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Last week, Joe Irving, the undergardener at Clomley lodge, brought me, as a present, a large nosegay of dahlias and china-asters.

From Ellen Middleton—A Tale by Fullerton, Georgiana

A warm feeling for a fellow American caused me to call in my steward and bid him give Dinkman £100, a small fortune to an undergardener, and let him go.

From Greener Than You Think by Moore, Ward

There was in them something of the utter confiding helplessness I had noted in the eyes of an old setter at Chaynes-Wotten when I had been called upon to assist the undergardener in chloroforming him.

From Ruggles of Red Gap by Wilson, Harry Leon

Feeling much better afterwards, rang for Mrs H and told her merely to give K a leave of absence and discharge only the guilty undergardener.

From Greener Than You Think by Moore, Ward

That was before we were married, and he was an undergardener then.

From A Bicycle of Cathay by Lowell, Orson