Sentence examples for a resurrectionist from inspiring English sources

I never took you for a Resurrectionist.

Quentin is a Resurrectionist, a money hoarder.

He is nearly arrested as a "resurrectionist" (a body-snatcher) when his landlady discovers in his closet a dead child, which he is about to dissect.

Joshua Naples, who wrote The Diary of a Resurrectionist, a list of his activities from 1811 1812, was one such individual.

With her magpie's eye for the telling detail, Mantel is an adept resurrectionist.

Some were taken from private homes; in 1831 The Times reported that "a party of resurrectionists" burst into a house in Bow Lane and took the body of an elderly woman, who was being "'waked' by her friends and neighbours".

A violent confrontation took place in a Dublin churchyard in 1828, when a party of mourners confronted a group of resurrectionists.

(My favorite song inspired by a work of nonfiction is the Pet Shop Boys' "The Resurrectionist," from Sarah Wise's book about 19th century body snatchers The Italian Boy. It has the irresistible lyric: We don't bring them back to life/But we do bring them back/From the dead).

O'Connell's previous novels were laced with lunatic humor, but his latest, THE RESURRECTIONIST (Algonquin, $24.95), is as dark as the bottom of a well.

Rot is always a problem for the living dead, which is why resurrectionists borrow a good deal from methods used in preserving food.

The MINT THEATER COMPANY, resurrectionist extraordinaire of forgotten plays, is presenting Teresa Deevy's "Temporal Powers," a 1923 drama about an Irish couple who stumble across a bag of stolen money when they spend the night in an old ruin.