grave-diggers

Reminds me of the Marx quote: “What the bourgeoisie, therefore, produces, above all, is its own grave-diggers.”

Matthew Yglesias » Obama’s Permanent Revolution 2009

The nearest of the grave-diggers had straightened his back to get a moment's relief and turned a sympathetic face.

A River So Long 2010

For the betterment of all, they shouldered the burden of being the huntsmen and butchers, the judges and jailers, the hangmen and executioners, the grave-diggers and cere-clothiers.

The Codex Continual » “Nine are the Candles”-An Excerpt 2008

It is true, nevertheless, that grave-diggers do die themselves.

Les Miserables 2008

The grave-diggers being thus bound to service in the evening in summer and at night in winter, in this cemetery, they were subjected to a special discipline.

Les Miserables 2008

The trench graves were still bare soil; they had been the last graves to be covered, when the plague was at its height and we grave-diggers could no longer keep up with the steady influx of bodies.

Renegade's Magic Hobb, Robin 2008

In a cemetery: Due to the grave-diggers' strike, all grave digging for the duration will be done by a skeleton crew.

Travis Tea, Sharla Tann, and PublishAmerica kradical 2007

They dig her grave on the stage; the grave-diggers jest in a way worthy of them, with skulls in their hands; Hamlet answers their odious grossnesses by extravagances no less disgusting.

Voltaire 2007

My acquaintance with grave-diggers, considering its length, was unremarkable.

Memories and Portraits 2005

And even while I still continued to be a haunter of the graveyard, I began insensibly to turn my attention to the grave-diggers, and was weaned out of myself to observe the conduct of visitors.

Memories and Portraits 2005