undertaker's establishment
Example Sentences
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Oliver’s transit from the workhouse to an undertaker’s establishment to Fagin’s hide-out, spread across eight chapters in the Dickens, takes what seems like a blink of an eye here.
From New York Times • May 4, 2023
I ran about that summer, with a gang of fellow adolescents; our headquarters, strange to say, being the front room and outside steps of an undertaker's establishment.
From Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative by Kemp, Harry
The funeral took place in an undertaker's establishment and the body was placed in a receiving vault, until Blair's people could be heard from.
From The Come Back by Wells, Carolyn
As for golf—that is a prelude to senility, or the antechamber to an undertaker's establishment.
From Unicorns by Huneker, James
Wanted a man to make himself generally useful at an undertaker's establishment.
From Duty, and other Irish Comedies by O'Brien, Seumas
