Undertakers

There are people called undertakers who are going to come and take Nana with them in a special car. ❋ Zoe FitzGerald Carter (2010)

Lowland gentlemen, called undertakers, chiefly natives of the shire of ❋ Unknown (2008)

An alternative to initiative is undertaking, but that may have fallen by the wayside as the managers of funerals became known as undertakers. ❋ William Safire (2004)

That monarch granted the property of the Island of Lewis, as if it had been an unknown and savage country, to a number of Lowland gentlemen, called undertakers, chiefly natives of the shire of Fife, that they might colonise and settle there. ❋ Unknown (1871)

That monarch granted the property of the Island of Lewis, as if it had been an unknown and savage country, to a number of Lowland gentlemen, called undertakers, chiefly natives of the shire of Fife, that they might colonize and settle there. ❋ Walter Scott (1801)

As a teacher, I always said us and the undertakers are the only ones recession-proof. ❋ [email protected] (2010)

At the time, those in the business were called undertakers and the social norm was to have the funeral in the parlor of a family's home or a church. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Jones agrees but notes, basically, that things change and organizations need to adapt to change just as wagon wheel makers did with the advent of the automobile or, humorously, the notion undertakers took a hit because of the invention of penicillin. ❋ Unknown (2008)

He had also been one of the eight "undertakers" who, in 1627, assumed the debts and financial support of the Plymouth colony. ❋ Annie Russell Marble (N/A)

He had learnt from the wire-pullers of the day — or "undertakers" as they were then called — that he could depend upon a majority being returned which would be willing to grant supplies in return for certain concessions. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

She wore black cotton gloves such as undertakers supply for the pallbearers, and every finger was out. ❋ Nellie L. McClung (1912)

Exactly in front of the lamp, on a couple of trestles such as undertakers use, lay an elm coffin, its head towards the mantelpiece. ❋ Arnold Bennett (1899)

London companies, and syndicates of "undertakers"; but by the nature of things, the extent of territory, its distance, and the absence of a white subject race, no agrarian harm resulted in America, and a healthy system of tenure, almost exclusively freehold, was naturally evolved. ❋ Erskine Childers (1896)

As long ago as 1589, one of the English 'undertakers' who obtained some of the confiscated Desmond lands in Munster wrote of the 'better sorte' of Irish: 'Although they did never see you before, they will make you the best cheare their country yieldeth for two or three days, and take not anything therefor .... ❋ Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin (1889)

Raleigh calls him, treated his Devonshire farmers with less consideration than the Irish kerns, and although it is certain that of all the 'undertakers' Raleigh was the one who, after his lights, tried to do the best for his land, his experience as an Irish colonist was on the whole dispiriting. ❋ Edmund Gosse (1888)

"I gave [my GF] a [sexy] The Undertaker last night." "Is she [okay]?" ❋ Ahmahm (2017)

[The Undertaker] will [bury] you [alive]... ❋ Kain (2004)

[Undertaker] is [the phenom] ❋ Kent (2003)

Wrestling Fan #1: "Did you see when The Undertaker was set on fire during WWE [Elimination Chamber]?" Imbecile/Wrestling Fan #2: "ya he ran lik a [pusy] gawd hao out of character lols" Wrestling Fan #1: "Yes, it was out of character. I'd love for you to walk slowly down the ramp while being set on fire, idiot." Imbecile/Wrestling Fan #2: "[herpaderp]" ❋ M-m-m-myyyyy Sharona (2010)

[Rest]... In... [Peace].... ❋ Parsa (2005)

When you [die] [the undertaker] comes and [gets] you. ❋ Annoymous (2003)

[The Undertaker] [nalis] Kane with a thunderous [Tombstone Piledriver] ❋ Winston JOrdan (2004)

[The Undertaker] is 6'10" and [around] 330lbs. ❋ Gumba Gumba (2004)

[Climbing] that [mountain] was a very difficult [undertaking]. ❋ BlackPohatu (2016)

EG, in the UK where one drives on [the left] and overtakes on the right, [passing] on the left is [undertaking]. ❋ Oracle (2005)