How To Use Gravedigger In A Sentence
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D'ye know, that Irish lunatic absolutely ran the gauntlet of pandy fire to get back into Lucknow, and bring out Outram and Havelock in person (with the poor old Gravedigger hardly able to hobble along) just so that they could greet Sir Colin as he covered the last few furlongs?
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It is believed that shortly afterwards gravediggers stole his body, which ended up on a dissecting table in Cambridge, where a horrified acquaintance recognised it.
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He also admits that the job of the gravedigger is a very sensitive position because, as he says himself, everyone is famous in their own right.
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A gravedigger at the site said more than 300 people were buried there.
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The unfortunate woman stood accused of the murder of the workhouse gravedigger and pleaded her innocence to the last.
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The Stalinist bureaucracy has proven to be - as Trotsky predicted - the gravedigger of the October Revolution.
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As always, the gravedigger, after throwing in his handful of earth, had announced in a loud voice we were all invited to the traditional ham tea in the schoolroom.
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Finally, the gravediggers had to dig down 13 feet through the snow and into ground hardened by six weeks of frost.
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The real star is director Ava Roy, whose masterful use of the entire island was both subtle and innovative; at times organic (the gravedigger scene was on a small mountain of rubble) and striking (Ophelia's madness was played inside a wide open hospital room threaded with white twine, empty birdcages, and lilting bird down.)
Lauren Gunderson: Wild and Whirling Words: An Audacious Hamlet on Alcatraz
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Barnardo Pip Donaghy is also the player king and the gravedigger.
Multiple Personalities at Play
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Or, of a skull he holds up to the gravedigger, "As if 'twere Cain's jawbone that did the first significant pause murder.
Hamlet – review
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Totodet was still traumatized by his job as the jail's "gravedigger," dumping hundreds of his fellow prisoners into mass graves.
Reed Brody: Justice Denied in Africa
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It spent months talking to everyone from gravediggers to doctors, deliberately avoided counting military deaths, and came up with 37,000 civilian killed.
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You are born here, they will not hurt you" so the gravedigger has predicted for his daughter, which will turn out to be true.
The Gravedigger's Daughter by Joyce Carol Oates: Book summary
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No final words are spoken, no ceremony is performed, and the only witness is the gravedigger.
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The only job he found was as a gravedigger.
Christianity Today
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The actor who played the creepy gravedigger in the Van Helsing movie is Tom Stevenson.
Helsing Movie | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles
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In 1936 the Schwarts, an immigrant family desperate to escape Nazi Germany, settle in a small town in upstate New York, where the father, a former high school teacher, is demeaned by the only job he can get: gravedigger and cemetery caretaker.
The Gravedigger's Daughter by Joyce Carol Oates: Book summary
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The mix-up occurred at the burial of a Middlesbrough woman whose interment had to be delayed for three hours while gravediggers set to work.
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He said they employed two gardening staff and five gravediggers to carry out maintenance of the cemeteries including grass cutting, grave maintenance and burial ceremonies.
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He dismissed Stalin, Patenaude reports, as an "outstanding mediocrity" and the "gravedigger" of the revolution.
Undefined
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The gravedigger named Freddy was sitting on the grass at the side of the shed, his back against a fertilizer bag.
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I have decided to quit my job and become a gravedigger.
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His early, all-male Hamlet, complete with semi-naked gravediggers, had the newspapers, both tabloid and broadsheet, fulminating at his audacity.
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Could the devil be working through the revengeful gravedigger, or had the wine master simply added too many chemicals by mistake?
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It was found in 1992 by a gravedigger, who'd been waiting for a funeral cortège to arrive when he noticed that one of the stones they were going to put the coffin on had some Egyptian-looking scratches in it.
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It also meant hospitals reduced to emergency cover by striking medical aides, and the dead left unburied by striking municipal gravediggers.
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Hamlet asks the gravediggers who is to be buried, but he receives riddles instead of answers.
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The procedure took place at night, and, in order that the gravediggers could see what they were doing, a large fire was lit in the graveyard.
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In another class, a teacher used different film excerpts of the gravedigger's scene from Hamlet and led her students in a spirited interpretation of the different versions.
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When Hamlet banters with the gravediggers, he becomes a clown himself, even if the subject matter is mortality.
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When Hamlet banters with the gravediggers, he becomes a clown himself, even if the subject matter is mortality.
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He eventually found her, lying dead, so slept next to her, only for them both to be collected by the gravediggers.
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When Hamlet banters with the gravediggers, he becomes a clown himself, even if the subject matter is mortality.
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The gravedigger filled the grave.
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Famously, he spent a spell as a Highgate Cemetery gravedigger, and was later also deported from Spain for vagrancy while busking in Barcelona.
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Before sunrise, they were joined by their other children at the cemetery as gravediggers worked by spotlight to raise the small coffin.
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In fact, for many people, they couldn't even afford the fees of the gravediggers and their loved ones were buried with other coffins in a pile.
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Ophelia and Gertrude are played by the same actor there are just six performers in all, and the gravedigger scene is acted in dumb show right at the beginning, to a roaring track by Godspeed You!
Thomas Ostermeier: 'Hamlet? The play's a mess'
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In the first film of the festival, Ludwig, a gravedigger who has spent all his working life at the cemetery, loses his job and tries to fit into the world of the living.
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‘Death will arrive early this year,’ says this bookkeeper of mortality, as he watches the sweating gravediggers plunge their spades into the hard, reddish-brown earth.
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Who played that creepy gravedigger in the Van Helsing movie?
Helsing Movie | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles
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At the muddy cemetery, where gravediggers have opened up two new tracts during the past three days, relatives opened the tiny coffin of the eight-year-old, touching his forehead and kissing him goodbye.
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At the height of his career, Joseph-Guichard Duverney (1648-1730), a professor of anatomy at the Jardin du Roi in Paris and the “chief dissector” of the Paris Academy of Sciences, was famous for his public lectures and especially, dissections, not only of various animals, but also of humans that had sometimes been obtained by bribing the gravediggers.
Archive 2009-09-01
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Also patron of amputees, basketweavers, gravediggers, and hermits; he is invoked against eczema.
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I looked all around again; over on the far side of the cemetery some of the gravediggers were filling in after a funeral earlier that morning, but no one was anywhere close.
