Undertaker

Examples

• He trembled pitifully as the undertaker's man was arranging his crape draperies around him. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Ah, there's promptness,' said the undertaker. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• Bayton,' said the undertaker, looking from the scrap of paper to Mr. Bumble. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• So they are,' said the undertaker. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• He would have no RAISON D'ETRE if there were no lugubrious miseries in the world, as an undertaker would have no meaning if there were no funerals. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• The merchant is commonly a bold, a country gentleman a timid undertaker. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• I say you'll make your fortune, Mr. Sowerberry,' repeated Mr. Bumble, tapping the undertaker on the shoulder, in a friendly manner, with his cane. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• No more they have,' acquiesced the undertaker. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• Mr. Bumble grasped the undertaker by the arm, and led him into the building. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• It reminded me too painfully of that San Francisco undertaker who used to go to sick-beds with his watch in his hand and time the corpse. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The whole capital of the undertaker of every work is necessarily divided between his fixed and his circulating capital. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• So it is,' acquiesced the undertaker. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• They afford some profit to the undertaker of the work, but no rent to the landlord. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The undertaker offered no reply to this raving; but producing a tape from his pocket, knelt down for a moment by the side of the body. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• He might have been a parson, or an undertaker--or anything else you like, except what he really was. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Traders and other undertakers may, no doubt with great propriety, carry on a very considerable part of their projects with borrowed money. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Neither are the profits of the undertakers of silver mines commonly very great in Peru. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Wot 'ud become of the undertakers vithout it, Sammy? Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Undertakers let the furniture of funerals by the day and by the week. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• But such traders and undertakers would surely be most inconvenient debtors to such a bank. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Those traders and other undertakers, having got so much assistance from banks and bankers, wished to get still more. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Even the making of it is so, as it may be contracted for with undertakers, at so much a mile, and so much a lock. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Mr. Cruncher did not assist at the closing sports, but had remained behind in the churchyard, to confer and condole with the undertakers. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Others are used by newsboys, egg farmers, housewives, undertakers, dentists, judges in automobile races, and by persons in a thousand different lines of business. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.

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