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After local prejudice and the family's own emotional frailty result in unspeakable tragedy, the gravedigger's daughter, Rebecca, begins her astonishing pilgrimage into America, an odyssey of erotic risk and imaginative daring, ingenious self-invention, and, in the end, a bittersweetbut very "American" triumph.
The Gravedigger's Daughter by Joyce Carol Oates: Book summary 2010
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And knowing as well as the backs of his dirt-engrained hands that he had witnessed things so terrible, he ran stumbling, crying back to his gravedigger's shack, opened up the cemetery's worn, leather-bound log book, and wrote down word for word the little girl's question.
All the gaping mouths without a voice Michael Parker 2011
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What could be more satisfying than viewing the famous "Alas, poor Yorick" gravedigger's scene in such a setting?
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It wasn't so bad when they marched past, single-file, during the gravedigger's scene.
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In a famous passage in the Manifesto often referred to as the "gravedigger's thesis," Marx contends that the forces within capitalism itself would push individuals to seek profits in such a way that it would eventually lead to more severe economic booms and busts, the increased consolidation of industry and business, and the eventual destruction of the very foundations of capitalism itself.
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Franco lights up and is seized by a gravedigger's cough.
the mission song Le Carre, John, 1931- 2006
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"Or the snail dropped from the gravedigger's clothing or shovel."
Break No Bones Reichs, Kathy 2006
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Franco lights up and is seized by a gravedigger's cough.
The mission song Le Carre, John, 1931- 2006
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MATLALA VILLAGE, South Africa - Residents of a village in northern South Africa burned down a gravedigger's house and two vehicles to protest his idea of ready-made graves, police said
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"I paws for an answer," he said in a gravedigger's kind o 'a voice.
My Man Sandy J. B. Salmond
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