grave digger

A “komitetchik par excellence,” a man of “outstanding mediocrity,” and “the grave digger of the revolution.”

Was it really, as I suspected, ordered on a whim by some yahoo who was deeply affected by a childhood encounter with Grave Digger?

A grave-digger was carrying one of these deceased angels to the churchyard, when he stept into a tavern to take a dram.

"That's from Psalms," he said, one day, to an adjacent grave-digger.

The grave-digger said he had been christened and married by Mr. Hawker: one of the best passons, he added, us ever had.

In clearing away the old wood the grave-digger found an hour-glass close to the left side of the skull, with sand still in it.

The grave-digger finished his task cheerfully, shouldered his tools, and left the kirkyard.