For in the Rites of funeration they did use to anoint the dead body, with Aromatick Spices and Oyntments, before they buried them.

He felt some dark presence moving irresistably upon him from the darkness, a presence subtle and murmurous as a flood filling him wholly with itself. New York: B.W. Huebsch, 1922, p. 112, https://archive.org/details/cu31924060276882

Was never sic a yabble! If e'er there was sic strife and clatter, Fracas o tongues and bellerin blatter, Twas at the towr o Babel.

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