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- noun Plural form of
graverobber .
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Examples
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Uneasy graverobbers One-Eye and Pointyface return from looting the mountains to Skrubtown, an orc gang stronghold.
Image Comics for February 2010 | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News 2009
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It was only a short while after the rock had been rolled away from the cave entrance, the graverobbers thwarted in their search for gold, their failure illuminated by the rising sun to the east.
four-leafed clover James Claffey 2012
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Any flick starring those two and about the true story of two 19th century graverobbers who provided cadavers to an Edinburgh Medical School is certainly one I'm going to keep my eyes on.
Archive 2009-10-01 Reel Fanatic 2009
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Any flick starring those two and about the true story of two 19th century graverobbers who provided cadavers to an Edinburgh Medical School is certainly one I'm going to keep my eyes on.
Free Tom Waits and a ton of fun news Reel Fanatic 2009
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The book's plot is pretty straightforward: the Grossbart Brothers, Manfried and Hegel, are graverobbers forced by their despicable actions to flee across plague ravaged medieval Europe.
Archive 2009-11-01 2009
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Early Buzz: A dark comedy about graverobbers starring Dominic Monaghan and Ron Perlman - how could anyone not be excited for this?
Alex's Highlights From the 2009 Slamdance Film Festival « FirstShowing.net 2008
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The story is a fairly typical Conan Doyle plot, as a client explains that Joseph Haydn's skull, which we see being removed in the first scene of the book by graverobbers and is now being shown in London, has been stolen.
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The movie starts with a graverobber doing what graverobbers do best, robbing graves, of course.
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Set in the late 1800's, a duo of bumbling graverobbers begin to unearth peculiar corpses.
Alex's Highlights From the 2009 Slamdance Film Festival « FirstShowing.net 2008
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This story is fascinating in how it highlights how little has changed, in substance or detail, since the 19th Century, with its Burke and Hare scandals, its graverobbers and resurrectionists, popular fear of the safety of the body after death, and the lucrative nature of the ethically slippery human remains.
Archive 2007-12-01 JE 2007
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