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She said "they had embalmed him too late" and Mr Nightingale said: "He hadn't been embalmed until they realised the mistake."

From BBC • Aug. 15, 2024

An account in The New York Times of Nov. 3, 1861, reported that Dr. Holmes had embalmed the body of Col.

From New York Times • May 26, 2014

It was late at night, and he had a nightmare about one of the guys he had embalmed earlier that day.

From Time Magazine Archive

After Evita's death, Per�n paid the famed Spanish pathologist Pedro Ara $100,000 to embalm her body the way the Russians had embalmed the remains of Lenin and Stalin.

From Time Magazine Archive

I had seen the name a thousand times in print; the poets had idealised it, and the novelists had embalmed it in tender phrases.

From Arms and the Woman by MacGrath, Harold