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- - Colonel Warrington certainly told me the people saw through all the mummery, and laughed, or were angry. - "Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846", James Richardson
- - It was the final accomplishment of mid- Victorian horror, with its pit of mouldering bones and solemn ritualistic nonsense; yet the thought of the ponderous gold and black catafalques rolling in procession between the horizontal white slabs, of the winking candles- all the ghastly appendages of religious undertaking- and the clergy in purple and fine cambric, with amethyst rings on their fat or their thin fingers, gave it the feeling of a remote mummery. - "San Cristóbal de la Habana", Joseph Hergesheimer
- - When they were all gone, and when Trabb and his men- but not his Boy; I looked for him- had crammed their mummery into bags, and were gone too, the house felt wholesomer. - "Great Expectations", Charles Dickens
