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Ancient and withered, blackened by many years of the smoke of the devil-devil house, nevertheless the shrunken, mummy-like face was unmistakably Chinese.
Chapter 25 2010
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They fall to the ground with their wings bound, mummy-like, in sheets of sticky silk, unable to fly or feed.
Birdology Sy Montgomery 2010
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She is gray-haired, with a broad, wrinkled forehead, eyes clear as a girl's and well-spaced, mummy-like lips and a toothless mouth.
“Samuel! There was a rolling wonder in the sound. Ay, there was!” 2008
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He was less mummy-like, which really made a difference.
Nothing Like You Lauren Strasnick 2009
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He was less mummy-like, which really made a difference.
Nothing Like You Lauren Strasnick 2009
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He was less mummy-like, which really made a difference.
Nothing Like You Lauren Strasnick 2009
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He was less mummy-like, which really made a difference.
Nothing Like You Lauren Strasnick 2009
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One connection I did make from this story was the suggestion that Skull-Face was resurrected mummy-like, just like the villain in H. P. Lovecraft's "Out of the Aeons" Skull-Face's actual name is Kathulos-- very suggestive.
"Skull-Face" by Robert E. Howard Dark Worlds Club 2008
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You mean that shambling, mummy-like alien accompanied by the videographer's labored breathing isn't smoking-gun proof of extraterrestrial visitation?
Archive 2006-08-01 Mac 2006
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Nearly everyone was under-nourished, and some clearly diseased; two men were wearing trusses, and as for the old mummy-like creature of seventy-five, one wondered how he could possibly make his daily march.
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