| 单词 | white ash |
| 例句 | His red beard was now snow-white with a few pale orange hairs in it, like a once-proud fire become white ashes. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z Gray smoke floats to the sky and white ashes fall on us like powder. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He had a tuft of white hair just above his forehead, and as a boy, I would take white ash and rub it into my hair in imitation of him. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z And when I wiped a bit of white ash from his forehead, he brought my hand to his lips and kissed my fingertips. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z He braced himself on one crutch and leaned back and side-armed the other, heavy with its white ash bat, as hard as he could, aiming in between the two coyotes. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z The flare had burned out in the floor leaving a patch of white ash and there was a faint smell of burnt wood in the room. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z He caught hold of the handle and worked it to and fro, seeing white ashes and red embers falling into the bottom of the furnace. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Already the platform and the three bundles were only white ashes. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z In spring, the meadows burst into galaxies of yellow-mustard flowers, and robins and thrashers sing in stands of tulip trees and white ash. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z His thick lips nursed a big, black cigar that held white ashes an inch long. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z In the morning, when the Firedrake flapped back to its den, the valley looked like a basin of white ashes. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z Tayo poked a stick into the coals and watched them lose shape and collapse into white ash. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z As we near Rensselaerville, we sit down in the shade of a white ash and plan what to do next. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z He guided Joe to a lumber rack and pulled out samples of the different woods he used—soft, malleable sugar pine, hard yellow spruce, fragrant cedar, and clear white ash. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Still, the campers in Ashkelon, Israel, about 35 miles south of Tel Aviv along the Mediterranean coast, were mesmerized by the layer of white ash that adhered to a blackened base. Journeys: In Israel, Treasures for Those Willing to Dig 2011-03-25T18:55:00Z A wind came across the ocean, sweeping with it a pall of fine white ash. A Science-Fiction Classic Still Smolders 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z A more familiar species, the towering white ash, is a tree of drier, upland areas. How an uninvited pest doomed the ash tree 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z In the native green and white ash tree, the galloping pace of destruction by the emerald ash borer seems to be leading to nothing short of extinction. Perspective | ‘This is going to be a bad one’: A new pest is causing quarantines in Va. and Pa. 2019-06-25T04:00:00Z Thick, dark plumes would begin drifting toward him and then white ashes would float down from above, blanketing the ground like a Wisconsin snowfall. War’s toxic legacy: Iraq, the burn pits & the tragedy the military needs to be held accountable for 2016-02-21T05:00:00Z The other woman later emerged covered in white ash, but the individual in the basement had not yet exited, he said. 4 people dead and 1 missing after explosion destroys 3 structures in western Pennsylvania 2023-08-13T04:00:00Z Black charcoal covered with white ash remained red hot after the flames died down. Cuba tames its largest fire, fuel depot locals begin to return 2022-08-10T04:00:00Z The once-scenic two-lane roads flanked by green were now topped in white ash and charred trees. Discovering they lost everything in Oak fire: 'I cried behind a tree for 10 minutes' 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z The highly radioactive debris condensed and began raining down as white ash over 2,800 square miles of the Pacific Ocean a few hours later. Review | Experimenting with hydrogen bombs, the U.S. blew lives apart 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z As I was driving, I saw a fire truck with blown-out windows, no longer red but covered in white ash and debris, which had been towed back to the firehouse, Engine 226. The Photographs of 9/11 2021-09-11T04:00:00Z First, you let the coals die down until there’s no active flame, but they’re glowing and covered in white ash. How to ember-grill sweet potatoes for smoky, caramelized flavor 2021-07-04T04:00:00Z Other clips posted on social media showed homes and streets blanketed in grayish white ash. Caribbean Volcano Erupts, Spewing Ash and Smoke for Miles 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z “I want my blood and sweat money,” he said, his body covered with white ash. Why a takeout deliveryman in China set himself on fire 2021-02-08T05:00:00Z The Wabash River runs along the campus’s western side, carving a ravine between stands of winter-bare black walnut and white ash. Opinion | The Man I Saw Them Kill 2020-12-17T05:00:00Z I stopped to eat a picnic dinner by Onondaga Lake, in the shade of a large white ash tree. Can Genetic Engineering Bring Back the American Chestnut? 2020-04-30T04:00:00Z They laid out square plots and subdivided them into small plantations of saplings of different native trees: tulip poplar, white ash, white pine, white oak — a kooky checkerboard forest. Remaking Appalachia green 2020-02-17T05:00:00Z They laid out square-shaped plots and subdivided them into small plantations of saplings of different native trees: tulip poplar, white ash, white pine, white oak — a kooky checkerboard forest. Kentucky was devastated for decades by mountaintop removal. Now scientists have figured out a way to undo the damage — one tree at a time. 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z In summer, neighborhoods flutter with honey locust, silver linden, sugar maple, red oak, white ash and pignut hickory, all ready to ignite in fall with incendiary color. Bernie Sanders shaped this small city, and it gave him a moonshot to the national stage 2020-01-26T05:00:00Z Hills were charred black, and in some places, white ash was all that remained. LeBron James, Arnold Schwarzenegger flee California wildfires 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z The nearby hills were bare and black and flecks of white ash were still raining down. For Porter Ranch, Saddleridge fire is the latest disaster on a growing list 2019-10-12T04:00:00Z Their big tires lie on blackened ground, reduced to circles of white ash, which crumbles when touched. California fire: If you stay, you're dead. How a Paradise nursing home evacuated 2018-11-17T05:00:00Z Alongside an active coal mine site called Star Fire, just east of Hazard, experimental square-shaped plots of native species of trees include tulip poplar, white ash, white pine and white oak. Kentucky was devastated for decades by mountaintop removal. Now scientists have figured out a way to undo the damage — one tree at a time. 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z On Monday, as white ash swirled around the neighborhood, a recovery team pulled a body from the rubble. In California’s Fires, Fear for the Missing: ‘I Loved Her. And I Don’t Know if I’ll Ever See Her Again.’ 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z As he talked, flakes of white ash fell on his uniform as strong winds continued to sweep across the nearby burning ridges. Battling California's most destructive fire, officials brace for more powerful winds over weekend - Los Angeles Times 2018-11-10T05:00:00Z Now the vast majority of bats are made from maple and white ash, mostly imported. A Baseball Bat Dies, and Chopsticks Are Born 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z Several thousand years ago the volcano under Santorini in Greece—known as Thera—erupted in a tremendous explosion, dusting the nearby Mediterranean civilizations of Crete and Egypt in a layer of white ash. Ancient volcanic eruptions, and peer pressure—from robots 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z A thin vortex of pale white ash, picked up by a hot morning wind, rose from the black and gray landscape a wildfire left behind. As wildfires rage, Trump administration plans to slash fire science funding 2018-08-05T04:00:00Z Bo remembered it spitting a rain of sizzling blue bombs down on the city, burning the park behind their house to white ash, toppling the skyscrapers downtown. A transgender girl rises up against alien invaders in Rich Larson’s novel Annex 2018-07-08T04:00:00Z Cars in Parking Lot 8 were covered by a thin layer of white ash in the early afternoon. Montana-UCLA basketball game canceled due to wildfire 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z Heavy smoke choked the air and bits of white ash from the Atlas Peak fire drifted earthward Monday morning as he fretted over the fate of the house his parents bought three decades ago. Raging wildfires bring death and destruction to California's Wine Country 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z One of the affected species, the once-plentiful white ash is one of the most valuable timber trees in North America, used for making furniture, baseball bats and hockey sticks. Red list: ash trees and antelopes on the brink of extinction 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z The Eagle Creek fire burned through their beloved backyard wilderness, blowing smoke into downtown Portland and raining a powder of white ash across the region. A state's shared grief as fire chews through Oregon's beloved Columbia River Gorge 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z Marienville planning team leader Kevin Treese said damage is occurring to black cherry, white ash, oak and beech trees in the state’s only national forest due to multiple pests, some native and some invasive species. Pests causing more damage than expected to Allegheny forest 2017-06-18T04:00:00Z They were later made from rock elm and white ash. Sticks shatter for NHL players sometimes at the worst times 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z A small area of Pennsylvania and New York has supplied white ash for the Louisville Slugger, the official bat of Major League Baseball. Ash trees disappear across Pennsylvania 2017-01-18T05:00:00Z A pile of red oak, basswood, white ash, hard maple and other logs sat in a staging area near Route 56. Logging effort in Pennsylvania: A labor of love 2016-11-26T05:00:00Z The study further analyzed data for trees that turn red: red maple, sugar maple, black gum, white oak, red oak, black oak, black cherry and white ash. How a Changing Climate Is Shaping a Leaf Peeper’s Paradise 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z The interiors of the vintage cars feature Tasmanian mahogany, white ash and brass hardware. Seattle’s George Benson waterfront trolleys to roll in St. Louis 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z He braved the scene of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and walked two miles with head and shoulders caked in white ash. Rudy Giuliani out-Trumps Trump, but is it an aberration or just his real character? 2016-10-04T04:00:00Z In America, white ash plays a key role in the country’s national sport. Trees That Advanced Civilization Are Now Threatened 2016-09-11T04:00:00Z The caterpillar feeds on sugar maple and white ash, damaging trees that produce syrup by feasting on its young leaves. Officials concerned about impact of caterpillar outbreak 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z Only in white ash trees did the duration and full display of color decrease. How a Changing Climate Is Shaping a Leaf Peeper’s Paradise 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z There is the white ash bench handmade by Jessica Wickham, its contours shaped by the log it was built from, and Christopher Kurtz’s three-legged redwood writing desk that evokes flowing liquid. Dorsky Museum Highlights Works That Elevate the Mundane Into Art 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z Afterward, morticians rebuilt the body with sticks and animal hair, and covered it in white ash. Mummies Around the World—Dried, Smoked, or Thrown in a Bog 2016-01-18T05:00:00Z Igneous hand-selects and mills much of its wood, including hard maple and white ash. Is a Custom-Made Ski Right for You? 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z “My body just failed me,” he said, as he drove past the white ash of homes he had tried to save that night. In Vicious Fire Season, an Endurance Test for California Crews 2015-09-27T04:00:00Z Nelson gestured to a swath of concrete and white ash that used to be the main office. Harbin Hot Springs, N. Calif. ‘hippie’ haven, consumed by massive wildfire 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z The blast in Torrance slightly injured four contractors, heavily damaged equipment and rained a fine white ash on nearby homes and cars. ExxonMobil fined following probe into refinery explosion 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z A brown couch was covered in white ash as charred debris lay strewn around the property. Attack in West Bank kills Palestinian child, homes torched 2015-07-31T04:00:00Z A brown couch was covered in white ash as charred debris lay strewed around the property. Attack in West Bank Kills Palestinian Child 2015-07-31T04:00:00Z For more than a hundred years, bats were made of white ash, a hardwood that remained largely intact when it broke, thanks largely to its straight grain. Editorials from around New England 2015-06-13T04:00:00Z An upland forest is being created to include yellow birch, white pine and white ash. Planting begins to stop erosion along Ammonoosuc River 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z The blast slightly injured four contractors, heavily damaged equipment and rained a fine white ash on nearby homes and cars. State Senate holds hearing in Torrance on refinery explosion 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z Spitler said no harmful emissions were detected after the explosion, Torrance police advised residents that a nontoxic, white ash substance from the blast may pose inhalation risks “as all airborne particles do.” Exxon Mobil refinery explosion: Cause unclear, portion of plant shut down 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z On her forehead, streaked with the traditional white ash of the priesthood, was the round red bindi many Indian women wear after marriage. At Indian temple, widows from lowest caste are exalted as priests 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z The neat pile of smoldering orange coals is coated in white ash. Excerpt from 'Flesh and Blood' 2014-11-12T05:00:00Z Tanks, armoured personnel carriers and transport lorries have been reduced to oxidised carcasses and white ash. Tense Ceasefire in the Hopeless Towns of 'Happiness' and 'Victory' in Ukraine Especially seeing the results afterwards, seeing stuff burned to white ash when there’s no remnant of what was there before. This Is What It's Like to Fight in a Wild Fire Inferno 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z But Major League Baseball's spring soundtrack relies heavily on wood from white ash trees treasured for strength and flexibility. Baseball Bats Made from Ash May Fall Victim of Climate Change 2014-03-31T14:50:00Z There have been conflicting reports about the size of the White Army force, called that because of the white ash that fighters rub onto their skin. Rebel Forces Attack Key City in South Sudan 2013-12-31T10:37:25Z There have been conflicting reports about the advance of the White Army, called that because of the white ash that fighters rub onto their skin. Uganda Issues Warning Over Fighting in South Sudan 2013-12-30T18:49:59Z The group reportedly marching on the town are part of an ethnic Nuer militia known as the White Army because of the white ash they put on their skin to protect them from insects. S Sudan 'wildcard' army worries UN 2013-12-29T09:02:43Z The youths now marching on the town are part of an ethnic Nuer militia known as the White Army, because of the white ash they put on their skin to protect them from insects. S Sudan rebel youths in war march 2013-12-28T17:41:29Z "And the white ash trees in northern Pennsylvania are perfectly suited for those characteristics." Baseball Bats Made from Ash May Fall Victim of Climate Change 2014-03-31T14:50:00Z But the black pot that tenanted the vast gloomy recess of the fireplace, hung over dead, white ashes--cold relics of the cheer that had once reigned there. Sophia A Romance 2012-03-18T02:00:22.773Z The trunk was in some measure incinerated, and resembled a heap of wood covered with white ashes. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z The shelving and other furniture, and all wooden utensils used, should be of white ash, maple or white wood, in order to avoid all danger of communicating distasteful or deleterious flavors. Clayton's Quaker Cook-Book Being a Practical Treatise on the Culinary Art Adapted to the Tastes and Wants of all Classes 2012-02-11T03:03:43.593Z I crossed over to the empty fireplace heaped with the white ashes of the logs which had blazed there the night before. The Watchers A Novel 2012-01-29T03:00:08.560Z The interior accoutrements include white ash wood inlays, a Bose surround sound system, and several options for air purification including a “breeze mode” setting. 5 High-Tech Cars for Business 2012-01-25T19:24:34Z Below in the darkness— The slumber of mothers— The cradles at rest— The fire-seed sleeping Deep in white ashes! The Melody of Earth An Anthology of Garden and Nature Poems From Present-Day Poets 2011-12-31T03:00:17.930Z Fear, policy, remorse, superstition, even whatever poor spark of better feeling remained unquenched under the white ashes of a heart consumed by evil passions, made him shrink in disgust from this sudden execution. Oscar Wilde 2011-12-10T03:00:14.120Z The fire was a bed of white ashes and a rose-gold core in the centre. Maid of the Mist 2011-11-21T03:00:11.937Z The terrifying fan-like aureola suddenly grew dim, and the desert was grey and gloomy, with a gentle rain of thick white ash falling down. Psyche 2011-11-15T03:00:18.293Z In the forest the head is narrow, but in the open the dome of a white ash is as broad and symmetrical as that of a white oak. Trees Worth Knowing 2011-10-13T02:00:48.357Z THE white ash is found throughout the State, but grows to best advantage in the rich moist soils of bottom lands. Forest Trees of Illinois How to Know Them 2011-10-08T02:00:23.997Z They too lived, and loved, and strove, and suffered, and enjoyed: and now—all is gone, gone; the hot fire burned down to such a little handful of white ashes. The Expositor's Bible: Colossians and Philemon 2011-09-09T02:01:07.157Z The gale came whuffling down on the fire and scattered the white ashes in a cloud, and set the silken drapery of the walls rustling wildly. Maid of the Mist 2011-11-21T03:00:11.937Z When she stretched out the sceptre and directed the rays, she scorched monuments, palaces, and parks to a white ash, and, for her cruel jubilant procession, she cut down everything that came in her way. Psyche 2011-11-15T03:00:18.293Z These are all characters that distinguish the white ash from other species and enable one to name it at a glance. Trees Worth Knowing 2011-10-13T02:00:48.357Z The opposite leaves of the white ash are from 8 to 12 inches long and have from 5 to 9 plainly stalked, sharp-pointed leaflets, dark green and smooth above, pale green beneath. Forest Trees of Illinois How to Know Them 2011-10-08T02:00:23.997Z Some armed Indians still lay near the white ashes of the dead fires, but his men, the other Arab, and all the rest of the Somalis were gone. Harry Milvaine The Wanderings of a Wayward Boy 2011-09-08T02:00:23.340Z The supply of wood was unlimited and always, in the depths of the heap of white ashes, was a golden core of heat only waiting to be fed. Maid of the Mist 2011-11-21T03:00:11.937Z You do not look a day older—only as though you had been burnt in a fire, and there is nothing but the white ashes of you left. The Claw 2011-08-31T02:01:30.563Z In the South the white ash is undersized and the wood is of poor quality. Trees Worth Knowing 2011-10-13T02:00:48.357Z The wood is similar to that of the white ash, but is not quite so tough. Forest Trees of Illinois How to Know Them 2011-10-08T02:00:23.997Z To-night, however, he did not sleep, but sat and watched the glow of the embers slowly fade beneath a coat of white ash. Lives of the Fur Folk 2011-08-20T02:00:13.820Z In the morning the Limestone Burner coming to work found a handful of pure white ashes. The Confessions of a Poacher 2011-08-05T02:00:44.470Z In flavour they should be light and spicy, draw free, leaving a firm white ash. Nicotiana Or The Smoker's and Snuff-Taker's Companion 2011-07-29T02:00:29.353Z Tool handles and oars are made of white ash and it is superior as fuel. Trees Worth Knowing 2011-10-13T02:00:48.357Z The wood of the white ash is extremely valuable on account of its toughness and elasticity. Forest Trees of Illinois How to Know Them 2011-10-08T02:00:23.997Z Hour followed hour; the candles burned down; the fire wasted to white ashes; the wintry wind moaned without, carrying sleet on its wings. Faithful Margaret A Novel 2011-06-10T02:00:21.627Z Into what worlds had poor Frank been wandering as he stood watching the red lights dull into white ashes by the blue tiles of the hearth! Old Kensington 2011-05-29T02:00:09.797Z "Wouldn't it?" said Hendrie, removing his cigar and seriously contemplating the perfect white ash at its tip. The Way of the Strong 2011-04-07T02:00:21.387Z Not until May do the rusty yellow winter buds of the white ash swell and throw out on separate trees their staminate and pistillate flower clusters from the axils of last year's foliage. Trees Worth Knowing 2011-10-13T02:00:48.357Z This species differs from the white ash in having the leaves bright green or yellow-green on both sides. Forest Trees of Illinois How to Know Them 2011-10-08T02:00:23.997Z He watched the white ash trembling upon his cigar for a moment before he spoke. Mysterious Mr. Sabin 2011-03-24T02:00:10.087Z A, black ash; B, white ash; C, green ash. Wood and Forest 2011-03-01T03:00:42.647Z He lit it, and, holding the white shreds in the flame, watched them grow red, then pale to a grayish white ash, but the substance was unconsumed. Lost Farm Camp 2011-01-23T03:00:16.437Z The wood of black ash has the tough, heavy coarse-grained qualities of the white ash, but differs in being very durable and in being easily split into thin layers—each a year's growth. Trees Worth Knowing 2011-10-13T02:00:48.357Z If once he could see it burning into white ashes, or torn into a hundred pieces, he knew that there was nothing in the world strong enough to bar his progress. The Golden Web 2011-01-15T03:00:38.007Z White men usually make use of white ash, a very good material for the purpose. Woodcraft 2010-12-30T03:00:30.337Z Remarks: Often sold with and as the superior white ash. Wood and Forest 2011-03-01T03:00:42.647Z The suppressed rage in him burned to white ash. The Pioneers 2010-12-20T17:12:11.787Z Its wood ranks with the best white ash and exceeds it in one particular; it is the most durable ash wood when exposed alternately to wet and dry conditions. Trees Worth Knowing 2011-10-13T02:00:48.357Z “It was raining ash the whole afternoon, big pieces of black and white ash,” said Andrea Berg, a employee holed up her apartment in the city. Kyrgyz Rioting Spreads in Apparent Ethnic Violence 2010-06-13T12:34:00Z In America there are several species—such as Fraxinus americana, the white ash; F. pubescens, the red ash; and F. sambucifolia, the black ash. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" To quickly determine total alkali in soap a weighed portion of the soap may be ignited to a white ash and the ash titrated for alkalinity using methyl orange as an indicator. Soap-Making Manual A Practical Handbook on the Raw Materials, Their Manipulation, Analysis and Control in the Modern Soap Plant. The ashes were still hot, and he plunged into the soft stuff over his head, he was out and away, with a piercing squeal, almost instantly, trailing white ash behind him. Unexplored! The lumber is counted equal to white ash and is one of the most valuable of deciduous timber trees in the western coast states. Trees Worth Knowing 2011-10-13T02:00:48.357Z Several kinds of oaks, white ash, and several species of hickories, with shag-bark most characteristic, were most abundant. The Mammals of Washtenaw County, Michigan Occasional Papers of the Museum of Zoology, No. 123 All was white ash, and well packed down, for it had rained heavily a few nights before. The Book of Gud Two large craters formed at the summit of the mountain, discharging numerous incandescent projectiles with white ashes, and glittering with particles of mica, which frequently recurred. The Eruption of Vesuvius in 1872 The black ash grows in the swampy ground, The white ash in the dry; The thrush he holds to the woodland bound, The hawk to the open sky. Later Poems The white ash is one of the noblest trees in the American forest, the peer of the loftiest oak or walnut. Trees Worth Knowing 2011-10-13T02:00:48.357Z It was absurd, vexatious, incredible, impossible that so keen a flame should have died down into the white ash of philosophy ... as expressed in her latest poems. Shadows of Flames A Novel Stark noticed that her hand was unsteady, her face the colour of white ash. Black Amazon of Mars The police came and examined her belongings, but they found nothing treasonable, though a heap of white ashes in the fire-grate showed that papers must have been burnt. The Head Girl at the Gables And he kneeled down, and took from his breast pouch a leathern bottle, which was filled with white ashes. Saga of Halfred the Sigskald A Northern Tale of the Tenth Century Its brown wood is inferior to white ash. Trees Worth Knowing 2011-10-13T02:00:48.357Z Masses of the plumed white ash shook feathery tassels along the walls, making the air sweet with their fragrance. The Mountain Girl Next the Greeks made a great pile of dry wood, and laid Achilles on it, and set fire to it, till the flames had consumed his body except the white ashes. Tales of Troy and Greece She was sitting before the fire in the rough chair which was usually occupied by the old woman and her eyes were fixed on the flaring logs and the white ashes below them. The Portal of Dreams All the coals of his fire were covered with white ashes and the fire itself was dying away unheeded, when a bright youth with red blood in his cheeks walked lightly through the open doorway. The Story of Hiawatha Adapted from Longfellow About and through them floated clouds of fine white ashes, ghostly restless dust of unthinkable treasure. Ancestors A Novel On the 9th of September white ashes were seen on the summit, which at a distance appeared like snow. Etna A History of the Mountain and of its Eruptions An indication of the character of the ash of a coal is afforded by its colour, white ash coals being generally freer from sulphur than those containing iron pyrites, which yield a red ash. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 5 "Clervaux" to "Cockade" Our American white ash and elm rank well up with the oaks, so does beech, while the softer woods fall behind. Old Plymouth Trails James Harrington saw the furnace standing on the hearth with a handful of white ashes at the bottom. Mabel's Mistake They crouched low in the white ashes at the base of the mountain, and waited, scarcely breathing. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, August 1930 Saivites are instantly recognised by the mark of white ashes on their foreheads, and sometimes on the breast and arms, and often a necklet of berries is worn. Things as They Are Mission Work in Southern India Before the blow-pipe, this calculus blackens, emits a smoke having a peculiar odour, and is gradually consumed, leaving a minute quantity of white ash, which is generally alkaline. North American Medical and Surgical Journal, Vol. 2, No. 3, July, 1826 The butt is white ash, and the second joint and tip finely selected lancewood. Black Bass Where to catch them in quantity within an hour's ride from New York There was nothing but a heap of white ashes and half-burnt wood! The Book of Saints and Friendly Beasts The whole fabric of her own desires and plans and purposes seemed to crumple like the white ash in a dead fire, leaving her nothing. Tharon of Lost Valley All who come down have their foreheads smeared with white ashes. Things as They Are Mission Work in Southern India This was highly satisfactory, and one little puff would go up, sending out the white ashes, to be succeeded by another, as fast as the fat fist of the little mischief-maker could work. The Cabin on the Prairie Cedar and white ash, rock-cedar and sand plants and tamarisk red cedar and white cedar and black cedar from the inmost forest, fragrance upon fragrance and all of my sea-magic is for nought. Hymen The fire was burning very low, stifled in dust and white ashes. Phoebe, Junior Then place the dish in a muffle and heat at low redness until a white ash is obtained. All About Coffee The threatening flames having now died away, Sigurd pursued his journey over a broad tract of white ashes, directing his course to a great castle, with shield-hung walls. Myths of the Norsemen From the Eddas and Sagas In some respects white ash is the best of green woods for campers fuel. Scouting For Girls, Official Handbook of the Girl Scouts It is easy enough to make cedar and white ash fumes into palaces and to cover the sea-caves with ivory and onyx. Hymen A flare, and they were white ash trying to escape from a valley of burning rocks; then even that was free to rise. Somehow Good Light was already coming through the shutter chinks, the fire was but red embers and white ash. Tatterdemalion In the middle of the white ashes and glowing coals there was movement. David and the Phoenix The latter burns finely to a beautiful white ash that is characteristic; apple wood does the same. Scouting For Girls, Official Handbook of the Girl Scouts The fire had all burned out to white ashes, and every swirl of the wind made the ashes fly about. The Doers The hillside was black smoking stumps, fallen blackened trees, white ashes! Here and Now Story Book Two- to seven-year-olds The great white ash trees, too, presented similar furrowed bark, but of lighter gray tint. When Life Was Young At the Old Farm in Maine He turned towards the fireplace: a single coal glowed in the white ashes. Black Spirits and White A Book of Ghost Stories On a wager, I have built a bully fire from a green tree of white ash, one match, and no dry kindling. Scouting For Girls, Official Handbook of the Girl Scouts David nodded and looked over to the fire, which was not much more than a heap of red coals and white ashes. The Doers At every pace his boots kicked up showers of white ashes. Wilmshurst of the Frontier Force A scale of intolerance containing the important species, and beginning with the most light-demanding, would run as follows: Cottonwood, sycamore, red gum, white elm, white ash, and red maple. Seasoning of Wood No one could look on her white ash floor and not admire the polish her industry gave it. How To Behave: A Pocket Manual Of Republican Etiquette, And Guide To Correct Personal Habits Embracing An Exposition Of The Principles Of Good Manners; Useful Hints On The Care Of The Person, Eating, Drinking, Exercise, Habits, Dress, Self-Culture, And Behavior At Home; The Etiquette Of Salutations, Introductions, Receptions, Visits, Dinners, Evening Parties, Conversation, Letters, Presents, Weddings, Funerals, The Street, The Church, Places Of Amusement, Traveling, Etc., With Illustrative Anecdotes, a Chapter on Love and Courtship, and Rules of Order for Debating Societies I had a huge elm and a very tall white ash killed. Northern Nut Growers Association Incorporated 39th Annual Report at Norris, Tenn. September 13-15 1948 In the centre lay the white ashes of many fires, on opposite sides of which stood two half-burned sticks which had supported kettles. The Young Alaskans It seemed to him that they had been made by heels, and he also saw at one place a pinch of brown ashes unlike the white ashes left by the fire. The Border Watch A Story of the Great Chief's Last Stand In quality it is known as "red ash" and "white ash," the former being the superior. Commercial Geography A Book for High Schools, Commercial Courses, and Business Colleges She made no answer, but walked to the fireplace, dropped the letter in a bed of writhing blue flame and watched it burn to white ashes. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1902 to 1903 The name refers to its antiquity and light-giving properties and perhaps also to the fact that when dead it is covered with a coat of white ashes. The Sacred Formulas of the Cherokees Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 301-398 Then there was a pale little girl left, who looked as if a breath would blow her away like white ashes. Little Prudy They found that it had been completely consumed, to the very last twig; and upon searching among the white ashes they found a calcined skull and a few fragments of the larger bones. Two Gallant Sons of Devon A Tale of the Days of Queen Bess At the one end there was a ring of black and white ashes with the heat still in them, and in the middle a Thing which hung by chains from an iron stake. The Justice of the King Under the center of it was a hole, ten inches across and a foot deep, filled with clean white ashes in which was a little charcoal, packed very hard. Scientific American Supplement, No. 664, September 22,1888 In the brazier which had warmed her tent the glowing bark and cinnamon had turned to cold, white ash. Under the Rose The coals of drift-wood soon died to white ashes in his grate. The Cobbler In The Devil's Kitchen From "Mackinac And Lake Stories", 1899 As the last white ashes in the fire crumbled and fell away into nothingness, the soul of Meleager departed. A Book of Myths A tiny column of blue smoke rose from the white ashes of the camp-fire, telling that a brand still smoldered there. Frank Merriwell's Bravery The white ash, the shag bark, the black cherry, will have become abundant. Old Mackinaw The Fortress of the Lakes and its Surroundings Then the logs glowed only as embers against their bed of white ashes and the table lamp burned on in single steadfastness. The Tyranny of Weakness As we rode away, nothing remained of Texian Boston except three patches of white ashes, and a few half-burnt logs, nor do know if that important city has ever been rebuilt. Travels and Adventures of Monsieur Violet The Chumleys were fast asleep; the wood fire had burned down into a faint glow that played over the white ashes, and the air seemed to be piercingly cold. Yussuf the Guide The Mountain Bandits; Strange Adventure in Asia Minor This stove is shaped like a flower-pot, made of thick metal, and is filled with fine white ashes. From Pole to Pole A Book for Young People Of these, the white oak, burr oak, white pine, whitewood or tulip tree, white ash, hickory and black walnut, are the most valuable. Old Mackinaw The Fortress of the Lakes and its Surroundings Habit.—Medium-sized to large tree, 30-70 feet high, with trunk 1-3 feet in diameter; erect, branches spreading, broad-headed; in general appearance resembling the white ash. Handbook of the Trees of New England And he opened the man's heart; and inside it was a black char, and white ashes lying in it. The Silver Crown Another Book of Fables This hole was entirely full of white ashes. The Cliff Ruins of Canyon de Chelly, Arizona Sixteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1894-95, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1897, pages 73-198 A log smouldered on the hearth, and below the great black pot which hung over it two or three pans and pipkins sat deep among the white ashes. The Long Night In slavery times they took red corn cobs burned them and made white ashes, sifted it and used it instead of soda. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 3 Winter Buds and Leaves.—Buds rounded, dark reddish-brown, more or less downy, smaller than those of the white ash, partially covered by the swollen petiole. Handbook of the Trees of New England "You know what kind of ashes a mess o' paper makes—layers of white ashes, sir, that kinder looks like papers yit." Murder at Bridge He did not even turn his head from his contemplative regard of the white ashes of the fire. The Triumph of John Kars A Story of the Yukon There was a smoldering fire, with diminutive whirlpools of white ashes. The Starbucks The hearth was a blackness sprinkled with white ashes, which made him think of the flour spilt on the dark ground. Strangers at Lisconnel The politician again barely grazed the cylinder of white ashes with his little finger. A Dream of Empire Or, The House of Blennerhassett The kiln is carefully watched until the fuel is thoroughly burnt to a white ash, when the vessels can be removed without danger of such blemishes. Illustrated Catalogue Of The Collections Obtained From The Indians Of New Mexico And Arizona In 1879 Second Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1880-81, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1883, pages 307-428 The fire leapt toward the middle of the room and fell back so much white ash. Lore of Proserpine Chestnut, white ash, tulip, poplar and black cherry are other species whose value for various purposes suggests the possible advisability of their introduction. Practical Forestry in the Pacific Northwest Protecting Existing Forests and Growing New Ones, from the Standpoint of the Public and That of the Lumberman, with an Outline of Technical Methods Immediately before us, in front of this battered white ash heap, were the remains of the rusted wire which had once been the maze in front of the German line. Letters from France The fire burned low—a mere twinkle in the white ashes, then David asked as one does ask a useless question: "Are those words over the fireplace, Doris?" The Shield of Silence A blue-jay screams from a broad-topped white ash which is so full of winged seeds that it looks like a mass of foliage. Some Winter Days in Iowa It was Argyl who spoke first, and only after nearly an inch of white ash had formed at the end of Conniston's cigar. Under Handicap A Novel This is especially true of the white ash, more commonly called the American ash. The Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56, No. 2, January 12, 1884 A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside Mr. Hume struck a match—for the fungus-lamp shed no ray—and holding it up, disclosed a slab of rock with a pile of white ash on it. In Search of the Okapi A Story of Adventure in Central Africa The side framing of the car is of white ash, doubly braced and heavily trussed. The New York Subway Its Construction and Equipment Their gray green trunks were in the foreground of the Master Planter's color design, the darker and taller background being a mixture of wild cherry, red oak, linden, and white ash. Some Winter Days in Iowa The fires had burned low, and the vagrant morning winds were beginning to scatter the white ashes. The Half-Hearted The fire had long since gone out—there was a heap of white ashes to mark the spot where it had been. Square Deal Sanderson The white ash fell, the clock ticked, the wind went around the house with a faint, banshee crying. Foes The fir logs had wasted away to a pile of white ash spotted with dying coals. Poor Man's Rock He went across the room and drew out a couple of chairs before the cold hearth where the white ashes and logs of last night's fire still rested. The King's Achievement Other trees that will burn well when green are cedar, white ash, locust or white oak. Outdoor Sports and Games Value for planting: The white ash grows rapidly. Studies of Trees There it lies," she replied, "and you might as well read it in those white ashes as extract it from me until the proper time comes. The Black Baronet; or, The Chronicles Of Ballytrain The Works of William Carleton, Volume One Whitney speaks of the region as abounding in oak of various kinds, chestnut, white ash, beech, birch, and maple, with some butternut and walnut trees. The Bay State Monthly — Volume 2, No. 1, October, 1884 The cactus burned rapidly with a light, sparkling blaze, and left a white ash, but the heavier wood, mixed with it, made a bed of coals that glowed long in the darkness. The Texan Star The Story of a Great Fight for Liberty On charcoal burns to a white ash, which moistened with nitrate of cobalt and heated shows the alumina reaction. A System of Instruction in the Practical Use of the Blowpipe Being A Graduated Course Of Analysis For The Use Of Students And All Those Engaged In The Examination Of Metallic Combinations The bark of the white ash is darker in color and the terminal twigs are more flattened than those of the black ash. Studies of Trees The best timbers for making rails, are pine, cedar, oak and black and white ash: these kinds of timbers will last about thirty years. Twenty-Seven Years in Canada West The Experience of an Early Settler (Volume I) She relapsed into silence and a chair; and he sat with gaze fixed on the hickory in the fireplace, burning to impalpable, white ash. The Three Black Pennys A Novel Not merely a charred, incinerated mass, the figure lay in the full appearance of life, a cast of the actual man, moulded with fineness from the white ashes of the fire! The Girl at the Halfway House A Story of the Plains It was about sixteen feet in length and was made of the bark of the red elm, the rim, however, being of white ash, stitched thoroughly to the bark. The Hunters of the Hills Wood more porous, lighter, softer, weaker, and darker colored than white ash. Studies of Trees Like a radiant hope it rose, faded, then leaped higher among the white ashes. The Man Thou Gavest When at last he crawled into his burrow, his fire was only white ashes, and he would not trouble to relight it. A Maid of the Silver Sea Then he turned to the window while Bull silently consulted the white ash of his cigar. The Man in the Twilight The ribs also were of white ash, strong and flexible, and fastened at each end under the rim. The Hunters of the Hills For a moment there was silence before the white ash and the dying heart of the wood, then Rand with the tongs squared a flaky bed and drew from top to bottom a jagged line. Lewis Rand Among the white ashes a tiny red spark was showing. The Man Thou Gavest In making it the rags are lighted, and when in a blaze and before they are burnt to white ashes, the flame is stifled out. The Art of Travel Shifts and Contrivances Available in Wild Countries His eyes were again pre-occupied with the white ash, so firm and clean on its tip. The Man in the Twilight Unweighted silk does not burn readily and leaves a residue of white ashes, while heavy weighted silk burns lively, leaving black, charry ashes. Theory of Silk Weaving A Treatise on the Construction and Application of Weaves, and the Decomposition and Calculation of Broad and Narrow, Plain, Novelty and Jacquard Silk Fabrics It has burned, leaving a white ash or residuum, and here also we find that the metal has a certain amount of action upon water. The Chemical History of a Candle There would be no such white ashes of a spent fire for Julia to shiver over. The Doctor's Dilemma In the sky overhead were only light shreds of cloud, like bits of white ash floating up from burnt-out logs. Atlantida They also weave very useful sorts of baskets from the inner rind of the bass-wood and white ash. The Backwoods of Canada Being Letters From The Wife of an Emigrant Officer, Illustrative of the Domestic Economy of British America Menstruation, Profuse: Extracts of white ash bark, two drams; black haw, two drams; cramp bark, two drams; unicorn root, one dram; Squaw wine, one dram; blue cohosh, one dram. Searchlights on Health The Science of Eugenics As we rode away, nothing remained of Texan Boston except three patches of white ashes, and a few half-burnt logs, nor do I know if that important city has ever been rebuilt. Monsieur Violet The heap of white ashes, under which the wood coals were still alive in the big brazier, diffused a little warmth through the chilly room. In the Palace of the King A Love Story of Old Madrid Life is endless, but you can think it short, "The power of an endless life," is within you, but by thinking you can turn it to the white ashes of old age. Supreme Personality The fire in front of the lean-to was a bed of white ashes. The Lady of Big Shanty Everything before our trembling eyes was changed, being covered over with white ashes as with deep snow. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 10 — Lives and Letters A chimney spacious as a crater let smoke and white ashes upward, and sections of trees smouldered on Saint-Castin's hearth. The Chase of Saint-Castin and Other Stories of the French in the New World Then their black spectres haunted the waterside, Charred ruins, broken-limbed, no more erect, Or heaped black dust, with cold white ashes flecked. Poems New and Old "I can see where they had a camp fire!" cried Tom, pointing toward a pile of white ashes. Comrades of the Saddle The Young Rough Riders of the Plains The white ash is a graceful tree, rising in the forest to the height of seventy or eighty feet, with a straight trunk and a diameter of three feet or more at the base. Among the Trees at Elmridge He was smoking a long black stogie, and scattered upon his vest and in a semicircle surrounding his chair was a sprinkling of white ash from vanished predecessors. Where the Trail Divides Passion, if it had ever burnt in these British soldiers' hearts, had smouldered out into the white ash of patient misery. The Soul of the War There were dead white ashes on the hearth, and the silence was grimly kept by the dumb household gods. The Lions of the Lord A Tale of the Old West Night by night, from my dry grass bed I beheld Nuflo sitting in his old doubled-up posture, his big brown feet close to the white ashes—sitting silent and miserable. Green Mansions: a romance of the tropical forest How many men there are in modern life who would like to see their past burning to white ashes before them! An Ideal Husband The peat fire had long gone out and left only a heap of white ashes. The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies He looked up for a moment in the air, and thought that those white ashes strewn upon his hopes and misery, were suited to them well. The Battle of Life Already their fire had paled, and the embers, but a little before glowing red, seemed now to be only white ashes. The Lions of the Lord A Tale of the Old West Then the witch was terrified, and taking a young oak tree she burnt it into white ashes, and sprinkled the ashes on the stones that stood around. The Violet Fairy Book Close by the trunk of the tree, and facing the doorway of the hut, the household fire glowed in a small handful of embers in the midst of a large circle of white ashes. An Outcast of the Islands Laputa's tall figure stood swaying above the white ashes, his hand pressed to his side. Prester John A thousand sweet faces glowed in the pink and white ashes of his campfire, the faces of other sweethearts or wives that had gleamed for other men. Desert Gold Fred studied the white ash of his cigarette before he flicked it off. The Song of the Lark All the manuscript had been burned, and the blue flames were flickering amongst the white ashes. Dracula I poked the fire with a stick, turning up masses of live coals and clouds of white ashes. Before Adam An epic, indeed a dozen of them, was converted to white ashes before the single sheet of an old ballad was half consumed. Earth's Holocaust (From "Mosses from an Old Manse") A soft wind fanned the paling embers, blew sparks and white ashes and thin smoke away into the enshrouding circle of blackness. Desert Gold The fire had sunk low, and lay smouldering beneath the white ashes, like the life of the world beneath the snow, or the heart of a man beneath cold and grey thoughts. The Portent & Other Stories Now, one by one, these lamps were going out, and there were now no women here: instead, Jurgen trod inch deep in fine white ashes, leaving the print of his feet upon them. Jurgen A Comedy of Justice Except the deeply-rutted road, torn by the heavy wheels of the artillery, and the white ashes of a wood fire, nothing marked their progress. Charles O'Malley, The Irish Dragoon, Volume 2 The largest specimen yet received is a section of the white ash, which is 46 inches in diameter and 182 years old. Scientific American Supplement, No. 360, November 25, 1882 On the hearth, above the white ashes, an earthenware stew-pot was boiling away with a gentle purring. The Quest Three thousand four hundred pounds of white ash to 2,100 pounds of lime are the proportions in which the liquor in each vat is mixed. Scientific American Supplement, No. 363, December 16, 1882 Tiens!" he said, taking me presently upon his knee and brushing the specks of white ash from my clothes and hair, "what a little Cinderella I have made of my guest! Monsieur Maurice A strange scene met their eyes, all the wide lands that had been covered with giant trees were now piled over with white ashes amongst which, here and there, stood a black and smouldering trunk. The Ghost Kings A furious flood of disappointment overcame him when he thought of his lifelong ambitions as a warrior—now only dry, white ashes. The Way of an Indian None would have thought, from the happy smile upon my lips, that I was thinking of a Grecian urn and a little pile of white ashes. Memoirs of My Dead Life Here tears came into his eyes and he dropped his head on his hand, and the cigar from it fell on to the floor, burnt almost out, and scattering white ashes. The Newcomes Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family After calcining the bones, I treated the white ash with various acids and alkaloids, and with fire and water, returning again and again to the trials when I had time. A March on London When the incense smoke cleared away, nothing could be seen on the hearth but the bright hickory coals in their bed of white ashes. Saxe Holm's Stories There was a hot, sulphureous vapor in the air, and showers of white ashes fell, from time to time. The Lands of the Saracen Pictures of Palestine, Asia Minor, Sicily, and Spain Raise the temperature until it is red hot; allow the dish then to cool; a fine white ash will be left behind. A Practical Physiology Now all trace of the peel was gone and the logs had fallen to a white ash. There's Pippins and Cheese to Come The priests and their attendants were all shaven-headed and splattered with wet pitch black coal dust, scarlet red goat's blood, and white ashes from head to toes. Si'Wren of the Patriarchs It would soon bake you a buffaloe whole, or for that matter powder his hoofs and horns into white ashes. The Prairie The talk lasted for a long time, until the fire burned out into cold, white ashes, and Polly shivered in her mother's arms. Half a Dozen Girls This peculiar distribution seems to confirm the observations made long ago at Vesuvius, that the white ashes are thrown out last, and indicate the end of the eruption. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 At night, if any embers remained glowing, a few shovelfuls of this heap of white ash were thrown over them before retiring, and so the fire was "douted." The Life of the Fields The Policeman looked long and curiously at the marriage bed of red and white ashes on which lay, dull black, the barrel of the Ranger's gun. Life's Handicap Between us, in front of the fire stood the tripod and the bowl of black stone at the bottom of which lay a pinch of white ashes, the remains of the Taduki. The Ancient Allan Underneath them were white ashes, where Farmer Green had built wood fires, to smoke the hams. Sleepy-Time Tales: the Tale of Fatty Coon The wind began to moan about the cottage, and grew louder and louder, till a great gust came down the chimney, and again scattered the white ashes all over the place. A Double Story The bulk of three cigars had passed into the invisible or diffused as a white ash over the carpet before he spoke again. The Invisible Man A few lifting heaves and they were over the bar with the men at the oars bending the white ash at every swing. The Spoilers Nothing could be seen but the reddish glow of the charcoal, which was slowly going out under a little heap of white ashes in two small stoves. The Clique of Gold We must not let it blaze again just yet," said Sam; "keep it down well with sticks, to make some nice white ashes for the potatoes. The Stokesley Secret The fire has again buried itself in white ash and ceased to glow. Man and Superman Not unfrequently we would pass on the track side small heaps of white ashes, with a calcined bone or two among them. The Discovery of the Source of the Nile Then she took some of the white ashes and threw them toward that city, muttering curses as she did so. Red Eve In the bottom was no more than a few crumpled white ashes and a blister of paint where the flame had caught the side. The Clue of the Twisted Candle Then recalling a bit of woodland lore once communicated to her by a charcoal-burner, she broke a spray of the white ash, and laid it before her in the track of the rattlesnake. Openings in the Old Trail Tembarom watched him do this until he saw it go out, and its white ash drop on the rug at his feet. T. Tembarom Beneath his projecting black brows, his eyes gleamed doubtful, as a wood-fire where white ash dims the glow. Sir Gibbie He knocked the white ashes out of his pipe—it had been curling in brave wreaths to the very ceiling two minutes before—and sat musing. John Halifax, Gentleman A heap of white ashes on the marble floor, just in front of the divine Raphael's picture of the Madonna da Foligno! The Marble Faun - Volume 2 The Romance of Monte Beni But these sepulchres are so old, and these skulls and white ashes so very dry, that methinks they have ceased to be haunted. The Marble Faun - Volume 1 The Romance of Monte Beni Then marched the firstborn and his sons O'er the white ashes of the wood, And counted of that savage brood Nine times nine thousand skeletons. Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 3 Next the Greeks made a great pile of dry wood, and laid Achilles on it, and set fire to it, till the flames had consumed his body except the white ashes. Tales of Troy: Ulysses, the sacker of cities The stranger bent down and wrote with his finger in the white ashes of the fire. Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland The cow-boy is now gone to worlds invisible; the wind has blown away the white ashes of his camp-fires; but the empty sardine box lies rusting over the face of the Western earth. The Virginian, a Horseman of the Plains A dense coat of white ash lay upon the embers. Dope A cool wind fanned the embers, whipped up flakes of white ashes, and moaned through the trees. Light of the Western Stars The whole structure of glowing logs fell down, raising a small turmoil of white ashes and sparks. The Arrow of Gold A Story Between Two Notes |
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