Embedding image in the body of an email - help!!

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Can any of you kind guys help a technophobe?
I found some technical drawings online yesterday which were ideal to illustrate an idea of mine which I've described in an email I intended sending today.
I right-clicked on each and chose the option 'copy image'... and then, returning my message, pressed CTRL and V to, as I thought, paste each where needed (I did NOT want to send them as attachment files). They seemed to copy to the places I intended very well.... but when I came back this morning to complete the email they had vanished... to be replaced by outline boxes with a weird symbol in the top left hand corner. I don't know if it's relevant but the email I'm using is outlook.com.
I did try with my alternative email which is yahoo basic mail... but the images wouldn't even copy there at all using the same method!!
Any guidance very gratefully accepted.
I found some technical drawings online yesterday which were ideal to illustrate an idea of mine which I've described in an email I intended sending today.
I right-clicked on each and chose the option 'copy image'... and then, returning my message, pressed CTRL and V to, as I thought, paste each where needed (I did NOT want to send them as attachment files). They seemed to copy to the places I intended very well.... but when I came back this morning to complete the email they had vanished... to be replaced by outline boxes with a weird symbol in the top left hand corner. I don't know if it's relevant but the email I'm using is outlook.com.
I did try with my alternative email which is yahoo basic mail... but the images wouldn't even copy there at all using the same method!!
Any guidance very gratefully accepted.
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What you suggest is more work than I wanted to do. I thought one could just copy and paste. A shame there isn't some simpler method. The more I use email, the more I discover how non-user-friendly it can be...