gravedigger

• The gravedigger, spouting filth with his usual alacrity, lit a new cigarette from the dying embers of his old one, and flicked the defunct butt squarely into Clem's face. —  F ;SF - vol 105 issue 01 - July 2003
• About the only profound talent in our troupe not fully used in Hamlet was Heminges, who carried Othello -with his powerful Iago, cast as the gravedigger. —  Dozois, Gardner ; Strahan, Jonathan - SSC - The New Space Opera (v1.0)
• If language is a game—and when is it not with Shakespeare?—then the gravedigger was the only player who should have been allowed on the court with the fiendishly witty Hamlet. —  Dozois, Gardner ; Strahan, Jonathan - SSC - The New Space Opera (v1.0)
• 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. —  The Project Gutenberg eBook of Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great: Great Musicians, by Elbert Hubbard
• "I'VE never been made redundant working as a gravedigger," Ian McGregor points out.

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