Upon the person in charge also rests the duty of seeing that the undertaker does not take advantage of his authority to the extent of making the funeral unduly lavish.
It is not enough to leave everything in the hands of the undertakerand his assistants.
So that the body was left with the undertaker and his men, after they knew that it was not to be opened again?
For a liberal fee the undertaker agreed to dispose of the body.
It seems that the coffin was closed at five on the afternoon before the funeral, and the undertaker was told, in the presence of this fellow Randal, that it would not be opened again.
Then he tells the sorrowing friends that such and such an undertaker is the proper party to hide away the result of his failure; failure to cure, of course.
Yet some one must have gotten those screws out, for, if your identification was correct, your brother's body was taken out of that casket after the undertaker had put in those screws, which he said could not be removed without his permission.
I heard the undertaker call one 'Jack,' but I do not know which one.
It was known of course to the two brothers, and also to the undertaker and two of his assistants who were present.
The undertakerhimself closed the casket, I presume?
Yet his was the authority which had engaged the undertaker and directed the funeral.
Had he chosen to avoid the cremation without permitting the widow to know that his will accomplished her wish, how easy for him to engage the undertaker to carry out his purpose, oddly planned as it was!
All I can say is that the one that went away with the undertaker was a youngish fellow without any mustache.
You know when the undertakerand his men came and went, and how often, I presume?
How readily might the poor undertaker have been bribed by this wealthy man to take the risk!
The undertaker and one of his men left together just as dinner was put on table.
Why, no one had access to the coffin except the undertaker and his two men!
Because, when I let out the undertaker and his man, their wagon was at the door, but they walked off and left it.
It seemed to him that both the bank messenger and the undertaker were cutting it fine.
The coach came in handy the other night because we had an order from a London undertaker to bring a corpse as far as here--to Lydmouth.
By far the greater part of the material product is sold by the undertaker or business man, and the price is then divided between himself and the other agents of production.
Profits in the Joint-Stock Company Up to this point we have been considering the independent business man, the undertaker who manages his enterprise either alone or as a member of a partnership.
Strictly speaking, there is no undertaker or business man in a corporation.
They engaged the undertaker to go with us to attend to the burying of our dead.
After that interment, I was further detained by the death of a nephew, and the same undertaker remained to conduct this second ceremony.
Some time after the analytical report was made to the coroner, it was learned that an embalming fluid, highly arsenical in character, had been used upon the body by the undertakerat the time of preparation for burial.
Harvey Andrews has had an apoplectic stroke, and I want you to bring the undertaker out here right away.
There was a bunch of violets on the hearse, and the undertakermentioned the incident to avoid mistake.
A man is liable to live along there without noticing any fugiting of tempus until some day the undertaker calls in for him just when he's beginning to think about cutting out the gang and saving up a little to invest in real estate.
They can be wrought advantageously by nobody but the landlord, who being himself the undertaker of the work, gets the ordinary profit of the capital which he employs in it.
They afford some profit to the undertaker of the work, but no rent to the landlord.
Both the proprietor and the undertaker of the work find, the one that he can get a greater rent, the other, that he can get a greater profit, by somewhat underselling all their neighbours.
Within fifteen minutes, Flush's final earthly home had been excavated, and an amateur undertaker was making his coffin.
Men wondered what Berryn had done to Buffle, and odds of ten to one that some undertaker would soon have reason to bless Buffle were freely offered, but seldom taken.
On one block in Brooklyn live a doctor, an undertaker and a clergyman.
The fact is that they never made any stir while living, nor will they in dying, save as they rob the undertaker of his fees, they not leaving enough to pay their dismission expenses.
When I think of the scenes amid which an undertaker moves, I feel more like tears than hilarity.
To cry pork; to give intelligence to the undertaker of a funeral; metaphor borrowed from the raven, whose note sounds like the word pork.
When the undertaker called he was sent away a genuinely sorrowful man; and the young lawyer, who was 'not dead yet,' lived to old age and good purpose.
Dearth therefore plays no part in the schism, if the true dung-worker has actually turned himself into an undertaker, or if the undertaker has turned himself into a true dung-worker.
But the dwarf undertaker does not on that account scorn stercoraceous fare: he feasts upon it like the other Onthophagi.
This undertaker is endowed, they say, with intellectual faculties approaching to reason, such as are not possessed by the most gifted of the Bees and Wasps, the collectors of honey or game.
I find the ineptness of the undertaker in all the Beetles reared under the wire cover, on the bed of sand into which the rim of the dome sinks a little way.
The Undertaker does not question but in a short time to have formed a Body of Regular Snuff-Boxes ready to meet and make head against [all] the Regiment of Fans which have been lately Disciplined, and are now in Motion.
The following Epistle I find is from the Undertakerof the Masquerade.
Tyrrel, who was standing outside, acted the part of an undertaker in this truly black job, and buried the princes at the foot of the staircase.
I will go over to 'Friedenheim' after the undertaker has been here and ask him.
There being no undertaker in North Valley, he had arranged for a woman friend to take the body down to Pedro, so that he might be free for the interview with Cartwright.
Let her come with Mrs. Swajka or some other woman who spoke English, and go to the desk and ask for Mary Burke, explaining that Mary had borrowed money from her, and that she had to have it to pay the undertaker for the burial of her man.
The village undertakerwas of naturally sober aspect and reflective disposition.
And a wolf and a buzzard are better than an undertaker and some worms.
An undertaker from Hull told me flatly, little knowing who I was and where I came from, that he was the undertaker concerned in the episode.
Of course everybody in the Five Towns knows who the undertaker was, and if anybody in the Five Towns should ever chance to come across this book, I offer him my excuses for having brought coals to Newcastle.
The undertaker is now dead--it is a disturbing truth that even undertakers die sometimes--and since his widow has given me permission to mention his name, I shall mention his name.
Nobody shall go near her,' said the man, starting fiercely up, as the undertaker approached the recess.
Mr. Bumble grasped the undertaker by the arm, and led him into the building.
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.
The undertaker at once saw enough of what the room contained, to know it was the apartment to which he had been directed.
As the wretched creature mumbled and chuckled in her hideous merriment, the undertakerturned to go away.
Yes, sir," replied the butler; "the sea defrauds many an honest undertaker of his profits.
Every undertaker refused to take him, because they could not match him.
Hereupon, the undertaker was anxious to set forth; but the landlady, who was arrayed in shining black silk, thought it a shame that the poor man should be buried with such small attendance.
Every one seemed greatly to admire the grave; the undertaker praised it, and also the dryness of its site, which he took credit to himself for having chosen.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "undertaker" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
