.

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.

The art of Anubis, transmitted to the embalmers and employed by them from generation to generation, had, by almost eliminating the corruptible part of the body without destroying its outward appearance, arrested decay, if not for ever, at least for an unlimited period of time.

Then we can collect on the ten thousand five hundred guilders the Ursors owe us, the two hundred and fifty the Embalmers owe us, and maybe take a holiday to sunny Tar Heetee, where I hear they serve cocktails in troughs full of little paper umbrellas .

I helped Frank draw up an account for the Embalmers and the Ursors, including all the bonuses.

Holmes set up a business selling his patented embalming fluid, Innominata, to embalmers, but otherwise began to distance himself from the mortuary trade.

Ray was lying there today as if awaiting his embalmers, his head wrapped in pristine cotton, eyes shut, mouth agape, spaghetti-thin nasogastric tubing running into one taped-down nostril.

Wiigh-Masak must convince the people whose jobs will be affected should composting become a reality: the funeral directors, the coffin makers, the embalmers.

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.