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As a grave-digger in his youth, Phipps had learned enough about getting rid of unpleasant truths.
Unearthly Asylum P. J. Bracegirdle 2010
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John's white suit was said to identify a clergyman, Ringo's sombre wear an undertaker, and George's denim a grave-digger, while a "coded" number plate allegedly indicated that Paul was dead, a seeming truth confirmed by the bare feet with which he stepped onto the crossing.
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Hamlet may complain of the grave-digger -- Has this fellow no feeling of his business, that he sings at grave-making?
theme and world-building marycatelli 2010
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It still has to harmonize, like, say, the grave-digger scene in Hamlet or the scene with the porter in MacBeth.
theme and world-building marycatelli 2010
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As a grave-digger in his youth, Phipps had learned enough about getting rid of unpleasant truths.
Unearthly Asylum P. J. Bracegirdle 2010
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The grave-digger took some more earth on his shovel.
Les Miserables 2008
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“So you are not a grave-digger, then?” returned Fauchelevent, clutching at this branch, feeble as it was.
Les Miserables 2008
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None the less, he had set two men to chattering: the porter, in the convent, and he knew the singularities of their parlor, and the grave-digger, at the cemetery, and he was acquainted with the peculiarities of their sepulture; in this way, he possessed a double light on the subject of these nuns, one as to their life, the other as to their death.
Les Miserables 2008
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After which, go whither I push thee, the grave-digger is there; the Pantheon for some of us: all falls into the great hole.
Les Miserables 2008
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The grave-digger puts the corpses in the grave, and I put the grave-digger in my pocket.
Les Miserables 2008
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