Use mummy in a sentence
Sentences ending with mummy
- The Greeks seem to have adopted this custom, but with their usual talent for beautifying all they touched, substituted a winged figure of death for the mummy. [10]
- The Greeks adopted the idea, but beautified it, using a winged Genius of death instead of a mummy. [10]
- This bazaar of the dead was well supplied, for coffins of every form stood up against the walls, from the simplest chest to the richly gilt and painted coffer, in form resembling a mummy. [10]
- There were four of them for each mummy. [10]
- Isn't the Clerk of the Court a man as well as a mummy? [11]
- One of them makes his bow to the public, and exhibits an unfortunate truth bandaged up so that it cannot stir hand or foot,--as helpless, apparently, and unable to take care of itself, as an Egyptian mummy. [6]
- You must say 'father' to--" "Yes, mummy. [11]
- Why a man can't any more start a case of rheumatism in this house than he can shake an opinion out of a mummy! [5]
- Look at that [pointing to Mr. Depew] gilded mummy! [5]
- Mummy! [2]
More example sentences with the word mummy in them
- I do not wish to be burnt, as they did with my father--no, I should wish to be finely embalmed, and my mummy to be placed with my mother's. [10]
- He had reserved what he considered to be his greatest wonder till the last--a royal Egyptian mummy, the best preserved in the world, perhaps. [5]
- He involuntarily compared the old capital of the Pharaohs to a time-eaten mummy, and Amru's new city to a vigorous youth. [10]
- On the higher shelves were mummy bands and shrouds, some coarse, others of the very finest texture, wigs for the bald heads of shaven corpses, or woolen fillets, and simply or elaborately embroidered ribbons for the Greek dead. [10]
- Here the portrait of the blooming, beautiful husk of a soul exulting in haughty arrogance; yonder that husk itself, transformed by the hand of death into a rigid, colourless caricature, a mummy without embalming. [10]
- Such were portions of mummy, of human blood, and of moss from the skull of a thief hung in chains. [6]
- At the head of each mummy stood or squatted a wailing-woman with the emblems of Nephthys, and one at its feet with those of Isis. [10]
- Look at the mummy of Thothmes at Boulak, and think what Cleopatra must look like now. [11]
- He lost--all--all--and at last against an enormous sum, still thinking of us, and only of us, he staked the mummy of his dead father. [10]
- Pentaur followed the king as soon as he had closed his mother's eyes, and accompanied her body to Heliopolis, there to have it embalmed; from thence the mummy was to be sent to Thebes, and solemnly placed in the grave of her ancestors. [10]
- Messick had his good points--I will not attempt to deny it, nor do I wish to do it but he was no more fitted for breakfast than a mummy would be, sir--not a bit. [5]
- His mummy was discovered by Mariette in the tomb of Apis at Saqqarah during ha excavations of the Serapeum at Memphis. [10]
- I seemed to detect in myself a sort of sneaking fellow-feeling for the mummy in the museum, and a desire to swap news with him. [5]
- He cursed the dead king and furiously demanded to be taken to the temple of Neith, where his mummy was laid. [10]
- In an old closet were some seashells and coral-fans, and dried star-fishes and sea, horses, and a natural mummy of a rough-skinned dogfish. [6]
- Then the waters ceased to flow; they congealed, and, in place of the river, a gigantic mummy lay before me. [10]
- Three months of camp life on Lake Tahoe would restore an Egyptian mummy to his pristine vigor, and give him an appetite like an alligator. [5]
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