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

As he left the undertaker’s establishment the crowd gave a slight cheer, but Mr. Gubb walked hurriedly toward the jail.

From Philo Gubb, Correspondence-School Detective by Irvin, Rea

That evening she hurried home, and had tea with her mother; then, taking little Dick between them, they went to the undertaker's establishment to be present at the funeral of Miss Jennings.

From For Gold or Soul? The Story of a Great Department Store by Sheldon, Lurana W.

DANA, of the Sun, is about to open an undertaker's establishment for the arrangement of murderer's obsequies.

From Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 22, August 27, 1870 by Various

After the autopsy had been completed the friends of the deceased were permitted to take charge of the remains, and they were removed to an undertaker's establishment within a short distance of his former residence.

From The Crime of the Century or, The Assassination of Dr. Patrick Henry Cronin by Hunt, Henry M.