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Embalmed meats and kyanized sentences are never good.

From News Writing The Gathering , Handling and Writing of News Stories by Spencer, M. Lyle (Matthew Lyle)

Embalmed, coffined in wood and lead, and covered with a velvet pall, it lay for some days in St. James's Palace, where crowds came to see it.

From The Life of John Milton Volume 3 1643-1649 by Masson, David

In the green deeps a shaft of gold Limns their elaborate attire; Through silken sleeves the winds aspire, Embalmed, to stray, and, growing bold,     Swell them to their desire.

From A Lute of Jade : selections from the classical poets of China by Cranmer-Byng, L. (Launcelot)

The sacred Ibis, one might say, Was classified a "Bird-of-Pray" His body, after death, was dried, Embalmed in pitch, and mummyfied, And thus was handed down to us In some old King's sarcophagus.

From How to tell the Birds from the Flowers and other Wood-cuts A Revised Manual of Flornithology for Beginners by Wood, Robert Williams

Kind guardian spirits had watched him there, From ages long—long faded, Embalmed with gems and spices rare, And in folds of sweet grass braided.

From The Myth of Hiawatha, and Other Oral Legends, Mythologic and Allegoric, of the North American Indians by Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe