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Meanings of gravedigger in English

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Usage of gravedigger in English
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The aged gravedigger, bent nearly double, met them where the roads parted.
Bog-Myrtle and Peat / Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from th...
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Diggory the gravedigger never talks much, but I like to watch him.
Brothers of Pity and Other Tales of Beasts and Men
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A gravedigger dug down to a coffin and prised open her lid.
The Guardian
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Barefoot woke up the gravedigger's wife, and sent her to Black Marianne.
The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, V...
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They searched to find a gravedigger on the Isle of the Dead.
Winter’s Tale
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Our only and original gravedigger, manager in general of village affairs.
Memories and Anecdotes
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By undersexton was understood at that time gravedigger and bearer of the dead.
A Journal of the Plague Year / Written by a Citizen Who Continue...
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Leaving the cemetery grounds, Waltemeyer finds himself walking with a gravedigger.
Homicide: a year on the killing streets
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There was no sign of the soil having been disturbed by the gravedigger.
Silence of the grave
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The gravedigger, alarmed at what Samuel asked him, at first refused his request.
The Wandering Jew — Volume 11
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The lady knew, and liked to gratify, the gravedigger's love of long-worded discourse.
The Daughters of Danaus
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Any gravedigger with a spade could manage a simple little job like that!
Shadow prowler
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He claimed he'd been a gravedigger when he was a teenager.
Career of Evil
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Another man was arrested today for questioning about the murder of a former gravedigger.
The Irish Times
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He was amazed when he thought of how fortunate Petronus's gravedigger army had been.
Antiphon
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He has a friend in Clun who is a gravedigger.
Jonathan strange and mr norrell
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