undertaker

• Most of them go away leaving the patient guessing whether the next visit will be from them or the undertaker--and rather hoping for the latter. —  The Promise A Tale of the Great Northwest
• Whether he sent Jakie to the hospital or to the undertaker was a question he did not attempt to answer; one thing was certain, however, that he must send him to one of those places as soon as might be That night, just before the train arrived, he sent another telegram to Johnny Scott at rush rates. —  The Happy Family
• That the undertaker at the same time bears the risks attendant upon production has to be taken into account when we consider the individual undertaker, but not when we consider the institution as such, for we cannot speak of the risk of the body of undertakers as a whole, I called the undertaker, not a man, but a something, because in truth it need not be a man with flesh and blood. —  Freeland A Social Anticipation
• Let us not be misled by the fact that frequently--we will say, as a rule--the undertaker is at the same time the actual manager of the work of production; when he is, he unites two economic functions in one person, that of the--mental or physical--labour and that of the undertakership. —  Freeland A Social Anticipation
• I have no time to write more at present, as the undertaker is waiting to see me about the last arrangements for the interment, which takes place at the English cemetery here. —  Stella Fregelius

Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms

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