| 单词 | gravedigger |
| 例句 | He walks up to the gravedigger and puts a hand on his shoulder. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z The bearded gravedigger, dressed in a filthy plaid shirt, turns to me and then back to my mother’s plot. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z It's just the six of us and two gravediggers, who stand a few meters away under a cluster of trees, their hands resting on their shovels. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z The gravediggers sweated heavily and knew their business and their brogue was Irish. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z It was the first gravedigger, the man who had crossed swords so briefly with Falconer a few days before. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z He was a rambler out of South Carolina and found his way to slave catching after a hardscrabble sequence: dockhand, collection agent, gravedigger. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z The two “gravediggers” had grabbed me by the neck: “Leave him alone. Can’t you see that he’s dead?” Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Now that I heard his voice, I knew who he was—the first gravedigger in the play. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z When the family left the gravesite, followers of Malcolm X would not let the coffin be covered by the white gravediggers who had stood a little distance away, waiting. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z It was the second gravedigger, the hefty old man who had blocked my way on the stair. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z The bodies of the indigent dead were carted to the potter’s field and dumped, but no gravediggers were there to bury them. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z “The year they shot them Irish people down in the streets. Was a good year for guns and gravediggers, I know that.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z I was not quite halfway to the bottom when the burly, greybearded man who had played the second gravedigger suddenly appeared at the foot of the stairs. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z At night he slept, exhausted as a gravedigger, too tired even to dream. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Then, two “gravediggers” grabbed him by the head and feet and threw him from the wagon, like a sack of flour. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z The other guy, the one who planted my headstone, drags the gravedigger away. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Tents were set up at the cemeteries so that gravediggers could rest but never be far from their ceaseless work. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z I cringed at the thought of becoming a gravedigger, but it was better than searching for work at Chicago’s sweatshops and slaughterhouses. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Old Ben stopped the wagon next to the open hole near the iron fence, then climbed down and walked to where Nehemiah the gravedigger was waiting. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z After the gates to the mausoleum had been locked and the family, friends, and gravediggers had retired, I was left alone among the flowers that had escaped Barrabas’s hunger and accompanied Rosa to the cemetery. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z We just stand while the casket is lowered into the ground, and after ten minutes of respectful silence, the gravediggers move up from behind us to begin filling the open hole with dirt. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z He threw the gold coin into the grave with Laura, then he pushed more earth into the hole, to hide the coin from acquisitive gravediggers. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z One of the gravediggers then jumped in and covered the hole with wooden planks and a reed mat. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z Those few Philadelphians he encountered shunned him, just as they shunned the black nurses, gravediggers, carters of the dead, doctors, bloodletters, and anyone who worked at or even visited Bush Hill. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z There weren’t enough gravediggers to bury the hundreds dying each week. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z I step in, sit down, and rest my back against the side the gravedigger hasn’t finished with yet. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Most were attached to labor battalions, as cooks and stevedores, laborers and gravediggers. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Two gravediggers stand over their shovels as, metres from me, a man scrubs another man's arm in raw chicken. Meet the incredible Mr Goodwin, daredevil extraordinaire 2013-03-01T14:00:00Z Two rubbish-pickers who find a corpse are played for laughs as much as Hamlet's gravediggers. Natalie Haynes's guide to TV detectives: #15 – Montalbano 2012-08-13T10:31:04Z She would then instruct the gravediggers to bury the bodies in plots that were already occupied. Burr Oak manager sent to prison for 12 years 2011-10-31T20:11:00Z She chronicles the gallows humor of gravediggers who buried their own mothers and the tempered optimism of cryonics operators tasked with keeping clients’ bodies frozen until science can bring them back to life. Here Are the Nitty-Gritty Details of Death Nobody Wants to Talk About 2022-08-16T04:00:00Z Ms. Foster’s Gertrude is somewhat hampered by the textual trims, to the point that her brief performance as the second gravedigger, in which she sports a woolly Cockney accent, is almost as memorable. Theater Review: Michael Benz in ‘Hamlet’ at the Schimmel Center 2012-10-03T21:57:28Z The local singer/artist possesses a veteran gravedigger's worn timbre and claims songs that echo like desperate streetcorner serenades hurdling down back alleys late at night. Pitchfork Day 1 wrap-up: Feist, Japandroids, Big K.R.I.T., rain 2012-07-14T05:09:00Z At ACT, he’s played the father of cloned sons in “A Number,” a Civil War officer in “Mourning Becomes Electra,” a gravedigger in the grisly black comedy “A Skull in Connemara.” Pamela Reed, Kevin Tighe at home in ACT production 2013-05-30T19:45:47Z She works as a gravedigger, so finding brains isn't a problem. Comics: Flaws aside, animated 'All-Star Superman' still fun 2011-03-01T19:20:03Z Reder became a gravedigger in the huge burial pits at Belzec and was one of only two inmates known to survive it. Two New Books Look at the Holocaust in Civic and Military Terms 2017-01-03T05:00:00Z Claes Oldenburg hired gravediggers to excavate and refill a hole in it, to form an “invisible monument.” Tatiana Trouvé Unwinds History in Public Art Project 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z The exposed wood timbers were later carved with ghoulish images of gravediggers’ tools, skulls, crossbones and characters doing the “dance of death.” Europe’s dead still speak to the living 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z Will the gravedigger, still shoveling, as the lights fall, eventually fill in the hole? Review: ‘Viktor’ Is Vintage Pina Bausch, Complete With Gravedigger 2016-09-04T04:00:00Z Christopher Saul shines as a busily blustering Polonius and in particular a mordantly funny gravedigger. Theater Review: Michael Benz in ‘Hamlet’ at the Schimmel Center 2012-10-03T21:57:28Z Monaghan showed up at that time as both a one-man chorus and a gravedigger, which in the world of those plays were more or less the same. Review: All the World’s a Grave in the Druid ‘Richard III’ 2019-11-10T05:00:00Z He would “go down in history as the gravedigger of this institution,” wrote a commentator in Krytyka Polityczna, a highbrow left-wing magazine. A Polish Museum Turns to the Right, and Artists Turn Away 2020-01-08T05:00:00Z It's the clowning of Waiting for Godot, and of the gravediggers in Hamlet who, as they joke, also discuss whether Ophelia's suicide debars her from a Christian burial. The wisdom of clowns 2011-03-17T07:59:00Z My father supervised the funeral services and there were gravediggers, grasscutters and a shire horse. Experience: I grew up in a cemetery 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z He drifted throughout the West, finding work in a Nabisco factory and as a cowboy, lumberjack and gravedigger. Rod McKuen dies at 81; poetry and songs sold millions and drew critical scorn in the 1960s and ’70s 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z For instance, the last play that I did before the pandemic, I played the gravedigger in “Hamlet.” 97-year-old actor: ‘I enjoy working with other people, particularly young — well, in my case, they’re all younger than I am’ 2021-10-18T04:00:00Z When the mass deportations to Chelmno were underway, many of the Jewish gravediggers were executed at the end of each day’s shift. Two New Books Look at the Holocaust in Civic and Military Terms 2017-01-03T05:00:00Z The targets of his search included a highway grass cutter, a gravedigger and a janitor, all of whose musical talents were at the time basically unknown. Chris Strachwitz, Who Dug Up the Roots of American Music, Dies at 91 2023-05-10T04:00:00Z More than half of Gaza's population is already displaced, crammed hospitals lacking electricity and medicine are turning away the injured and gravediggers are running out of cemetery places. US, allies try to craft Gaza endgame as deaths, destruction mount 2023-11-03T04:00:00Z A call went out on social media on Tuesday to see if anyone knew any gravediggers. Sudan conflict: Call for gravediggers in Omdurman as fighting intensifies 2023-08-09T04:00:00Z On Monday afternoon, half a dozen gravediggers took a break in the shade, waiting for the latest coffin to inter at the cemetery, called Lychakiv. Digging Up Old Graves to Make Room for Newly Fallen Soldiers 2023-06-19T04:00:00Z Berger, who lost 20 kilograms to see the chamber himself, believes the stones show ancient gravediggers excavated the pit, digging up dirt and stones, setting them aside, and then using them to cover the body. Was a small-brained human relative the world’s first gravedigger—and artist? 2023-06-04T04:00:00Z The gravedigger’s papers authorizing him to dispose of the bodies from Syria’s prisons were signed and stamped by Mr. Mamlouk. After American’s Killing in Syria, F.B.I. Builds War Crimes Case Against Top Officials 2023-04-17T04:00:00Z One of the gravediggers took pride in pointing out to visiting journalists that the caskets were placed not on the ground but on individual stands “in a dignified manner.” In Bleak Russian Cemetery, Sea of Crosses Signals War’s True Toll 2023-02-15T05:00:00Z A strike by council gravediggers in Liverpool caused national outrage as dead bodies piled up. When gravediggers went on strike 2023-01-06T05:00:00Z Their families were overcome with grief as gravediggers shoveled soil on top of their coffins. Digging Up Old Graves to Make Room for Newly Fallen Soldiers 2023-06-19T04:00:00Z He was greeted by the young parish priest, diocesan officials from Lafayette, a medical examiner, gravediggers, a pair of police officers and several siblings of the Richard family, whose sister he was there to see. The Miraculous Life and Afterlife of Charlene Richard 2022-12-20T05:00:00Z “Hundreds of bodies flowed out. Some human beings looked skeletal because they were starved. Others had their guts spilling out. I would see a river of parts,” the gravedigger said. After American’s Killing in Syria, F.B.I. Builds War Crimes Case Against Top Officials 2023-04-17T04:00:00Z Three gravediggers in tattered jackets looked on with their hands folded solemnly. In Bleak Russian Cemetery, Sea of Crosses Signals War’s True Toll 2023-02-15T05:00:00Z If you're young enough not to remember that time there were months of widespread walkouts bringing misery in freezing temperatures, rubbish in the streets and gruesomely, even a gravediggers' strike. Laura Kuenssberg: Is this the new winter of workers' discontent? 2022-11-26T05:00:00Z His father came to the United States from Italy as an adolescent and worked on railroads, in construction and as a gravedigger, with Mr. Primo sometimes helping him in the latter job. Al Primo, creator of ‘eyewitness’ local news, dies at 87 2022-10-05T04:00:00Z The gravediggers resumed their grim task of burying the war’s dead. In Bucha, a Kyiv suburb haunted by war, a family says goodbye to a fallen soldier. 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z “Their bodies were still warm, just executed,” the gravedigger said. After American’s Killing in Syria, F.B.I. Builds War Crimes Case Against Top Officials 2023-04-17T04:00:00Z No gravediggers or forklifts were on hand — Lily Buerkle, Congressional’s director of site sales and funerals, said the ashes had already been interred in vaults beneath the ground. 170 dead bodies went unclaimed in D.C. Now the city is honoring them. 2022-10-09T04:00:00Z And Frank Diger, the cemetery owner who had employed my Basque grandfather, Bakersfield’s best gravedigger. As a young man, I traveled the High Sierra by mule. After 59 years, I tried it again 2022-10-01T04:00:00Z In a macabre drama, as the family wilted at the gravesite in the August heat, gravediggers climbed over stinking body bags in the back of a truck, checking the tags for the missing body. ‘We Do Not Want Unknown Graves’: The Struggle to Identify Bucha’s Victims 2022-09-03T04:00:00Z The workers who handle Ukraine’s dead — including gravediggers and coroners — carry deep psychic wounds. A Looming Threat 2022-06-19T04:00:00Z From gravediggers to morticians, funeral directors to coroners, these workers carry deep psychic wounds of war — and have few others who can relate to them. Ukraine’s Death Workers: ‘If You Take It All Close to Heart, You Go Mad’ 2022-06-18T04:00:00Z In Irpin, on the outskirts of Kyiv, a wiry gravedigger shoveled earth from the ground surrounded by hundreds of other new tombs adorned with flowers and photos of the deceased. AP PHOTOS: Ukraine war etched on faces of wounded, bereaved 2022-04-29T04:00:00Z The following day, the gravediggers at the Lychakiv buried two more men. Ukraine war: The lonely funeral of a young soldier in Ukraine 2022-03-20T04:00:00Z An Orthodox priest blessed the graves with incense, as the gravediggers bent over a fence, coughing and spitting, heads hanging. ‘We Do Not Want Unknown Graves’: The Struggle to Identify Bucha’s Victims 2022-09-03T04:00:00Z A lot of people think of gravediggers as a lonely bunch of guys too. My job: What it's like digging graves for a living 2022-01-26T05:00:00Z He believes the precariousness of life and the dilemmas that people like his fictional gravedigger face are what can make great drama. How film-school reject Khadar Ahmed is winning prizes and hearts 2021-10-31T04:00:00Z Ironically, as a gravedigger, Guled waits for the deaths of others in order to make the money which could mean his wife survives. The Gravedigger's Wife: Somali love story wins Africa's top film prize 2021-10-24T04:00:00Z Afterwards, he stood silently, looking at the grave, the sole mourner left, alone with the gravediggers as they cleared away their tools. Ukraine war: The lonely funeral of a young soldier in Ukraine 2022-03-20T04:00:00Z But as the family waited on a bench in the graveyard, flowers in hand, the gravediggers could not find body bag No. 153. ‘We Do Not Want Unknown Graves’: The Struggle to Identify Bucha’s Victims 2022-09-03T04:00:00Z In literature, often a character couldn't get another job and ended up as a gravedigger. My job: What it's like digging graves for a living 2022-01-26T05:00:00Z “According to my dad and my aunts, my grandfather Coleman was the gravedigger there and was supposedly the last person buried in the graveyard.” ‘These are our ancestors’: Descendants of enslaved people are shifting plantation tourism 2021-10-03T04:00:00Z Once a wider pit was dug, the gravediggers hacked a trench into the hard soil at the bottom, pointing toward Mecca. After Airport Bombing, an Afghan Family Buries a Father, and Hope 2021-08-27T04:00:00Z Behind the gravedigger was a stretcher with the body wrapped in a green blanket with religious verses in elaborate gold-colored script. Afghans already mourning their country begin burying their dead 2021-08-27T04:00:00Z In a cemetery on the outskirts of Manaus, a gravedigger walked among the graves. As vaccinations accelerate and the coronavirus retreats, Brazil finally allows itself to hope for better days 2021-07-16T04:00:00Z The first phase of Zimbabwe’s vaccination campaign, which relied on Sinopharm, targeted front-line workers such as health care workers, border officials, gravediggers, and journalists. Zimbabwe’s president gets shot of Sinovac in Victoria Falls 2021-03-24T04:00:00Z A group of gravediggers in Columbus, Ohio, who just negotiated a 3 percent raise. Organizing Gravediggers, Cereal Makers and, Maybe, Amazon Employees 2021-03-23T04:00:00Z Only on Sunday — two days after the slaughter — were gravediggers allowed to set about their grim task; one of them buried 26 corpses in the graveyard of the Abune Aregawi Church, survivors said. In an out-of-sight war, a massacre comes to light 2021-03-19T04:00:00Z Now others were giving the gravedigger a rest and taking turns with a shovel. Afghans already mourning their country begin burying their dead 2021-08-27T04:00:00Z She had come to see if a gravedigger had marked the cement with an X, the common way families are alerted that exhumation is imminent. The indignity of Philippines' 'homeless' dead: leased graves that expire 2021-03-03T05:00:00Z While chatting with a gravedigger, Bowers got a piece of advice that’s stuck with him ever since. Burial vault company workers say they try to do their best 2021-02-21T05:00:00Z Others count graves on satellite images, or ask gravediggers, as in the 2014 Ebola outbreak in West Africa. A Continent Where the Dead Are Not Counted 2021-01-02T05:00:00Z Tribal elders, community workers and gravediggers who provide services to grieving families were among those in the next priority group, followed by high-risk medical patients, teachers and then the general population. Lummi Nation begins COVID-19 vaccinations, starting with 300 doses 2020-12-17T05:00:00Z He went to a local cemetery and asked a gravedigger to bury her there, later helping other grieving owners to do the same. Myanmar doctor battles to keep country's best known pet cemetery open 2020-12-17T05:00:00Z “Our schooling must never nurture wreckers or gravediggers of socialism,” Mr. Xi said in a speech in 2018 that was recently published in a book of his comments on ideology. China’s Combative Nationalists See a World Turning Their Way 2020-12-14T05:00:00Z He sees no end in sight in this time of prayer cards and gravediggers. For a border funeral home that survived the cartels, the coronavirus crisis is worse 2020-12-11T05:00:00Z He left school at 15 and worked menial jobs before becoming a gravedigger and truck driver. Peter Sutcliffe, ‘Yorkshire Ripper’ who terrorized England in the 1970s, dies at 74 2020-11-13T05:00:00Z A gravedigger, of course, who “kissed so hard her mouth filled with blood / Then he left her to cry where the red oaks die.” Spoooky, scaaaary: The ultimate Halloween-in-quarantine playlist 2020-10-26T04:00:00Z In the absence of family processions, gravediggers desperate for money took over the task of transporting the dead bodies, dropping them in mass graves. Medieval Europeans didn’t understand how the plague spread. Their response wasn’t so different from ours now. 2020-10-14T04:00:00Z “There are only three available gravediggers at the moment, so I thought I might as well put these people to work with them,” Suyono told Tribun News, according to a translation by USA Today. Indonesian official orders coronavirus victims' graves be dug by people busted without masks 2020-09-21T04:00:00Z Rider Sol Sol, 48, said he and a crew of gravediggers buried up to 30 people a day at the height of the pandemic. Peru’s Indigenous turn to ancestral remedies to fight virus 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z In Nigeria, Tanzania, Burundi and Somalia, there were attempts to obscure early outbreaks: but medical professionals, victims, ambulance drivers – even gravediggers – reported a different story. Covering covid-19 in Africa: 'The virus cannot stop this life and energy' 2020-09-06T04:00:00Z During the 1970s, he worked at a filling station, as a hospital attendant and as a gravedigger. Peter Green, 1960s guitar hero and co-founder of Fleetwood Mac, dies at 73 2020-07-26T04:00:00Z Even in normal times, life is a battle for the 300 or so gravediggers who work in the state capital’s 22 cemeteries. 'We suffer in silence': coronavirus takes heavy toll on Brazil's army of gravediggers 2020-07-22T04:00:00Z Asked on April 20 about the surging number of deaths, he responded: “I’m not a gravedigger, OK?” AP Explains: Bolsonaro has jousted at virus fears for months 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z A regional human rights body expressed its “alarm” at hospitals leaving at least six patients to die in the street and fearful gravediggers turning away grieving families. Bolivia in danger of squandering its head start over coronavirus 2020-07-03T04:00:00Z Already, in southern Yemen, gravediggers can’t keep up with the dead and dying, she says. Toxic mix of violence and virus sweeps poorest countries, warns war reporter 2020-06-27T04:00:00Z In April, gravediggers at the cemetery Vila Formosa buried 1,654 people, an increase of 500 from the previous month. Brazil is exhuming graveyards to make room for increased burials amid coronavirus 2020-06-13T04:00:00Z “We suffer in silence,” admitted Luiz Silva, a veteran gravedigger, who said he and his colleagues felt a mix of sadness and angst at their work. 'We suffer in silence': coronavirus takes heavy toll on Brazil's army of gravediggers 2020-07-22T04:00:00Z In April, gravediggers at Vila Formosa buried 1,654 people, up more than 500 from the previous month. Brazil’s biggest cemetery to exhume graves to free up space 2020-06-12T04:00:00Z If asked, they are told to say that the dead are “unidentified bodies from the war,” according to several residents and one gravedigger. Yemen’s rebels crack down as COVID-19 and rumors spread 2020-06-09T04:00:00Z “The work of a gravedigger doesn’t get much recognition,” he said. AP Photos: In Mexico, pandemic’s ‘last link,’ gravediggers 2020-06-08T04:00:00Z “The work of a gravedigger doesn’t get much recognition,” he said. AP Photos: In Mexico, pandemic’s ‘last link,’ gravediggers 2020-06-08T04:00:00Z Paulo Lotufo, a University of São Paulo epidemiologist, hailed gravediggers as the unsung heroes of the pandemic: amateur disease detectives who helped grieving families while simultaneously helping track the virus’ progression and impact across Brazil. 'We suffer in silence': coronavirus takes heavy toll on Brazil's army of gravediggers 2020-07-22T04:00:00Z Asked by a reporter about the surging number of deaths on April 20, Bolsonaro responded, “I’m not a gravedigger, OK?” Death and denial in Brazil’s Amazon capital 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z The gravediggers of the city, one of the biggest in West Africa, say they are working overtime. Covid-19 Outbreak in Nigeria Is Just One of Africa’s Alarming Hot Spots 2020-05-17T04:00:00Z For now, neighbors regularly stand guard at the cemetery, worried about an unannounced return of the gravediggers. ’The land belonged to our ancestors’: Trump’s business partner in Indonesia exhumed graves in West Java to build resort 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z In the city’s overcrowded cemeteries, gravediggers last month stacked coffins three layers deep in wide mass graves to meet the demand for burials. Latin America’s Outbreaks Now Rival Europe’s. But Its Options Are Worse. 2020-05-12T04:00:00Z Some days, only 30 or 40 burials were taking place at Vila Formosa, the gravedigger said. 'We suffer in silence': coronavirus takes heavy toll on Brazil's army of gravediggers 2020-07-22T04:00:00Z Hospital workers and gravediggers seethe on their way to work. While other countries look to open up, Brazil can’t find a way to shut down 2020-05-10T04:00:00Z Six weeks later it is taking a terrible toll, with gravediggers so overworked that two men were this week forced to bury their own father. 'Utter disaster': Manaus fills mass graves as Covid-19 hits the Amazon 2020-04-30T04:00:00Z But nothing like this: In January 2019, gravediggers came to unearth corpses where his Muslim ancestors had rested since the 19th century, said Mulyana and two others who witnessed the excavations. ’The land belonged to our ancestors’: Trump’s business partner in Indonesia exhumed graves in West Java to build resort 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z Atop a shaded hill at the edge of São Paulo, the gravedigger thinks he knows the truth. Limits on coronavirus testing in Brazil are hiding the true dimensions of Latin America’s largest outbreak 2020-04-22T04:00:00Z Braga is an infrequent churchgoer, despite his wife being an evangelical pastor – but working as a gravedigger he found it impossible not to reflect on the fragility of human existence. 'We suffer in silence': coronavirus takes heavy toll on Brazil's army of gravediggers 2020-07-22T04:00:00Z A single, white rose was placed on the coffin by a gravedigger in gloves. No wake, no funeral, just prayers in a cemetery 2020-04-01T04:00:00Z When the bodies finally reached cemeteries, the gravediggers were so ill, there was no one to bury the dead. Coronavirus will radically alter the U.S. 2020-03-19T04:00:00Z She had already been grieving: Her husband had died about a week before the gravediggers came. ’The land belonged to our ancestors’: Trump’s business partner in Indonesia exhumed graves in West Java to build resort 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z A gravedigger at São Paulo’s Vila Formosa Cemetery, one of Latin America’s largest, said he started noticing strange deaths in early March — weeks before Brazil’s first confirmed coronavirus death. Limits on coronavirus testing in Brazil are hiding the true dimensions of Latin America’s largest outbreak 2020-04-22T04:00:00Z Daybell reportedly worked as a gravedigger more than 28 years ago while attending Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, owned by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Deseret News reported Tuesday. 'Cult mom' Lori Vallow's husband Chad Daybell emailed her about building 'white camps,' worked college job as a gravedigger 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z When a woman reaches her 60s on Kihnu, she starts to prepare for her own funeral by sewing herself beautiful clothes, and knitting gloves for the younger men she has selected to be her gravediggers. 'I photographed 35 women, 10 are still alive': tragedy of the Isle of Women 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z Her fight on behalf of striking New York City archdiocesan gravediggers against the archdiocese made news in the 1950s. Dorothy Day was a radical. Now many want the Vatican to make her a saint. 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z The gravediggers disinterred six corpses and put them an ambulance, said three people who were present. ’The land belonged to our ancestors’: Trump’s business partner in Indonesia exhumed graves in West Java to build resort 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z Marx wrote in the "Communist Manifesto," “What the bourgeoisie, therefore, produces, above all, is its own gravediggers.” A new generation is rising up to resist neoliberalism across the globe 2019-11-30T05:00:00Z Daybell went on to publish a book about his experience as a gravedigger titled “One Foot in the Grave: Secrets of a Cemetery Sexton,” which, according to Deseret News, remains available for purchase on Amazon. 'Cult mom' Lori Vallow's husband Chad Daybell emailed her about building 'white camps,' worked college job as a gravedigger 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z This Old Dutch Church’s burying ground harbors gravediggers and graverobbers alike. The Headless Horseman Industrial Complex 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z One of her landlords was a gravedigger, she said, and he introduced her to many locals. New Hampshire couple’s eclectic home a sight to behold 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z All of Dan’s music up to that point had been designed with one goal: to win the heart of his one true love Laurie, the gravedigger’s wife. Daniel Johnston had the biggest heart in indie rock – and magical songs 2019-09-12T04:00:00Z The gravediggers of liberalism believe that their moment has arrived. Perspective | We’re in an anti-liberal moment. Liberals need better answers. 2019-06-21T04:00:00Z Left for dead, Mr Warfaa says he only managed to survive by bribing his gravediggers to spare him. Virginia Uber driver was Somali war criminal 2019-05-21T04:00:00Z But there are elements of all of those men in McConnell, who holds a very special place in that pantheon as what historian Christopher R. Downing called "the gravedigger of democracy." Mitch McConnell, gravedigger of democracy: Majority leader's shocking power grab 2019-05-08T04:00:00Z Armed police patrolled Memorial Park Cemetery in Christchurch on Tuesday, while on the hill gravediggers in high-visibility vests prepared the ground for the coming burials. New Zealand shooting: Ardern says she will never speak suspect's name 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z It looks at the gravediggers — Rikers Island inmates, themselves often victims of the city’s stratification — whose labor is provided by the island’s owner, the Department of Corrections. Review: ‘One Million American Dreams’ weaves a sad tale of New York’s forgotten 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z It may be tempting to exhume these old, and mostly true, arguments to ward off the new gravediggers. Perspective | We’re in an anti-liberal moment. Liberals need better answers. 2019-06-21T04:00:00Z Means: There is literally zero chance one of these creeps isn’t friends with a gravedigger. Who smashed up Karl Marx’s grave? Here are the prime suspects | James Felton 2019-02-06T05:00:00Z He had grown up next to two cemeteries in rural Lithuania, where the gravediggers drank beer and talked between jobs, and so that was how he thought about death, as something commonplace. These 4 New Yorkers Are Experts in Living. What Do They Know That We Don’t? 2019-01-04T05:00:00Z After the entire family hustled for further $88 to pay a local gravedigger, Alexander was finally laid to rest in a cemetery. In Venezuelan crisis, families can't even afford to properly bury the dead 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z He said earthmoving machines, a DNA screening lab, and hepatitis vaccinations for the gravediggers were badly needed, but not to be had. A Year After the End of ISIS Control in Raqqa, a Ruined City Looks to Rebuild 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z “By producing prosperity, capitalism creates its own gravediggers in the form of a comfortable class of intellectuals and politicians,” they write. Opinion | Capitalism besieged 2018-10-28T04:00:00Z Mitch McConnell and the other gravediggers of democracy in the Congress could care less about Trump’s crude language, governing style, character or potential revelations of criminal acts. Donald Trump, Brett Kavanaugh and the path to neoliberal fascism 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, the Kentucky Republican, is becoming "the gravedigger of American democracy," Browning wrote, a role played for Germany beginning in the 1930s by President Paul von Hindenburg. The “gravedigger of American democracy”: Holocaust historian says Mitch McConnell broke politics 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z A Politico cartoonist rendered McCain as a gravedigger, with a headstone – “Maverick RIP” – nearby. When John McCain said he wasn't a maverick – stunning everyone 2018-09-02T04:00:00Z One morning in mid-October, a gravedigger called Abu Ahmed struck his shovel on a paving stone buried under four feet of dirt. A Year After the End of ISIS Control in Raqqa, a Ruined City Looks to Rebuild 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z “He was a great gravedigger,” Jackson declares about his former boss. 10,000 days spent digging graves for New Orleans’ dead 2018-06-03T04:00:00Z Until a thorough investigation, the missing wrecks will remain a messy mystery, and one that gravedigger Illyas is keen to clear up. Lost bones, a mass grave and war wrecks plundered off Indonesia 2018-02-27T05:00:00Z The rest were shot by soldiers, two of the gravediggers said. Myanmar forces and Buddhist villagers torched Rohingya homes, then kil 2018-02-08T05:00:00Z The rest were shot by Myanmar troops, two of the gravediggers said. Special Report: How Myanmar forces burned, looted and killed in a remo 2018-02-08T05:00:00Z But Mosul’s gravediggers, its morgue workers and the volunteers who retrieve bodies from the city’s rubble are keeping count. 9,000-plus died in battle with Islamic State group for Mosul 2017-12-20T05:00:00Z When probed to explain what exactly constitutes a “great gravedigger,” Jackson lists three categories: size, depth and decency. 10,000 days spent digging graves for New Orleans’ dead 2018-06-03T04:00:00Z The other is a red patch with Menendez’s full gravedigger quote. Sen. Robert Menendez tells Justice Department, ‘If you want to prosecute, bring it on’ 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z The rest were shot by soldiers, two of the gravediggers said. Myanmar forces and Buddhist villagers torched Rohingya homes, then kil 2018-02-08T05:00:00Z A second gravedigger, who declined to be identified, confirmed that soldiers had shot some of the men. Special Report: How Myanmar forces burned, looted and killed in a remo 2018-02-08T05:00:00Z The only spadework being done at the event, he opined, was that of gravediggers. Twitter, Trump and the distortion of the public sphere | John Naughton 2017-12-03T05:00:00Z But now the gravedigger was peering over his steering wheel at flames the color of blood, lashing the gray sky above the engulfed plant, so high he couldn’t see the end of it. A small town in Texas. A huge explosion. An unsolved mystery — and the long road back. 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z As for the gravediggers, “I know who they are, they know who they are, and they know I know who they are — and that’s all that matters,” he said. Sen. Robert Menendez tells Justice Department, ‘If you want to prosecute, bring it on’ 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z Schulz called the far-right party “the gravediggers of democracy.” Merkel heads for another term in Germany, but far right spoils the victory party 2017-09-24T04:00:00Z The rest were shot by Myanmar troops, two of the gravediggers said. Special Report: How Myanmar forces burned, looted and killed in a remo 2018-02-08T05:00:00Z He said his company worked with gravediggers to quickly rebury dozens of exposed coffins in cities and towns along Interstate 10, which runs through Beaumont. What Hurricanes Can Dredge Up: Coffins, Canoes and Creatures 2017-09-18T04:00:00Z The gravedigger, still in his truck, thought he was dead until bloodied men came pounding on his window. A small town in Texas. A huge explosion. An unsolved mystery — and the long road back. 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z The government hired 600 gravediggers for individual burials taking place in a cemetery that already holds victims of the 2014-15 Ebola outbreak which killed thousands in the West African nation. Warnings of More Mudslides in Sierra Leone as Toll Hits 350 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z “As a judge, I refuse to be a gravedigger of living evidence,” said Antonio Herman Benjamin, the judge who oversaw the case and voted against Mr. Temer. Court in Brazil Clears President Michel Temer in Campaign Finance Case 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z A second gravedigger, who declined to be identified, confirmed that soldiers had shot some of the men. Special Report: How Myanmar forces burned, looted and killed in a remo 2018-02-08T05:00:00Z It was brazen opportunism, a naked power grab: privately, I’m told, her team wanted the precious “bauble” of going down in history as the gravediggers of the British Labour party. Jeremy Corbyn has caused a sensation – he would make a fine prime minister | Owen Jones 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z The town gravedigger was locking up the cemetery when he saw smoke on the horizon. A small town in Texas. A huge explosion. An unsolved mystery — and the long road back. 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z One of Garrincha's daughters told Reuters a gravedigger informed her that he is likely to be in one of the two graves. Brazil cemetery loses bones of soccer World Cup winner Garrincha 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z Already the largest in the world with more than 5 million plots, the cemetery is adding an average of 20 Mosul soldiers’ graves a day, sometimes up to 190, a gravedigger said. His job is to dismantle bombs — hoping he won't be next to blow up 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z A gravedigger lowered the casket into the ground before family members and friends dropped pink and white roses into the grave. ‘A hole in our hearts’: A 15-year-old girl lost to MS-13 is laid to rest 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z A few weeks ago, a senior Labour MP denounced me as one of the chief gravediggers of the Labour party, and journalists have suggested I should be knighted by the Tory party for my efforts. Jeremy Corbyn has caused a sensation – he would make a fine prime minister | Owen Jones 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z His biggest worry was that capitalism was producing its own gravediggers in the form of an anti-capitalist intelligentsia. Our Schumpeter columnist pens a dark farewell 2016-12-20T05:00:00Z He called the gravedigger over and showed him the problem and then showed him the rat poison. Tending to the Living and the Dead in a Battle-Torn Afghan City 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z Elsewhere, gravediggers were preparing the ground for burial of some of the victims. Colombia repatriates dead as airline’s licensing questioned 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z A team from a village in Slovakia have been crowned the fastest gravediggers in central Europe after seeing off stiff competition from rivals from Poland and Hungary. Slovakian brothers win title of central Europe's fastest gravediggers 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z It was winter, and Cohen thought of the gravediggers: it would be difficult to break the frozen ground. Leonard Cohen Makes It Darker 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z Listeners in Africa wrote to us about the tenderness of the gruff gravedigger who never forgot the faces of the nameless bodies he buried. Compassion fatigue and the optician of Lampedusa - BBC News 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z As Wright and Carlson continued their hunt in the early days, online and in person, they talked to former gravediggers, funeral home directors, genealogical societies and state experts. Research on San Antonio neighborhoods leads to history 2016-06-19T04:00:00Z Organisers say the contest is intended to increase respect and recognition for the gravediggers' profession and attract more people to the job. Hungary gravediggers compete in national race - BBC News 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z His father, a police officer, was murdered, and El Pana held a variety of jobs, among them a gravedigger. Mexican bullfighter 'El Pana' dies a month after being gored 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z Eighteen two-man teams of Hungarian gravediggers are demonstrating their skills for a place in a regional championship to be held in Slovakia. Gravediggers compete in race judged on speed _ and style 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z Organizer Iren Kari said they hoped the race would help boost respect and recognition for gravediggers and attract more people to the job. Gravediggers compete in race judged on speed — and style 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z A former metalworker, he’s now the village gravedigger and has a side job performing massages to relieve hernias. The Toxic Toll of Indonesia's Battery Recyclers 2016-05-31T04:00:00Z Mr. Abaifouta, who was in court for the verdict, had worked in a prison kitchen and a laundry room before he was forced to take on a new role, as gravedigger. Hissène Habré, Ex-President of Chad, Convicted of War Crimes 2016-05-30T04:00:00Z One of the gravediggers who discovered the hair there in 1839 - a Mr J Major - wrote about what happened. Romsey Abbey: The mystery of the hair in the coffin - BBC News 2016-04-23T04:00:00Z So Mustafa - who is originally from Egypt - took on a new role, as a gravedigger. Burying the dead who fail to make it to Europe - BBC News 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z The high proportion of cremations compared to burials is one of the threats to gravediggers’ jobs. Gravediggers compete in race judged on speed — and style 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z Mourners waited in a scorching wind that rattled the flowers’ cellophane wrappers but gave no relief, until a gravedigger in shorts and flip-flops brought a new memorial cross bearing Artyom’s name. The missing: what have they done with our sons? | Lily Hyde 2016-02-03T05:00:00Z The digger, used by gravediggers, then forced open the doors of the chapel. Digger forces open Mexborough chapel doors after mourners locked out - BBC News 2016-01-02T05:00:00Z So, 177 years after Mr Major and his fellow gravediggers found the hair, we finally knew a bit more about it. Romsey Abbey: The mystery of the hair in the coffin - BBC News 2016-04-23T04:00:00Z Of that, the gravedigger then receives between 50 to 70 Egyptian pounds. Life meets death in Egypt's Cairo Necropolis 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z Here there is no ceremony, as the gravedigger tosses the remains on top of tens of thousands of others. Why Greeks are exhuming their parents - BBC News 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z He is a dead court jester whose skull is retrieved from his grave by a gravedigger. 'Empire' recap: Cookie plots revenge as Andre saves the day (again) 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z Abaifouta — jailed because his uncle opposed the Habre government — was part of a group of gravediggers who had to bury the bodies of other prisoners, sometimes 10 a day, sometimes 40. Victims of torture in Chad anticipate justice as dictator's trial proceeds 2015-10-04T04:00:00Z The proceedings opened with our theme song, a light, melancholic melody played on accordion by its composer, No 7, a gravedigger from the Umbrian town of Gubbio, where Saint Francis tamed the wolves. Patti Smith: 'It's not so easy writing about nothing' 2015-09-27T04:00:00Z In many places, mass graves were dug because there weren’t enough coffins or gravediggers to handle the volume of victims, according to published accounts. Bones found during road project may be Spanish flu victims 2015-09-05T04:00:00Z Capitalism produces its own gravediggers and gives them the means to free themselves, and humanity, from economic necessity. Ten books that changed the world 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z Fullard’s journey to becoming a gravedigger, as she calls herself, began in the 1980s, when she was a history and English student at the University of Cape Town. The odd couple: why an apartheid activist joined forces with a murderer 2015-06-06T04:00:00Z At the municipal cemetery, gravediggers have been working double shifts in recent days to handle the burials. Residents in a Mexican neighborhood miss the cartel that protected them 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z At one point, he set up a makeshift studio at a treatment center to make portraits of those on the front lines of the disease, from doctors to gravediggers. Scenes From the Ebola Crisis Earn Photography Pulitzer 2015-04-20T04:00:00Z Can we successfully cooperate with our own gravediggers? The Iran Deal: Forget About Stability, Our Strategy Should Be Survival 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z Ms. Spellecy also said that the wording for the gravedigger’s plaque had already been written — although the two most important words are these: Lawrence Mocha. No Longer Anonymous: Gravedigger Gets His Due at a Psychiatric Hospital 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z Down the hill, at the municipal cemetery, bulldozers are busy clearing new ground, scraping away mounds of rubbish to give the gravediggers more space. Changing behaviour to tackle Ebola 2014-12-01T05:00:00Z By the middle of the month, more than 50 people were dying daily, and coffins and gravediggers were in short supply. The flu pandemic that came to Washington in 1918 killed 2,800, sickened many more The buyer was the gravedigger at the Oude Kerk who made a little money from these transactions, acquiring lots from the hard-pressed and reselling them to those who needed space for the freshly deceased. How Rembrandt dressed his women for death 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z Duquette wanted the job, but was passed over the Major League Baseball — the owners of the franchise at the time — in favor of the clown prince and franchise gravedigger, Jim Bowden. LOVERRO: Orioles — and Nats — will look back on 2014 as a success 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z That Colting used to be a gravedigger at a cemetery near Gothenburg before swapping a shovel for a pen might explain his morbid interest in death. This scary smartwatch shows how much time you have left to live 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z “It’s from the doctor to the person cleaning the ward to the gravedigger.” Tough choices ahead in Ebola vaccine trials 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z Four gravediggers shoveled the moist red clay, which fell with soft thuds into her grave. Ebola outbreak often leaves children alone and terrified 2014-09-27T04:00:00Z “We will need much more space,” said James C. O. Hamilton, the chief gravedigger, as a colleague cleared the bush with his machete. Fresh Graves Point to Undercount of Ebola Toll 2014-09-22T04:00:00Z Protective gloves and masks, worn by the gravediggers, are discarded in the grass. Despair in Luhansk as residents count the dead 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z A gravedigger dug down to a coffin and prised open her lid. Edinburgh fringe 2014: the 10 best jokes so far 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z As the truce held through the day on Tuesday, the gravediggers of Gaza were busy carving out narrow niches in the sandy ground, as more bodies were retrieved from under rubble. As Israel and Hamas claim victory, Gaza residents ask what was gained 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z But critics have claimed the new chair of the BBC Trust will be effectively acting as a "gravedigger", since the job could change radically or even cease to exist within two years. No 10 'meddling in BBC boss search' 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z “It’s a herculean task,” said Mr. Hamilton, the chief gravedigger. Fresh Graves Point to Undercount of Ebola Toll 2014-09-22T04:00:00Z "My uncle, Abed, killed by gangs in 2007," indicating another, while gravediggers cleared the last bit of sandy soil from a hole, less than a meter square, for Salah. Iraqi slaughter swells crowded Shi'ite cemetery 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z He left school at 15 to work as a gravedigger, store-window dresser, sign painter and blues drummer. Felix Dennis, 67, Flamboyant Publisher, Is Dead 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z The longtime gravedigger earned $3.01 an hour at the time, and told Breslin, “Why, it’s an honor for me to be here.” The Men Who Toiled Behind the Scenes at Arlington National Cemetery 2014-06-15T04:00:00Z A. Old proverb: A sportswriter without room service is like a gravedigger without a shovel. Chad: Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show: It’s a dog’s life story, presented by Couch Slouch 2014-02-09T18:54:06Z But the exhaustion of the Ebola gravediggers at King Tom Cemetery, who dig as many as 16 graves a day, indicated that the disease was far from being contained. Fresh Graves Point to Undercount of Ebola Toll 2014-09-22T04:00:00Z And so, after shoveling his last plot last week, Frank Drahos, 74, a gravedigger at Sleepy Hollow Cemetery for nearly 55 years, knew it was time to lay his career to rest. After Nearly 55 Years, Gravedigger Departs Sleepy Hollow 2014-02-03T02:01:28Z But arriving at Delfzijl's Christian cemetery, to pick up the key to the nearby Jewish cemetery, I discover that the gravediggers don't take this for granted. On the trail of SS accused Siert Bruins 2013-10-31T00:18:07Z Hundreds of thousands of burials later, gravediggers realized the airtight conditions kept the corpses from decomposing. Grave Problem: Nothing Is Rotting in the State of Norway 2013-10-11T02:44:12Z Or alternatively, was the work of gravediggers in a hurry. Richard III buried in 'untidy grave' 2013-05-24T04:33:43Z FREETOWN, Sierra Leone — The gravedigger hacked at the cemetery’s dense undergrowth, clearing space for the day’s Ebola victims. Fresh Graves Point to Undercount of Ebola Toll 2014-09-22T04:00:00Z “To a gravedigger, everyone goes into the same hole in the ground,” said Mr. Drahos, who made it his job to tend the plots of former co-workers and relatives of current cemetery workers. After Nearly 55 Years, Gravedigger Departs Sleepy Hollow 2014-02-03T02:01:28Z At the front gate of the wind-swept cemetery, we were met by a gravedigger who wanted to show us something. At War Blog: Mass Grave Found in Aleppo Amid Fierce Syrian Fighting 2013-01-15T17:06:58Z The village gravedigger who discovered the theft said there was no chance of the body again being spirited away at night. 10 people who have been exhumed 2012-11-27T12:31:31Z “You don’t pay for the grave there, just tip the gravediggers,” said Mr. Camacho, 24. In Phoenix, Carwashes Help Groups Raise Money 2012-10-08T05:47:19Z A court order was obtained and a team of pathologists and gravediggers were sent to the remote region. No mass graves in Kenyan delta 2012-09-20T10:58:36Z Those remaining gravediggers honored Mr. Drahos on Friday afternoon with a chocolate cake decorated with the design of a gold shovel. After Nearly 55 Years, Gravedigger Departs Sleepy Hollow 2014-02-03T02:01:28Z The gravediggers are still here, in the form of workers in precarious conditions like the over-exploited workers of factories in the far east. Why Marxism is on the rise again 2012-07-04T19:00:03Z Mr. Khan, the gravedigger in Boniyar, described an almost industrial body disposal process. Kashmiris Await Justice for Realtives Killed in Warfare 2012-06-25T19:19:49Z “She doesn’t want to be the gravedigger for the euro.” Germany Open to Deal on Pooling Euro Debt, With Limits 2012-06-05T02:16:36Z "Is our host a gravedigger as well as an innkeeper?" asked Drake, his eye following the glance I gave at the implements. A Lad of Grit A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea in Restoration Times 2012-04-21T02:00:23.363Z The old clerk was an obstinate believer in it, for he had seen it with his own eyes; the sexton had seen it with his, and two gravediggers had seen it with theirs. Mildred Arkell, Volume II (of 3) A Novel 2012-04-06T02:00:29.933Z After all, I suggest to Rancière, the bourgeoisie has failed to produce its own gravediggers. Why Marxism is on the rise again 2012-07-04T19:00:03Z At present, outbreaks are usually contained by isolating patients and making sure nurses and gravediggers do not touch their bodily fluids. Global Update: Advances Suggest Possible Cures for Ebola and Marburg Virus 2012-03-19T19:48:04Z Next time, though, I'll give somebody a job as a gravedigger, 'stead of a good Samaritan.... Bruce of the Circle A 2012-03-06T03:00:27.120Z That very evening Cecil Mitford sought out and found the Spanish Town gravedigger. The Beckoning Hand and Other Stories 2012-01-10T03:00:17.100Z They were Mr. Davis’s gravediggers but also his mourners. Texas Prisoner Burials Are a Gentle Touch in a Punitive System 2012-01-05T03:33:53Z Flee; here be the executioner and the gravediggers.” The Legend of Ulenspiegel, Volume I (of 2) And Lamme Goedzak, and their Adventures Heroical, Joyous and Glorious in the Land of Flanders and Elsewhere 2011-12-10T03:00:17.800Z There his remains might have quietly and invisibly decomposed but for a mistake by 19th-century gravediggers: they used a type of lime that slowed decomposition instead of hastening it. Skeleton of Ned Kelly, Australian Outlaw and Folk Hero, Is Identified 2011-08-31T23:20:04Z They were mercenaries, the gravediggers said, offering no evidence and saying they were found near the colonel’s compound. As Qaddafi Forces Retreat, a Newly Freed Imam Encourages Forgiveness 2011-08-27T01:21:13Z On the other hand, Tate Wilkinson says that Garrick’s production of Hamlet in 1773 was well received at Drury Lane even by the galleries, “though without their favourite acquaintances the gravediggers.” Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 4 "G" to "Gaskell, Elizabeth" 2011-08-24T02:00:20.690Z "The polis and red coats was there, and the newspaper men in their thousands, and the gravediggers in their tens of thousands...." The Sixth Sense A Novel 2011-08-24T02:00:18.870Z Yet every time the confessed killer points out the grave, the gravediggers come up empty; much of the landscape looks alike, it’s dark out, and anyway the killer claims he was drunk. ArtsBeat Blog: 'The Descendants,' With George Clooney, Will Close New York Film Festival 2011-08-17T16:29:17Z They bought wreaths and the gravedigger took possession of the coffin. The Red Room 2011-08-13T02:00:26.943Z Sometimes the fire increased in intensity; the din became terrible; the earth seemed to be trembling far away down there: it sounded like the heavy strokes of the gravedigger at the bottom of a grave. The Pl?biscite or, A Miller's Story of the War 2011-07-27T02:00:38.240Z Once, however, he ventured to disobey the gravedigger and take with him a tooth which he thought he could use for some little object he was fashioning. Knut Hamsun 2011-07-18T02:00:21.927Z His shoulders slumped, his jaw slackened, and, as his figure warped into the pose of the gravedigger he wheezed out the couplet again. The Secret of Lonesome Cove 2011-06-07T02:00:12.563Z The gravedigger happened to have a fever on All Saints' Day. Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) 2011-05-28T02:00:21.687Z The gravediggers carried each corpse over the sand and lowered it inside a waiting box. Fallen Qaddafi Soldiers Get Respect, if Not Honors 2011-05-17T15:55:02Z The Piazza, or square itself, which was unpaved, stood fetlock-deep in mire and filth; for the gravedigger had more than work enough to do; and the duty of the scavenger was little heeded. Tales from Blackwood Volume 8 2011-04-09T02:00:09.087Z True, there are many fanfares, Ophelia's mad songs, and the gravedigger's song in the last act; but, as a whole, music is kept in a very subordinate position. Shakespeare and Music 2011-04-01T02:00:29.867Z In this way she predates Marx in his description of the exploited and oppressed working people of the world as the gravediggers of bourgeois society. Readers' new meanings for Frankenstein 2011-03-21T13:54:18Z Swiftly he leaps from the saddle; he pulls from off his finger rings of fine gold, and throws them to the gravedigger—"Delve a grave deep and wide, for therein we will walk together." Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) 2011-05-28T02:00:21.687Z Behind him, the gravediggers worked, on this day burying corpses wrapped in green plastic. Fallen Qaddafi Soldiers Get Respect, if Not Honors 2011-05-17T15:55:02Z The sentiment, however, thoroughly accords with the philosophic gravedigger’s gruesome occupation. The Poems and Verses of Charles Dickens 2011-03-11T03:00:15.587Z The rain was sheeting down in earnest when I finally left the place, but the gravediggers were bending to their task, quite oblivious of the downpour. The Charm of Ireland 2011-03-10T03:00:53.650Z A private of the South Wales Borderers tells how some Germans disguised as gravediggers attempted to rush a British trench. The Childrens' Story of the War, Volume 3 (of 10) From the First Battle of Ypres to the End of the Year 1914 2011-02-23T03:00:28.797Z One of the largest graveyards in the world, its Shiite gravediggers and body washers are a barometer of Iraq’s violence. In Iraq, New Leadership but Same Reality 2010-10-01T18:21:00Z Behind him was the cemetery, with its neatly arranged rows, and its gravediggers laboring in midday desert heat. Fallen Qaddafi Soldiers Get Respect, if Not Honors 2011-05-17T15:55:02Z So it was fascinating yesterday to find the World Bank's president, Robert Zoellick, acting as the gravedigger for the once-all powerful dogma. A cautious welcome to the World Bank's rejection of old orthodoxies 2010-09-30T16:25:00Z Such a prayer would be something akin to a gravedigger's for an east wind or a "green Christmas," which, as the adage hath it, "maketh a fat kirkyard." Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 7 We knew that the Germans had a recognized corps of gravediggers," he says, "but we found that the supposed gravediggers now advancing were armed not only with picks and shovels, but with rifles also. The Childrens' Story of the War, Volume 3 (of 10) From the First Battle of Ypres to the End of the Year 1914 2011-02-23T03:00:28.797Z “The war is not over, it’s not over,” said Ali al-Musawi, a gravedigger in the unidentified bodies section. In Iraq, New Leadership but Same Reality 2010-10-01T18:21:00Z At last the gravediggers closed and covered the tops of the boxes. Fallen Qaddafi Soldiers Get Respect, if Not Honors 2011-05-17T15:55:02Z For who knows but that before sunset my brother the gravedigger may be told to build me one of the houses that last till doomsday! Sister Dolorosa and Posthumous Fame A fragrance bright and broken clasps his head, And wildwood airs sing a frayed interlude, While cloaked he comes in a new attitude To play gravedigger if the word be said. Sonnets from the Patagonian Each man had to be cook, housekeeper, hunter, laundryman, shoemaker, blacksmith, bookkeeper, purchasing agent, miner, mason, nurse, doctor, gravedigger, interpreter, surveyor, tailor, jailor, judge, jury and sheriff. Stepsons of Light Ay, he comes here lonesome and alone,' continued the gravedigger, 'when he visits the wife's grave. Thomas Carlyle Famous Scots Series Some old widower who has furnished the gravedigger with two or three wives already. Black Forest Village Stories When these works were prepared for re-sale, fifty years afterwards, some of them yielded picture after picture, peeled off the boards like the waistcoats from the body of the gravedigger in Hamlet! Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 6 "Coucy-le-Château" to "Crocodile" The garrison fired a triple salute, the imams thrice sang their sacred verses, and then came the gravediggers and cast the earth upon the corpse. The Lion of Janina The Last Days of the Janissaries The archbishop hurried toward a grotesquely carved cottage door where lived a gravedigger. The Cathedrals and Churches of the Rhine At the time of the great Egyptian sickness the headsmen were the gravediggers. Pretty Michal Yes, Willie had heard him, and Margery was certainly right in intimating that the young gravedigger was exceptionally fluent in cuss words. A Little Question in Ladies' Rights The gravediggers also perished, and their places were filled by condemned deserters, who went to work with brutal and headlong violence. La Sorcière: The Witch of the Middle Ages After much discussion, the shrewdest gravedigger suggested that, being a Frenchman, the darkest coloured skull must be his. Railway Adventures and Anecdotes extending over more than fifty years You must know that my comrade, Z�b�d�, was the son of the gravedigger of Phalsbourg, and sometimes between ourselves we called him "Gravedigger." The Conscript A Story of the French war of 1813 I afterwards went to the beautiful cemetery of Bologna, beyond the walls and found, besides the superb burial ground, an original of a Custode, who reminded me of the gravedigger in Hamlet. A Letter Book Selected with an Introduction on the History and Art of Letter-Writing "Well, the gravedigger was getting it worse than you, and I guess he had a right to be there, hadn't he?" A Little Question in Ladies' Rights The old gravedigger slowly patrolled the road, his bell in his hand, carrying the news of those who had died from village to village. Legends & Romances of Brittany Orders were received for the transmission of the remains to his native land, and the delicate work of exhuming the corpse was entrusted to some clever gravediggers. Railway Adventures and Anecdotes extending over more than fifty years His hands were sweating so much that it was hard to use the small shovel, but the digging of foxholes had given him experience and the ground was still soft from the gravediggers' work. Dead Ringer The man was a gravedigger—the boy painted inappropriate figures on the coffins. Walter Pieterse A Story of Holland The incredible speed with which the poachers fled seemed to give the young gravedigger an erroneous idea of the fear that his presence inspired. A Little Question in Ladies' Rights He saw a wrinkled old churl trimming the roadside hedge with a bill-hook, and humming a tune like the gravedigger in Hamlet, Act v. Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland Hanging on the thick ropes, the two gravediggers let the coffin heavily down into the grave. Rosinante to the Road Again On the walls and in conspicuous places near the churches and cathedrals in Europe and America, the visitor is usually regaled with the sight of undertakers' signs and gravediggers' advertisements. Child-Life in Japan and Japanese Child Stories No one was at the grave except the assistant gravedigger and his mother. Operas Every Child Should Know Descriptions of the Text and Music of Some of the Most Famous Masterpieces In an old abbey town, a long, long while ago there officiated as sexton and gravedigger in the churchyard one Gabriel Grubb. A Budget of Christmas Tales by Charles Dickens and Others Lastly the intoning of the priests, and the coffin laboriously lowered by the gravediggers' arms to the ends of the ropes, as a cask of wine is lowered into a cellar. Germinie Lacerteux “This is the place,” said the stranger, “where the gravedigger brought us, Lieutenant Guevara and me.” An Eagle Flight A Filipino Novel Adapted from Noli Me Tangere It was Lestiboudois, the gravedigger, who was carrying the church chairs about among the people. Madame Bovary A Tale of Provincial Life The treatment of the illustrious dead by the quick, often reminds me of the gravedigger in Hamlet, and the skull of poor defunct Yorick.”—W. Spare Hours The persons signified symbolically by Saturn are grandparents, and other old persons, day labourers, paupers, beggars, clowns, husbandmen of the meaner sort, and especially undertakers, sextons, and gravediggers. Myths and Marvels of Astronomy The body accordingly lay for eighteen days in the cabin of the gravedigger, until it could be transported to the cemetery of S�vres, where it was finally interred. The Huguenots in France They seem to have been discovered by a gravedigger about 150 years since. Notes and Queries, Number 33, June 15, 1850 A duel between two dormice, with moles as gravediggers. Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy. Upon which he opened them, in the manner of the gravedigger in Hamlet, and showed me every one. The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete In a corner under the wall lay the angular wooden lid which is laid by a gravedigger over an open grave. The Manxman A Novel - 1895 “You’re right, sir,” returned the other, as calmly as possible, without turning a hair; “I’m a gravedigger.” Crown and Anchor Under the Pen'ant The entertainment is followed by a counter-invitation; and the gravedigger is forced to pay a return visit. The Science of Fairy Tales An Inquiry into Fairy Mythology In many towns there were no gravediggers; sympathizing friends made the simple coffin and dug the grave. Customs and Fashions in Old New England Like the gravedigger in Hamlet, they might "cudgel their brains," but all came to the gravedigger's confession at last,—"Mass, I cannot tell." Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847 But, Heaven save us! that crafty gravedigger had taken his precautions too well. Rookwood Your friend, the gravedigger here, will then probably have lots of loot; and, be better able to discharge his debt.” Crown and Anchor Under the Pen'ant One is reminded of the saying of Marx that capitalism produces its own gravediggers. Socialism A Summary and Interpretation of Socialist Principles But quite apart from such irony, the mere picture of the grotesque gravedigger, the black-clad prince, and the skull is a picture in the strongest sense picturesque. Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens Hadria said she had to ask Dodge, the old gravedigger, if he could give a few days’ work in the garden at the Red House. The Daughters of Danaus We learnt afterwards from the gravedigger that some one spent great part of that night in the graveyard, and we believe it to have been Jamie. A Window in Thrums "I paws for an answer," he said in a gravedigger's kind o' a voice. My Man Sandy That is the discordant chorus of the gravediggers in 'Hamlet.' Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) I in my time many thousands have directed, And likewise have as many more dissected, And I never met a gravedigger who to me objected. The Peace Egg and Other tales Mr. Fullerton had made the gravedigger’s acquaintance, and won his hearty regard by many a chat and many a little kindness. The Daughters of Danaus At the gate of the cemetery the few friends turned back and left the lifeless clay to the old gravedigger, who never guessed the honor thus done him. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 14 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Musicians This vexed him, and the wily creature gave an insidious hint to the gravediggers. The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia It was currently reported at the time that the gravediggers were the cause of the shallow graves "as being desirous to have the infection spred that they might gaine by burieng." London and the Kingdom - Volume I Although in the best of health, he addressed the gravedigger and laughingly told him: “Come along with me.” Memorials of the Faithful Mr. Fullerton quoted Dodge as an authority on matters of practical philosophy, and the old gravedigger became a sort of oracle at the Cottage. The Daughters of Danaus Recently a vaudeville "turn" of Hamlet has been presented, where the gravediggers do their gruesome tasks to ragtime; and on every hand we behold the Lyceum giving way to the McClure Continuous, Lim. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 14 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Musicians The gravediggers, enraged, seized shovels and picks and fell upon Nazr-Eddin and began to beat him. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878. But Shakespeare for the moment lived the part, the humour came to him with the part, whether the humour of clowns and gravediggers, of Jaques, or of the moody prince of Denmark. Platform Monologues The gravedigger's wife and children are with the Allemands, he told me, the other side of La Bassée, and he has no news of them or they of him. Diary of a Nursing Sister on the Western Front, 1914-1915 “I never heard that part of the story before,” said Lady Engleton, when the gravedigger had left. The Daughters of Danaus One might tell the tale from the point of view of Laërtes or Claudius or Polonius or the gravedigger; and it would still be a good tale and the same tale. The Victorian Age in Literature We seemed to be in possession of the place, together with the old gravedigger, who stopped his work and escorted us about, but was too stupid to understand even the most intelligent signs. The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 4, April, 1891 It was no neat gravedigger's work that the Danite accomplished; he had made a deep, large hole, but the cavity sloped at the sides so that they could step in and out. The Mormon Prophet I happened to be there looking at the graves, and the French gravedigger told me there was to be another buried this afternoon. Diary of a Nursing Sister on the Western Front, 1914-1915 The old gravedigger paused at last in his toil, leaning on his pickaxe, and bringing a red cotton handkerchief out of his hat to wipe his brow. The Daughters of Danaus "I think he is dead, sir," said the gravedigger. Juliana Horatia Ewing And Her Books And in that same part of the Square—in number 59 or 60, it is said—lived one who cannot be omitted from any story of the Potter's Field: Daniel Megie, the city's gravedigger. Greenwich Village "Well, well," sighed the old gravedigger, "I never thought I should live to bury a man without a head." Ladysmith The Diary of a Siege Nurse was still out; and I crept back to bed without detection, where I dreamed disturbedly of invisible gravediggers all through the night. Brothers of Pity and Other Tales of Beasts and Men The lady knew, and liked to gratify, the gravedigger’s love of long-worded discourse. The Daughters of Danaus There was never perhaps a more extraordinary syllogism since the argal of Shakespeare’s gravedigger. The Unpopular Review, Volume II Number 3 Though this condemned him to a sort of earthy dungeon, or gravedigger's hole, while he worked, yet even when liberated to his meals, naught of a cheery nature greeted him. Israel Potter Our only and original gravedigger, manager in general of village affairs. Memories and Anecdotes Diggory the gravedigger never talks much, but I like to watch him. Brothers of Pity and Other Tales of Beasts and Men Of his skill as a gravedigger tradition is silent; but for a teacher of youth his qualifications were certainly of the humbler sort, making what is generally called an A, B, C schoolmaster. Washington's Birthday It was thoughtless of me, after inquiring about the doctors, to ask about the gravedigger. The Foundations of Japan Notes Made During Journeys Of 6,000 Miles In The Rural Districts As A Basis For A Sounder Knowledge Of The Japanese People If the established unions refused to assume the part of the gravediggers of capitalism, designed for them, as he believed, by the very logic of history, so much the worse for the established trade unions. A History of Trade Unionism in the United States Jimmy, however, has a passion for his ignoble calling; he sings at his work like the gravedigger in "Hamlet." Sketches in the House (1893) The aged gravedigger, bent nearly double, met them where the roads parted. Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895 Poor Cave is so mortified, that he quibbles, and tells you, he pretends only to act a part fit for a man who has one foot in the grave; viz., a gravedigger. The Tatler, Volume 1, 1899 For the undertaker and the gravedigger are as necessary to each other, as Mr. Reid maintained, as a pair of blackbirds in a hedge. A Tale of a Lonely Parish Then I went in, walking straight over the grass towards a gravedigger digging in the sunshine. Aylwin A gravedigger is naturally inferior to a lord, and if he is to be presented at all, he must come on as a clown. Best Russian Short Stories They would have been taken, not for burgers of the two first cities of the land, but for gravediggers and undertakers, who had come here in the discharge of their melancholy offices. The Youth of the Great Elector Some gravediggers will tell you that the natural destiny of the gravestone is the grave! In Search of Gravestones Old and Curious Doubtless the chaplain and the gravedigger—the one throwing on the coffin some verses of Scripture, the other some clods of earth. The Man Who Laughs The words seemed to come, not from the gravedigger's mouth, but from those piles of lamp-blacked coffins which were searing my eyes through four feet of graveyard earth. Aylwin Barefoot woke up the gravedigger's wife, and sent her to Black Marianne. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 08 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes The parochial gravediggers had sometimes a very familiar professional style of dealing with the solemn subjects connected with their office. Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character It might have been wrong, but I could not resist the temptation to steal one or two while the old gravedigger was busy preparing a new tenement. Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 5 Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Switzerland, Part 1 Regrettable as it was, I should have to surrender these two specimens to the coroner and the gravedigger. The Uttermost Farthing A Savant's Vendetta Other peasants joined my friendly gravedigger, and one of them—the giant of his village—told me of his own escape from death. The Soul of the War When he died, those gravediggers dug his grave deep enough to put another man on top of him. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 5 The gravedigger consented; the landlord quickly arranged a niche with flowers in the drinking-room, and then hastened to inform the whole neighbourhood what a treasure he had got. A Woman's Journey Round the World By undersexton was understood at that time gravedigger and bearer of the dead. A Journal of the Plague Year, written by a citizen who continued all the while in London Your very gravedigger has forgotten his avocation in his electorship, and would quibble on the Franchise over Ophelia’s grave, instead of more appropriately discussing the duration of bodies under ground. Lay Morals Dig as hard as he could my friendly gravedigger had been unable to cover up all those brothers-in-arms who lay out in the wind and the rain. The Soul of the War He wouldn't let the gravedigger so much as touch it. The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann Volume II Here, in close proximity to heaps of garden rubbish, broken bottles and other refuse, rest the suicides of Monte Carlo, buried by the parish gravedigger, without funeral and without any kind of religious ceremony. In the Heart of the Vosges And Other Sketches by a "Devious Traveller" Towards this church I made my way, under the dispiriting drip, drip of the rain, and accompanied by a feeble old man, who is sexton, clerk, gravedigger, and anything or everything of an official nature. Birds of Prey Having arrived there they placed their burden on the ground at the door of the so-called Kassengewölbe, where the gravedigger and his assistants took it up. Shakespeare's Bones My gravedigger plucked my sleeve and showed me where he had buried a French cuirassier who had been shot as he kept a lonely guard at the edge of a wood. The Soul of the War Thus the poor gravedigger buried all six corpses under the impression that he was working with the same one over and over again. Filipino Popular Tales Until now, no sense could be made of the first verse which the gravedigger sings. Shakspere and Montaigne Well, forty; and if I sign the register in my quality of head gravedigger, you can go and get your money at once. Jack Harkaway and His Son's Escape from the Brigand's of Greece As the gravediggers raised the coffin, the clouds suddenly parted, and the moon shed her light on all that was earthly of Schiller. Shakespeare's Bones Who builds the most durable dwellings? asks the laborer in "Hamlet;" and the answer is, The gravedigger. Autobiographical Sketches "Hullo, old gravedigger," said the other, "don't get too fresh." Clerambault The Story of an Independent Spirit During the War Had the gravediggers picked a spot fifty yards farther on for digging their trench, those two dead Frenchmen would have rested in the soil of their own country. Paths of Glory Impressions of War Written at and Near the Front In the church to which Joseph Livesey belonged the ringers and singers were hard drinkers, the gravedigger was a drunkard, and the parish clerk was often intoxicated! Beneath the Banner This being done, the gravedigger Bielke remarked that the coffins no longer lay in the order in which they had originally been placed, but had been displaced at recent burials. Shakespeare's Bones The gravedigger lost his place; and Suky's lover, young Oakley, was pressed for a soldier. The Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves Those gravediggers, Doubt, Distrust,They will lower him to the dust. Poems of Power The rich soil, in which the gravediggers could no longer delve without turning up some human remains, was possessed of wondrous fertility. The Fortune of the Rougons The friends and admirers took a last look, ladies in deep mourning threw garlands and flowers upon the coffin, and then the gravedigger resumed his work...The ceremony was performed in silence. Frederick Chopin, as a Man and Musician — Complete The skull found among these remains, Spice, the gravedigger, gave me as that of Ben Jonson, and I took it at once into the Dean’s study. Shakespeare's Bones The friends and admirers took a last look, ladies in deep mourning threw garlands and flowers upon the coffin, and then the gravedigger resumed his work…The ceremony was performed in silence. Frederick Chopin, as a Man and Musician — Volume 2 Corny Kelleher opened the sidedoors and the gravediggers came in, hoisted the coffin again, carried it out and shoved it on their cart. Ulysses He had wrested it with difficulty from the hands of the half-crippled gravedigger, at eighty still excitable by the mere touch of metal. Miscellaneous Studies; a series of essays He is no anatomical dissector, cutting his subject open, carving its flesh with the scalpel of his mandibles; he is literally a gravedigger, a sexton. The Wonders of Instinct Chapters in the Psychology of Insects Once at a window the light of a lamp appears; it is the lantern of gravediggers. Egypt (La Mort de Philae) Those gravediggers, Doubt, Distrust, They will lower him to the dust. Maurine and Other Poems The gravediggers bore the coffin and set its nose on the brink, looping the bands round it. Ulysses So his followers took him up and carrying him to the Police-officer, fetched gravediggers, who dug him a grave. The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 11 [Supplement] In the evening, when the gravedigger came to lock the gates, he had to take the young man by the shoulder and shake him to his senses. The Great Hunger "And each of us'll back his own man," muttered in an aside the gravedigger with the broken head. To Have and to Hold What is most characteristic in his manner of talking is the continually jesting tone, a sort of mixture of philosophy and drollery as in Shakespeare's gravediggers. The Wife, and other stories And it was estimated that the parish of Stepney alone lost one hundred and sixteen gravediggers and sextons within that year. Royalty Restored "Are you satisfied, Signor?" asked the gravedigger, with an air of triumph, turning to Adrian. Rienzi, Last of the Roman Tribunes A third man came up—he seemed to be the gravedigger—and he heard the three discussing how long they might have to wait for the parson. The Great Hunger "Let him try to convince Paradise; he's got no reputation as a swordsman!" cried out the gravedigger with the broken head. To Have and to Hold A grave was supposed to be six feet deep, and local gravediggers had been conscientious. Joe Wilson and His Mates They were led by the Spaniard and the gravedigger. To Have and to Hold I feared you were sped, and that another had cheated me of my office," said the gravedigger, "seeing that you returned not to the old Prince's palace. Rienzi, Last of the Roman Tribunes "Don't shoot!" roared the gravedigger to the man who had fired the shot. To Have and to Hold The men behind them differed no whit from the two gravediggers, being as scoundrelly of face, as great of strength, and as curiously attired. To Have and to Hold The old gravediggers had not been gold-diggers—besides, the graves, being six feet, would, none of them, have touched the alluvial bottom. Joe Wilson and His Mates The laugh of the gravedigger followed his steps. Rienzi, Last of the Roman Tribunes And methought I saw Irene, but could not speak to her, and while I attempted to grasp her, her face changed, her form dilated, and I was in the clutch of the foul gravedigger. Rienzi, Last of the Roman Tribunes "Leave him to us, young lady: we have had our eye upon him," said one of the gravediggers. Rienzi, Last of the Roman Tribunes "Here they are at last," growled the gravedigger with the broken head and velvet breeches. To Have and to Hold Fear not, good aunt," said the gravedigger; "this is the young Lord I spoke to thee of. Rienzi, Last of the Roman Tribunes |
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