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Dr. DAVID RUGGLES, poor, blind, and an invalid, founded a well-known Water-Cure Establishment in the town where I write, erected expensive buildings, won honorable distinction as a most successful and skillful practitioner, secured the warm regard and esteem of this community, and left a name embalmed in the hearts of many who feel that they owe life to his eminent skill and careful practice.

The colored patriots of the American Revolution : with sketches of several distinguished colored persons : to which is added a brief survey of the condition and prospects of colored Americans, 1855

a war named after him and so succeeded in having his name embalmed in history; Pontiac, whose great conspiracy Parkman has made immortal, and Tecumseh.

Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 2 of 8 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History 1906

“Mr. Ah Cum, Jr., deserves to have his name embalmed in history.”

The Romance of China: Excursions to China in U.S. Culture: 1776-1876 2005

Whether he profited by all the counsel showered upon him by the muse we know not: he was much respected -- his name embalmed, like that of his father, in the poetry of his friend, is not likely soon to perish.]

The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham Robert Burns 1777

Language is not an arsenal of ready-made arms, and it is not _vocabulary_, which, in so far as it is thought of as progressive and in living use, is always a cemetery, containing corpses more or less well embalmed, that is to say, a collection of abstractions.

Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic Benedetto Croce 1909

While you cannot hope to put into your soil any such reserve of slow-acting organic matter as we still have in our comparatively new soils of the West, we may keep in mind that a small amount of quick-acting fresh organic matter is more effective than a large supply of what we might call embalmed material that decomposes very, very slowly unless assisted by the addition of more active organic matter.

The Story of the Soil; from the Basis of Absolute Science and Real Life, 1892

The King soon afterward expired; and his heart was taken out from his body and embalmed, that is, prepared with spices and perfumes, that it might remain a long time fresh and uncorrupted.

Heroes Every Child Should Know Hamilton Wright Mabie 1880

The art historian Sydney Freedberg thinks that Parmigianino had fully explored a certain style in the painting, so that it was "embalmed" or "entombed" and he didn't want to return to it.

James Elkins: Using Google Art To Explore Famous, Unfinished Paintings James Elkins 2011

The only evidence even remotely suggesting that Persians mummified their dead is from the fifth century B.C. Greek historian Herodotus, who wrote that Persians "embalmed" their dead in wax.

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Greek historian Herodotus, who wrote that Persians "embalmed" their dead in wax.

Multimedia: Botching a Good Story 2002