| 单词 | ash |
| 例句 | He teaches in the one classroom with a platform so that he can stand above us and threaten us with his ash plant and peel his apple for all to see. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z The food was ashes in his mouth, but he swallowed every mouthful rather than risk offending any of the men connected with its preparation. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Odors of the night and autumn and the swamp entered to mingle with the inside odors of children, kerosene, cold beans, urine and the dead incense of pine ashes. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Both of them got the filled ash cans up on the curb each day. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z A squabble of costumed microraptors burst out of the doorway first, followed by Mapper, his glasses all smoked over and his dark skin smudged with ashes. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z It surrounded her with a swirl of gray ashes. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “We’ll use it for cover then make a run for the ash.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z The deep red fruit of the mulberry is the everlasting memorial of these true lovers, and one urn holds the ashes of the two whom not even death could part. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Once they dig through those ashes and come up missing eleven bodies, they’ll know we escaped. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Whoever had carved up the ash had eluded his sentries, plainly. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Smell of earth and wet ash in the rain. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z The air smelled of ash, every rock and tree in sight was scorched and blackened, the ground strewn with burned and broken bones, yet it had been home to him. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I brushed the singeing ashes away from my face as I frantically grabbed for the door to open it. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Then when they had laid their fallen comrades in a mound and had sung their praises, the Riders made a great fire and scattered the ashes of their enemies. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z The winds had swept the ash and dust from the surface. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z “If a warlock’s spell could kill me, I would be dead by now. I left their palace all in ashes.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Of the fishing village, nothing remained but cold ashes that stank when it rained. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Leaping over bonfires, rubbing ash beneath your eyes, picking on little kids? All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z “My opponent is now a pillar of ash standing in a field in Kyoto,” she says. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z In the center of the yard, a doomed ash tree was green with new leaves. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z “I suppose you’ll work that way at first. But nine years is a long time. You’ll get mighty tired of sailing by ash breeze.” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Staring at the plaster death figures in the museum window, she wondered what they had been thinking as they curled up to die in the ashes. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z On the screen, the volcano’s opening spewed smoke and ash. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z The great mound of ashes in the barnlot was soon beaten into a hard-packed mass by driving rain and the heat of spring and early summer. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z With the tiniest flick of her finger, she made the ash drop. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The ash flow had buried a river that had contained crocodiles. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He found an ash stick and began to beat the heads off the tall plants of cow parsley. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z When they combed through the ashes of the house it was impossible to pick his body from those he had harbored, as the fire had eliminated the differences in their skin, leveling them. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z The old woman says you don’t have to be in a state of grace to get a few ashes on your forehead and tells Malachy stop tormenting his poor little brother. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Her heart of compressed ash, which had resisted the most telling blows of daily reality without strain, fell apart with the first waves of nostalgia. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z If the Queen died without an heir, the ash that had blanketed Taninli would spread, sifting into the cracks and corners of the Wood, sinking into the Nir until the river became thick and slow. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Ash and bone is Astapor, and ash and bone its people. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Afterward he had knelt amongst the banes and ashes to retrieve a slag of melted silver and cracked jet, all that remained of the wolfs-head brooch that had once been Bran's. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z They were crossing the broad coastal plain where the secular winds drove them in howling clouds of ash to find shelter where they could. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z Like the last person in the household to retire for the night, it would be Jefferson’s responsibility to close up the fireplace and “rake the ashes over the coals.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z They lay in the leaves and the ash with their hearts pounding. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z We powdered ourselves with ash to imitate ghosts. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z When the ash grew heavy she leaned over and with her forefinger she pushed the head of ash away. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z The ash on his cigarette was about an inch long. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z He tried for them in all directions, but his nose was useless, the fine scenting nerves numbed by ash and soot. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z The ashes left a black smudge on his finger. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z “Fire!” someone yelled, just as the crisp smell of ash and burning wood reached Magdalys’s nose. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z Of the stables, made of wood and thatch, nothing remained but ashes, embers, and dead horses. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Way down Carpenter’s Road, where the concrete sidewalks started, children hurried to the sliding places before shopkeepers and old women sprinkled stove ashes, like ancient onyx, onto the new-minted silver. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z I thought of all the ash cans I had knocked over on the streets of New York. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Then he leaned forward and ducked his head and shoulders far back into the stove for the rest of the ashes. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “My job is done,” she announced, pouring the remaining black ash onto the red cloth. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z The blowing snow had covered the ashes at the base of the pyre and crept up the dead man’s leg as far as his ankle. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Or perhaps the last music on earth called up from out of the ashes of its ruin. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z Leaves fell around him like hot fluttering moths while branches withered to embers and ash. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z He was under the bare ash boughs and the flowering blackthorn of March. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Maybe it’s because I still have the ashes of my own district on my shoes, but for the first time, I give the people of 13 something I have withheld from them: credit. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z He exhaled a thin stream of filtered smoke and aimed the cigarette’s ashes like a marksman directly at the center of his ashtray. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z On the night table beside the ash tray overflowing with crushed butts stood the empty bottle, but the last thing I remembered before the curtain came down was watching myself take the second drink. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z “I left him in the ballroom. We’re to meet him by the ash.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z This means that she was put into a coffin and burned and ground up and turned into ash and smoke. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z "You'd like that, wouldn't you? To see my prize reduced to ruins and ashes." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Hallis Mollen went before them through the gate, carrying the rippling white banner of House Stark atop a high standard of grey ash. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z All are repentant, all are preparing themselves for the shock of the laying of the ashes on the forehead and the priest’s agonizing words, “Thou art dust, and to dust thou shalt return.” Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “Wouldn’t some of the ashes still be there?” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The words float by, flecks of ash, seeds on the breeze, remnants of another life that hasn’t quite vanished. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Francie got the idea of tipping over the cans, dumping the ashes on the cellar floor, carrying the empty cans up to the curb and then refilling them with coal buckets. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Bigger knew that soon he would have to clean the ashes out, for the fire was not burning as hody as it should. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z When she got home today, there’d be nothing but a pile of ashes. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Then, just as in her nightmares, the Mark of Athena burned across the walls, incinerating the spiders until the room was empty except for the smell of sickly sweet ashes. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z I knew they contained the ashes of dead people. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z Red sank to ashes in the west, and ash-grey sank to black. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z She adjusted the ash pan, stoked the fire, and closed the lid. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Far away, in the little parlor, the ash dropped softly in the fireplace. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z “I hide and try not to smell like a human. I’ve even smeared cedar boughs and ashes all over my body, but I still haven’t seen the Spirit Bear again.” Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z She felt the thick layers of ash coating her hands and knees as she worked her way along down the narrow chute. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z At first his screaming was just that, but then he began to babble, yelling about the seas boiling and ash raining from the sky and an endless blanket of smoke smothering the earth. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z I rolled my eyes, then shielded them as a blast of wind blew dust and ash into my face. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z They carried swords and ash spears tipped with iron. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z Has Werner ever seen snow this white, snow that was not fouled immediately with ash and coal dust? All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z “It’s been in a demon’s hair for who knows how long. How’d she even get it there if everything she touches turns to ash?” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z As you would expect, the ash turned day to night and got into everything, clogging motors, generators, and electrical switching equipment, choking pedestrians, blocking filtration systems, and generally bringing things to a halt. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z He reached and got the broom and swept away the ash. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z During the course of that week, at different places along the coast, his seventeen sons were hunted down like rabbits by invisible criminals who aimed at the center of their crosses of ash. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Matthias took a group of Redwall mice to instruct in the use of the quarter staff—he had discovered in himself a natural skill with the long ash pole. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z The wind brought the rest of the burning cabin down to ashes, soaking it with icy rain. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z He found her cleaning pots with sand and ashes. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z The church is crowded with people at seven o’clock Mass getting the ashes on their foreheads. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z “It’s £ash and Jewel and Vardaman and Dewey Dell,” pa says, kind of hangdog and proud too, with his teeth and all, even if he wouldn’t look at us. As I Lay Dying 1930-01-01T00:00:00Z Through the glass I saw him gazing at the long ash of his cigar, holding it delicately in his slender, manicured fingers. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z He led her into the forest, Idunn holding tightly to her ash box containing the apples of immortality. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z He had told his parents he’d be spending the night on the boat in the marina, then sailing out the next day to leave Owen’s ashes in the sea. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z A week after putting her to sleep, I received Neil's ashes in a forest green can. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Most of the original Fragment had been destroyed by the fire, the burning pages flapping and frittering away into ash, all their words turned to dust. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Plates of cracked macadam showing through the drifts of ash. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z She whispered to Brave Orchid that the reason the family must not go out was that “they” would take us in airplanes and fly us to Washington, D.C., where they’d turn us into ashes. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z They crossed a river by a concrete bridge where skeins of ash and slurry moved slowly in the current. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z They acquired big houses on streets named Harvard and Yale that were lined with elm, ash, sycamore, and linden and posted with signs barring all but essential wagon traffic. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Tomorrow its ashes will be scattered to the four winds. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z “Oh, Saints, please let that be Jesper,” she pleaded as they pulled themselves over the lip of the gorge and looked back at the bridge festooned with ribbons and ash boughs for Hringkalla. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Ashes to ashes, we say at the grave site with each handful of dirt we drop gently onto his lowering casket. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z She used it to sweep the ground around her, to create a huge cloud of ash that rose up like a smoke signal. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z But she had not understood being excluded from the family’s plans to travel to Calcutta that summer to see their relatives and scatter Ashoke’s ashes in the Ganges. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z And smoke would fill my lungs, hot and smothering, like ashes crammed down my throat—I could taste it now. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Its Ark was a gutted mass of charred wood, its four Torah scrolls were seared black, its holy books were piles of gray ash blown about by the wind. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z The first day, Ma cleaned and brushed all the ashes out of the cookstove. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Bread and wine, water, oil, salt, and ash—through ceremonies of guilt and redemption, sorrow and rebirth, through the passing liturgical year, my boyhood assumed all significance. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The bones on the floor of the pit were deeper than the last time she had been down here, and the walls and floors were black and grey, more ash than brick. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Dark clouds of ash spew out of the top, and red lava snakes down the side of the mountain. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z Fireflies of color faded into her honey-blonde hair and scattered into ash at her feet. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z Occasionally, the embers of the fires flared to life in the breeze, the last standing columns of wood collapsing one by one, crumbling into ash. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z I am, she says, and enjoying it down to the last ash. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z The men were silent, bent over, poking into the pile of grey ashes. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Ralph said no more, did nothing, stood looking down at the ashes round his feet. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z The ashes scatter into the sunlit air, land on the surface, and sink almost immediately. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z A wash of sudden heat assaulted them, heavy with the odors of ash, brimstone, and burnt meat. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Colonel Aureliano Buendía did not show any sign of anger, but his spirit only calmed down when his bodyguard had sacked the widow’s house and reduced it to ashes. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Then they built a new house on the ashes of the old. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z Now potters used wood ash deliberately, each with his own secret formula, to produce the sought-after glaze. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z We get three seconds Of pinwheels, whistling banshees, Some cones and pyramids That stink but won’t work, And black pills That vomit snakes Of ash. Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Among the ashes lay the metal spangle from the ballerina's dress; it had been burned as black as coal. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z The spears were eight feet long and made of ash. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “You’d better do something about those ashes, boy!” one of the men called. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Janice didn’t see them but heard they were covered in a film of ash, as if they’d slept through a gentle, black snow. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Then she realized she hadn’t washed her hands since Brahmasura became a pile of ashes. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Both had elegant yellow cedar washboards, ash frames, Sitka-spruce gunnels, fore and after decking made of silk impregnated with varnish. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z “Evening, Potter. Try not to get too much ash on the carpet.” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z He’s found some neat stuff like old flags and broken furniture that looks like ninja weapons, but mostly he just finds food leftovers, cigarette ashes, and beer bottles. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z There’s a church just outside the village where Megan’s ashes are buried, next to the bones of her daughter, Libby. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z She saw the ashes of a fire, a few score houses milling listlessly and searching for a bite of grass, a scattering of tents and bedrolls. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z It’s strange that anyone would be interested in this ugly thing except for maybe wanting to burn it and dance on the ashes. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z “She helped carry out the ashes this morning, and it tired her.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z The ashes were a gray, rubbled mass that didn’t even fill the box. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z When it dropped through the ash, it came out as lye. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z I stood on that burnt-up field with the taste of ashes in my mouth, ashes in my eyes, on my hair and my dress, all stained and tarnished. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z His thick lips nursed a big, black cigar that held white ashes an inch long. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z He’s imagined it containing everything from his granddad’s ashes to the bones of some beloved pet to heaps of glittering jewels. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z He came to the ashes of the watch-fire near the river-bank, and then began to retrace the ground back towards the knoll where the battle had been fought. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z She searched the room but it was not until she was emptying an ash tray into the fireplace that she noticed the charred curl of paper in the hearth. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Two pencil stubs, one bent playing card, and a small ash tray. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z Ralph put his hand in the cold, soft ashes of the fire and smothered a cry. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z I dug out the embers from the ashes of the kitchen fireplace and laid tinder on them. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Her footsteps kicked up clouds of ash that burned her eyes. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z In the next shop, empty of goods, there were signs of recent habitation by the shirtmen: blankets and mattresses laid upon the floor, clothing deposited in a corner, and recent ashes on the grate. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z My head began to spin and black flecks like ashes scattered across my sight. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Nor is that a sheep's skull in the ashes. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z One of the three shops it contained was for rent and another was an all-night restaurant approached by a trail of ashes; the third was a garage--Repairs. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z It became roughly her height, other than the dark red horns rising in the shine of the streetlight, and smoke wafted out of its mouth, smelling like ash. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z The logs popped, spitting ashes out of the barrel. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z It was a dark old man with large green eyes that gave his face a ghostly phosphorescence and with a cross of ashes on his forehead. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z All around the courtyard, spirals of ash swirled into the air. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z One morning he went to light the fire as usual and on the extinguished ashes he found the food that he had left for her the day before. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z A black cloud of smelting smoke blew over the beach, enveloping them in haze and ash. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z She led the way to the backyard, and after Mrs. Muokelu had explained and demonstrated how to make soap she stowed the ash near the pile of cement blocks. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z A few shreds of clothing blown against the wall, everything gray in the ash. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z The encircled ground was still ashes and rubble. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s pitiful and ugly seeing remaining ash, blackened trees and ground. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z Maybe he could sift the ashes down more and make that do until the men left? Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z More amused than devout, they let themselves be led to the altar rail where Father Antonio Isabel made the sign of the cross in ashes on them. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z I held him in my arms at night and saw parts of his soul turn to ash. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z At one point, when Morrie’s ashes were placed into the ground, I glanced around the cemetery. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The head fell off the Smith with a puff of ash and embers. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z All these items ended up in Gregor's room, even the box of ashes and the garbage pail from the kitchen. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z Then, in the space of a night and a day, this was all reduced to ashes. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z The man with the shovel stood in front of the furnace and looked down into the ashes strewn over the floor. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z 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 Already there was a fresh fall of ash on it. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z “She sent that loaf of white bread fer our supper; it’s fresh out of the ashes.” Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z The night was not dark enough to hide what lay on the lawn outside: a shapeless mound of ashes, pale gray in the moonlight, gray as moth wings, gray as burnt paper. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z He jumped over the ashes and stood at the mouth of the cave, sniffing the air. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z A small wind had risen with the sun, blowing drifting snow over the smoking ashes. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Malloy took a long long long drag on the cigarette, turning half of it instantly to ash. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z He was still, and the color of ash. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The wind carried volcanic ash and forest fire ash and ash that no one wanted to identify down the slope of the mountain and deposited it in the streets. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z Mam smiles, too, but it’s a very quick smile and when she looks into the ashes you can see the worry where the corners of her mouth turn down. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z She flicked her cigarette ash self-consciously, just missing the ashtray. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z Plants blossomed in the thick black earth, sprawling out in all directions while trees—palm, oak, ash, and fruit-bearing ones of every variety—reached up into the misty heights, their branches draped with vines. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z No shells fall and no rifles crack and the light is soft and shot through with ash. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z The masses were told to make toibee, a fertilizer in which ash is mixed with human excrement. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z The charred meat and bones under the damp ash might have been anonymous save for the shapes of the skulls. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z All the candles in the room had been blown out and the fire reduced to ash. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z “We'll turn to ashes in this house without men, but we won't give this miserable town the pleasure of seeing us weep.” One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z In the ashes he spotted the charred blade of a hunting knife from one of the boxes. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z Directly in the center, an ash pile sat underneath the opening at the very top of the dome. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z Her voice was quieter than the wind in the ashes. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z She visited the ruins of the Seymour house daily, waiting for them to cool enough so that she could poke through the ash with a hoe, in search of coin or melted silver. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z I left them there, resting sedately under the shade of a tall ash tree, far off into the woods, out of sight of anyone driving by. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z Hugo touched the ashes and then let them fall to the floor with the handkerchief. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z At the ash tree, Gwydion’s blade rang and clashed among the leaves. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z With his laser tube, Rick systematically burned into blurred ash the book of pictures which he had just a few minutes ago bought Luba. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z Tanin fed leaf after leaf into the campfire, where they curled inward like blazing tongues before they shriveled and turned to ash. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z "Place a pinch of sacred ash from the temple on your turban every morning, and as you do so, remind yourself that you must be firm with him." Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z Her pink housedress was covered in scorch marks and smears of ash. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z Using the few tools they saved, he fashioned two camp stoves, one using the ash chute from the ship’s boilers, and another, smaller one from the ash bucket. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z The house where she lived with the grandmother who had raised her was reduced to ashes. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z I somehow knew that if I looked, I would disintegrate into ashes. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z He leaned on his cane and lowered himself into the road where he sat among the ashes with one hand over his head. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z First the man was Father Amadi, his soutane flying behind him, then it was Papa, in the floor-length gray sack he wore when he distributed ash on Ash Wednesday. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z Timothy had found several pieces of wood with bolts in them; had burned them, then raked the bolts out of the ashes. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Underneath were the ashes of a fire and blackened billets of wood. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z Tayo poked a stick into the coals and watched them lose shape and collapse into white ash. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z The land under the castle swelled—it rose and rose and rose, and great plumes of smoke and ash came billowing from its center. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z I had never used a toothbrush and toothpaste before; at home, we used ash to whiten our teeth and toothpicks to clean them. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He bent down, touched the ash on the floor beside the fire, sniffed it, then touched it to his tongue. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z While it was wonderfully satisfying to see a sturdy structure arise from the ashes, literally, what had lifted my spirits most was seeing all the Vida folks come out. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Then they’d drop the ashes in the wind, leaving no evidence. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The teacher, who reeked of sour ash, rapped the tiny backs of his students’ hands when they made a mistake. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Some people said ash was good for the carpets. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z He heard the man grunting and saw him bent over, digging at the ashes in the bin. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z He stood watching her as she left the room, with her poster and her cigarette; a few ashes had fallen to the floor where she'd been standing. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z She picked up the ash with her fingers and put it in. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z “So? What are they going to do? Make us scoop the ashes back into the urn?” The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z The floors were filled with heaps of ashes; no solid form of a body was inside. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z The Osage historian Louis F. Burns observed that after “only shreds and tatters remained” of his people, they had risen “from the ashes of their past.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Because between my father and Prim and the ashes, the place is too painful to bear. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Now they had volcanic ash to deal with. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z I try to call out, begging them to stop, but the ashes fill my mouth and nose and I can’t make any sound. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z He stared up at the smoking hill of ash and then down at the stampede of footprints around it. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z We walked back jubilant that day in the coppery twilight already edged with black, like ashes around dying embers. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z The wind picked up and howled across the field, stirring eddies of ash. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z From the pyres of the dead rose black columns of smoke and white-hot ashes. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Djel, the wellspring, who fed the seas and rains, and the roots of the sacred ash. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z All that Owen had been reduced to a small container of ashes. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z He filled one of his mother’s long black stockings with ashes and roamed the streets with his gang swinging his homely blackjack and crying out raucously from time to time. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z There I buried the ashes of my fires and threw sand over the shelves and the floor. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z Her face looked bloodless, as gray as fireplace ash. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z He runs to the altar and when he comes back the woman gives him a penny to go with his ashes. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z The wind that came up off the prairie could’ve blown me away like so much ash. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z Coll disappeared inside the cottage to search for Hen Wen’s letter sticks, the long rods of ash wood carved with spells. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z Once I had overheard Bertha tell Mandy that he was only a person on the outside and that his insides were ashes mixed with coins and a brain. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z He strolled over to the boxes that had contained the books that were now burnt to ashes, and reached into one. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z The Sun’s stellar ash can be reused for fuel only up to a point. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “And that, my young friends, is the story of our country, one invader after another,” the driver said, flicking cigarette ash out the window. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z The sky choked on smoke and ash, and the people did, too, spending their days coughing and itching, their eyes turned forever toward the ground. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z “And that’s all it was, steam, mixed with a little bit of ash.” I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z The human girl is kneeling in front of a huge fireplace, sweeping up ash from the grate. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z There was dust in her mouth, the taste of ashes, gritty and dry. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z By dawn, the bonfire had dwindled to a smoldering hill of ash. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z When he flapped his wings, a cloud of grey ash filled the air. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The stick will sting, boys.The ash plant will whistle through the air, it will land on the backside of the boy that jeers, the boy that sneers. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z However, the interior frame of the boat, being made of ash that remained perpetually dry and rigid, would not allow it to expand. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z He rolled clumsily and pushed and squirmed backward, using the strength of his arms, until he was sitting with his back to the trunk of a tall ash. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Alum, lime, oak galls, urine, ashes, tallow, and stale beer — these are the tools of my trade. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z He was filling a pail with wood ash from the fireplace. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z When I looked again, the centaur was gone, disintegrated to ashes. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z The shirt became a mask that filtered out the ash. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z “After the first eruptions,” he said, “white volcanic ash rained from the sky for months. The dead and dying were covered in it. So now to wear white is to remember the dead.” Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z “Scattered them outside my old building. I still felt mad empty afterward, but they’re home now. I want the Plutos to scatter my ashes elsewhere.” They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Then they prepared the earth for planting, thankful that the lava and ash had fallen on the other side, sparing the property. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z For an extended pensive moment Ruby stood with her hands on her hips, an ash growing long on the cigarette held tightly between her unpainted lips. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Sourmelina noticed her ash for the first time, and flicked it. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Her hair had come down from its French knot and stuck all over her face, and her good blouse was smeared with black ash. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Naomi stepped off of the path, leaned against the smooth trunk of an ash tree, and slid down to sit at its base. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z “I don’t want my ashes here,” says Gat. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z She carried a box with her, made of ash wood, which contained golden apples. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z I carefully pushed the coals to the back of the fireplace and covered them with ashes. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Her eyes wandered over the blackened debris until they caught on something bright nearly lost among the ashes, something small and brilliant blue. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z The shape of a carpet beneath the silty ash. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z Hastily he stamped out what was left of the fire, scattered the ashes, and laid the turves on the hole. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z An eruption of Mount Elgon about seven million years ago had buried the rain forest in ash, and the logs had been transformed into opal and chert. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “But you’ve heard how it is near the holes. There was ashes in the air all the time. Disgusting. Everything started to die and turn into glass.” Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z I painted a map to the gravesite using the ash mixture and a feather from the owl. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z Poulsson tapped ashes from his pipe into the palm of his hand. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “We hope for better things; it will rise from the ashes.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Roy spotted a series of charred rocks encircling a layer of ashes: a campfire. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z She had just overturned the ashtray with her knee and was rapidly, with her fingers, brushing the spilled ashes into a little pick-up pile; her eyes looked up at him a second too late. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z There we find a large clay pot filled with hominy and venison stew, fish on the grill and bread baking in the hot ashes on the ground. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z They could take away your memories, or burn your body and soul to ashes. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Articles of clothing emerged from walls and from pits of ash and quicklime, including a girl’s dress and bloodstained overalls. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Your city is gone to ash and bone, your people are dying all around you. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “Varangians are good, ye hear? But Sigurd is as dark a man as can walk this earth. He’s mad, but a cunning mad. The kind of mad that’ll leave nothing but ashes where he goes.” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z We reached a stretch where ashes had been thrown onto the ice and the going was safer. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z They prowled under the trees as a piney wind blew ashes and embers through the sky. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z In the silence—while they stood, each with an elbow on the mantel and a foot towards the fire—the weightless ash shuffled down. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Through the swirling ash I saw the lines of black uniforms marching the kids from camp down the path to the cabins. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Otherwise the stop zone could end up as just so much ash and radioactive slop. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z “Why are you staring at ash and at sticks and scraps of wood when we could be chasing Loki? Kvasir! As you ponder and talk your nonsense he is getting away from us!” Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z And a Nivea tin full of smelly ashes, probably from some Ash Wednesday when Mama had dragged me to church. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Part of his ashes were sent to the Moon aboard the Lunar Prospector spacecraft. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z The ashes spread on the water and strangely now he did not cry but wished only to be gone. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z They pushed into the cab and he blew away the ash from the engineer’s seat and put the boy at the controls. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z He squats, his open palm above the ashes, burnt and unburnt bark. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z The ash tree is resilient and handsome and its roots go deep. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z After everyone left their offerings in the temple, he went in and spread fireplace ashes all over the floor. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z When I got to Mattie, her lips were as purple as the spring crocus, her skin the color of wet ashes. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Boo Boo sighed, and came away from the window with a long ash on her cigarette. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z The boy thought he smelled wet ash on the wind. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z They came eager for the great enterprise, to cross the sea and lay mighty Troy in ashes. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Some of the bones had not burnt and had fallen into the lower bin when he had worked the handle to sift the ashes. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z 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 I smell fire and ash, but I am not burned. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z That he could not enkindle in the heart of the child what was ashes in his own. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z The hut was empty, but ashes in the fireplace were still warm. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Ellen drew a flat loaf of white bread from the ashes of the fireplace and wrapped it in a clean cloth. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z Here was a piece of you, brought to us from the ashes of our old life. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z The drüskelle around the ash left off their rituals and began shouting orders, and a wave of guards descended from the towers to spread out over the island. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Sometimes she stares at me as though she wants to ask me something, but then looks down at the ashes of the fire pit. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Covered in ash, the thing that had been pulled from the back of his neck tried to run into a nearby shadow. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z His eyes shone from under the oil and dirt, blazes of blue in clouds of ash. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z From every side, the roar of conflagration; the air was mobile with sparks and gentle black ghosts of ash. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z “Clean out the hearth, and don’t get ashes everywhere.” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z All day 1 would see on the heedless foreheads of classmates the Hindu-like smudge of dark ash, the reminder of death. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He even accused Father Antonio Isabel of complicity for having marked his sons with indelible ashes so that they could be identified by their enemies. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z There were no furnishings, no sign that people had lived here but for some ashes beneath the smoke hole in the roof. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z And Bill answering quietly almost in his regular voice that they had decided to have the body cremated and were going to take the ashes to his family home in Pennsylvania tomorrow. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z With the mines closed, they plow the ashes into the earth and plant food. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z About the compound yard were strewn empty beer cartons and bottles, papers, rotting porridge, rags, overturned trash cans, overturned nightsoil buckets, ash from burnt peat and coal. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z His face, gray with dying and ash, seems to be receding. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z The manager closed the glass doors, wiped his hands, and glared at them until they ran away, brushing ash from their hair. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z Hugo set to work on the clocks, but no matter how he tried to distract himself, he kept seeing the handkerchief filled with ashes. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z Instead, she wanted to be cremated and have her ashes scattered in a sacred Native American ceremony somewhere in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The instructor had flipped open the shiny chrome ashtray in the arm of his door, and was flicking his ashes into it. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z I fetch one now, strike it against the box, and let Mrs. Janssen’s penciled sleuthing burn into sulfur and ash. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Then Turner took a vial of ashes from their own hearth and sprinkled them across the mounded grave. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z Anyway, he ain’t putting his ashes on the floor—he putting them in the ashtray, just like he knew what a ashtray was.” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z He went down to his knees and felt the tears start, cutting through the smoke and ash on his face, silently falling onto the stone. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z The animals had been found buried under volcanic ash up to ten feet deep. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z ‘We counted all the slain and despoiled them, and then we piled the carcases and burned them, as is our custom. The ashes are smoking still.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Then she reached in the fireplace for some ashes and went into the backyard for some dirt. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Nelson paused for a long time to wipe the ash from his face and puzzle over the metaphor of accessories and outfits. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The woman and the man, Life and Life’s Yearning, will come out from inside the ash tree that holds the worlds together. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z He spun and his body was thrown forward, so that he lay beside the ashes of our fire. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z She stares at me that way I stared at Dr. Katz the day I told her I could fly, like if I’m lying, she’ll turn to ash. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z There’s been next to no rain to disturb the piles of ash left by the attack. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z And sometimes he said again, “I am too old for you, and my fires are ashes.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z One of his eyes was burnt shut and his hair was but a nitty wig of ash upon his blackened skull. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z The amount of soot and floating ash from the impact and following fires would blot out the sun, certainly for months, possibly for years, disrupting growing cycles. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z More ash went drifting downward, and a bit of crumbling brick fell away. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z In the evening it all descended unseen, an invisible ash of distant fires, soiling us everywhere. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z The picture blew away like the ashes that had been beaten in the mortar so long ago in the village, the day Vatete died. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Some people were killed instantly, in the pyroclastic surge and blast of rock and ash. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z In the communal kitchen, smoke still rises from the ashes. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He saw the man stoop and poke the shovel into the ashes. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z A trickle of ash caught his eye, betraying movement. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z She shimmered into existence in front of me, scowling, her face streaked with ash and grime. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z I became very intent on moving ashes into piles. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z Through the walls of the house they could watch their neighbors raking through the ashes to find the bones. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z Our mothers were the ashes and we were the light. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z Instead of completely burning organic matter to ash, ancient farmers burned it incompletely to make charcoal, then stirred the charcoal into the soil. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z As soon as the procedure was completed, the coffin was covered with the lava-infiltrated earth and a dusting of some residual ash that had drifted to Selfoss from the recently erupted volcano. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The trees agreed, each after its kind, oak and ash, pine and beech, birch and fir, that their wood could never be used to hurt Balder. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z Had they followed Matthias and Nina to the river beneath the ash? Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z It was too dangerous for her to be flying so far with the air filled with smoke and ash. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z I poured the water into the ash hopper that stood beside the cabin. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z The red envelope, which had dropped from Ron’s hand, burst into flames and curled into ashes. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z A pillar of ash tumbled from his cigarette onto the threadbare hall carpet. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z “The midwife or a relative would take the back of a girl baby’s head in her hand and turn her face into the ashes,” said my mother. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z One year later his ashes were still in the possession of the undertaker who had received his body. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Powerful smells of straw and cow dung mingled with those of elm leaves, ashes and cattle feed. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z He explored her slowly, learning by heart the smoky scent of her body and her clothes, which had been washed with ash and pressed with a coal-filled iron. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z White with the ashes of a thousand dead covering their faces, their bodies. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z “Why didn’t you keep this fire burning?” he demanded, raising up the heater door and peering at the cold ashes on the grate. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The stink of ashes lingered in the humid air. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z He settled on the inner ash wood sill, leaning against the door jamb—cypress timber the skilled carpenter planed years ago and set up with a plumbline. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The same button that controlled the ignition first dumped the ashes of the previous fire, and allowed for the entrance of fresh wood.—It was a thoroughly domesticated fireplace, you see. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z The mortuary delivered Chris’s ashes to their hotel in a plastic box. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z There was no paper wads on the ceiling or ashes on the floor, and there was no stall doors missing like the bathrooms at school. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Dressed by the nereids and embalmed with honey, honey and unguent in the seething blaze, you turned to ash. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The soldiers soon had it ablaze, and it burned to ashes. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z This was the ash that made Mike Voorhies’s fossil beds in eastern Nebraska. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z “They all went out except Chipo, who was too weak to stand, and one old woman. She got a handful of ashes to fill the baby’s mouth.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z The gasping pools were choked with ash and crawling muds, sickly white and grey, as if the mountains had vomited the filth of their entrails upon the lands about. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Their remains drifted down like ash onto the sand, the surface of the water, everything. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z She laughed, she dropped cigarette ash on the floor. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z The world around us, ice and rock, ash and snow, fire and dark, trembles and twitches and mutters. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z They digitally dissolve into multicolored ash—in slow motion. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z She was still staring at the Hema’s remnants, still standing in its ashes, but a single word had ensnared itself in her mind. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z I clear the rubble across his chest so he can get air, even though that air is thick with smoke and ash and fumes. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z He had gotten some of the ashes down out of the stove, but they choked the lower bin and still no air could get through. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z She wondered if there was something wrong with herself, for ever since leaving the fortress of ice, she saw everything through a film of ashes. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Olanna went to the backyard and began to sift through the metal bucket of ash. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Rachel burned everything he ever gave her and left the ashes in front of his locker. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z Into a large gourd they placed her cut hair and head dyes, okra, ashes, and wisps of dried corn silks. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z “When someone is cremated after they die, their ashes are put in an urn.” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z She smokes openly now, ashing her cigarette directly onto the porch. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z I knew with horrible certainty that my friend had just been turned into a column of ashes. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z He delicately brushes his hair with his hand, as if it were strands of ash. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z He smelt the scent of coal and ashes and heard fire roaring. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z There was a slithering noise high above them, the sound of someone taking giant and dangerous strides on rock or ash. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z We will burn it and let the winds of the llano scatter the ashes. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The wind had blown the ash from the ice and the ice was black and the creek looked like a path of basalt winding through the woods. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z Then she burned some clean, bright hardwood, and saved its ashes. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z The sting of ashes in his eyes, tiredness, fear, enraged him. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z Thor nodded with enthusiasm, not entirely certain how he had come to this conclusion from ashes on the floor but happy to know where Loki was hiding. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z Then bum it, and scatter those ashes near the hated person. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z She was just another speck of gray in the endless ash sea. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z I took the bowls to the well in the courtyard and scoured them with ashes and sand. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z The largest has curdled into a pillar like the cloud of tephra and ash and steam that billows atop an erupting volcano. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Skin would be shined with Vaseline, while the forgotten bits—between the fingers or at the elbows—turned a dull ash. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z "Ashes to ashes, dust to dust," she murmured and thumped her breasts. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z I hope this holeless baby proves that my mother did not prepare a box of clean ashes beside the birth bed in case of a girl. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Afterward ashes rained down on haunted forest and Shivering Sea alike for almost half a year. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “You can use the scorch dragon to get the ash dragon,” says Will. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z I do not know what happens to the ash and I couldn’t ask at the crematorium because I didn’t go to the funeral. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z The ground felt warm and was loosely covered in a fine ash. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z She balled up the dress and flung it into the cold hearth, on top of the ashes of last night's Are. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z My mom nodded, and Carmen smiled as I watched Abuela’s and Abuelo’s ashes move with the current down the twists and turns of the many canals that made up our beautiful neighborhood. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Taran set himself more firmly against the ash tree and raised his knife. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z Beyond that the ocean vast and cold and shifting heavily like a slowly heaving vat of slag and then the gray squall line of ash. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z “Not even identifiable ashes. Dust. It does not exist. It never existed.” 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Gray ash collects on the grate; black burns scar logs. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z In the metal stand opposite the hearth where a fire now blazed up warmly, a cigar popped out, half an inch of soft gray ash on it, smoking, waiting. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z After the service, Gram’s ashes are buried next to Grandpa’s, under an old oak tree. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z Both of them were so covered with ashes they looked like the pot and the kettle, each one blacker than the other. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Stars exploded out the top of my head and all of my words and all of my rememberies followed them up to the sun, burning to ash that floated back and settled in the mud. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z At last they reached the safety of the Gryffindor common room, where the fire had burned itself into glowing ash. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z And a bit farther along, at the end of the row of cottages, a black spot on the ground where a fire had been, some bones in the ash, some feathers, the gleam of grease. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z The flame that issues from its nostrils is a brilliant blue and can reduce timber and bone to ash in a matter of seconds. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Bloom shifted, rustled, tapped his pipe out into his palm; the ashes made a sprinkling noise going into the wastebasket. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Bernabe carried the ash drawer from his kitchen stove out to the chicken pen and dumped the ashes over the fence so the chickens could fluff it into their feathers and kill mites. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z They hounded him even after death — the state confiscated his ashes after his cremation. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Beside her, a cigarette burned down to ash in an aluminum pie plate. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z It sits in the ashes, filled with a handful of pine needles steaming in water. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Every now and then her bony fingers swept ash off the page. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z One hit a doorpost in the hall, another stuck in the door’s thick timbering, still others rang on the stone wall, shivering hafts of ash. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The hearth was almost dead, just a few coals glowing deep in the ashes. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z The rock is solidified ash, the relic of an eruption of Mount Elgon. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It drifted down in gray flakes, like ash after a volcanic eruption. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z The ash blew and washed away, leaving the shards to cure in the heat and sun for the hundreds, perhaps thousands, of years down to the present. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z For a moment, there is only that, the heat of my fury turning my every thought to ash. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z The diary would be reduced to ashes and himself to vapor. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Moonlight shone down on the clearing, the ashes of the firepit, the snow-covered lean-to, the great rock, the little half-frozen stream. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z 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 When he felt that steel in his high behind he came on like Man o' War going to get his ashes hauled! Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z The Yellowstone eruption of two million years ago put out enough ash to bury New York State to a depth of sixty-seven feet or California to a depth of twenty. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z I stare down at my shoes, watching as a fine layer of ash settles on the worn leather. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Finally lava began to flow, and as a crowning punishment, ash fell on the villages close to the volcano. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He laughs and Mam stares into the dead ashes in the fireplace. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Even if they slap you six times on each hand with the ash plant or the blackthorn with the knobs you must not cry. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z The fire burned on the stone hearth and the cigar fell away into a mound of quiet ash on its tray. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z She's smarter than the Careers, actually finding a few useful items in the ashes. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z The box with Owen’s ashes was still on the shelf to his right. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z I said, “It rained ash upon the living and the dead. And gasses came out that were killing.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The BBC documentary had suggested that the existence of so much ash in Nebraska was a surprise. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Everything was covered with inches of ash, and in some spots it was very hot. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z She stands among the ashes, bends down, and sifts through a pile of burnt wood. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z At last the words of the chant floated up to them, across the bowl of blackened wood and ashes. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z I still stood by the fire, where the note had burned to fine ash. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Hari went on, “If I am very lucky, I will die in Varanasi so that my ashes will be scattered over the holy Ganges River; then my spirit will be free.” Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z His lungs ached from the ash in the air, and his mind filled with pictures of Bri trapped in the elevator, dying slowly and alone. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z My hands felt hot and sweaty on the smooth ash handle of the ax. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Then Nat’s days and nights settled down once more to the steady grind of sailing by ash breeze—working all day in the chandlery, studying late every night. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z In the remains of the gypsy camp there was nothing but a garbage pit among the still smoking ashes of the extinguished campfires. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z The gray of the roof, the gray of cigarette ashes, matches the pavement of the sidewalk and the street. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z James taught Sammy how to put out a fire properly; how to cover it with dirt and then stamp on it and wait, to be sure no telltale smoke rose from the ashes. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z Papa lifted the part that was over Camp’s head, put it down quick, and turned away, his face like ashes. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z The gate between the rampant wolves was wrought iron, bearing the symbol of the sacred ash and bordered by a high, spiked fence that circled the Ice Court’s grounds. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Michael starts to cry, I want the ashes, I want the ashes. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z They sat in the ashes by the side of the road and looked out to the east where the shape of the city was darkening into the coming night. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z She came down on a tor above the Hudson River and perched in an isolated ash tree. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Past a bombed library snowing ash and burning papers. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z She turns away from me and looks into the ashes in the range but I won’t leave her alone because I had my pint, two pints, and I’m sixteen tomorrow, a man. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z I even imagine that this tree was once a person, some Decker who was cremated and had asked to have their ashes packed into a biodegradable urn with a tree seed to give it life. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z I squinted into the ash grove, where the mist was heaviest. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z He flicked the ash off his cigarette and gave himself a self-satisfied look in the rear-view mirror. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Gwydion dragged the stupefied Taran to an ash tree and from his belt drew the hunting knife which he thrust in Taran’s hand. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z January 5 Night Mother runs in after work, hands clenched into white balls, words chopped into grunts, face of ash. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z Though his ashes have been scattered into the Ganges, it is here, in this house and in this town, that he will continue to dwell in her mind. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z It was in the fireplace, buried up to its hubs in wood ashes. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z The wheel struck flat, with Encanis on top.There was an explosion of spark and ash as it landed and sank inches deep into the hot coals. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z “It’s a silly holiday to celebrate the coming of winter. The bonfires just produce ash to cover the fields.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z The dragon had won, and Joaquin was just a pile of broken bones and ash on the scorched ground, out of time and out of lives. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z In some places wisps of pale smoke still rose from the ashes. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The second hand, the thinnest of the three, suddenly snapped and fell out of the clockface completely, bouncing once on the rug and disappearing into the ashes of the hearth. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z He heard her cleaning out the stove and saw her go out back to empty the ashes. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z All the laws and beliefs of Earth were burnt into small hot ashes which soon would be carried off in a wind. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z “And Capricorn fell down on his face, and his black heart stopped beating, and all those who had gone burning and murdering with him disappeared—blown away like ashes in the wind.” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z A bolt of lightning crackled out of the sky and fried a Laistrygonian giant to ashes, and I knew Thalia must be doing her daughter of Zeus thing. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z Thus, one by one, I destroyed them all so that there were only ashes left to mark the village of Ghalas-at. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z From the embankment, they could see two piles of ash and large towers of smoke billowing in the wind. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z She sat on the heap of skins that he used for sleeping while he poked the ashes into a red glow and then added a thick piece of oak branch. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Trailer parks on miles of concrete, with window boxes covered in ash. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The villagers nearer to the remains of the house held buckets, and a few were patrolling near the ash, looking for embers that still needed extinguishing. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z Unlike metal plates, plasmas could be made easily with a bolt of electricity, according to Puthoff, and instead of having to pry the plates apart again, the plasma “ash” is discarded. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z There’s a fireplace at one end of the main room with a flashlight on the mantle; the inside is blackened with ash and the charred remnants of logs, as if just used. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z Under the snow lay grey ash and cinders, and here and there a blackened beam or a pile of bones adorned with scrhps of skin and hair. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z A short time later they were rescued by the flour Aurelianos, whose crosses of ash inspired a sacred respect, as if they were caste marks, stamps of invulnerability. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z The rest had been cremated in the heat and their ashes sucked up by the swirling wind and blown away. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z Meanwhile we butt our heads on cliffs of ice in a cold dusk full of ashes. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z “Should I abase myself? Rub ashes in my hair? Tear my clothes?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z It slipped, dogs first, straight into the cold ash at the edge of the fire circle. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z In fact, Nebraska’s huge ash deposits had been known about for a long time. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z When the fire had burned down to embers, the boys raided the pushcarts of the Jewish merchants and stole potatoes which they roasted in the ashes. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Hear Job, sitting in dust and ashes, his children dead, his substance gone, surrounded by false comforters: ‘Yea, though He slay me, yet will I trust Him.’ Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z “Tell me your story,” he repeated, crushing a flake of ash on the neatly arranged desk with his index finger, flicking it into the trash can. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z The fairies released one another, and the ash dissipated. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Pietro Crespi returned on Sunday midnight to sweep up the ashes of the party, after having worn out five horses on the road in an attempt to be in time for his wedding. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z The woman then raised the pistol, aiming with a firm wrist at the cross of ashes, and she held the trigger with a determination against which there was no appeal. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z I touch The ash, and the snake crumbles And won’t bite. Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Through the clouds of smoke he heard the man clanging the shovel round inside of the ash bin. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z “Hmm,” she murmured with little interest as she blew some tobacco ash from her pipe. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z The night of the extermination two men had gone to get him at his house and had shot at him with their revolvers but they had missed the cross of ashes. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z One hit the doorpost of the hall, another stuck in the door’s thick timbering, still others rang on the stone wall, shivering hafts of ash. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z All of his plans, all of his dreams, disappeared in that scattered pile of ash. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z Tomorrow its ashes will be scattered to the four winds. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z The disappointment he felt in his daughters sifted down on them like ash, dulling their buttery complexions and choking the lilt out of what should have been girlish voices. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z Ralph stood among the ashes of the signal fire, his hands full of meat, saying nothing. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z They were small ashes, which at some time had been cut down and had sprouted up again into a forest of poles, none of them thicker than one’s wrist. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Mr. Nancy stubbed out his cigarillo, then he flicked an imaginary speck of ash off his yellow gloves. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z He even rubbed ashes and sweet cedar boughs over himself to mask any human smell. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z In these ash heaps lay a lost and delightful world, the world of my childhood, the world of sweet and irresponsible days at Qunu and Mqhekezweni. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Afterward they could be discarded, but the potion must be thickened with ash and allowed to crystallize. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z She’d burned the tip of a stick in the fire and was using it to draw ash figures on the floor, images of the monsters we’d seen. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z “Well, it looks like we’ll have no choice but to rise from the ashes, Firebirds.” Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z When I reached the area, all that remained were two pyramids of ashes by a large mimosa tree. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Slender and sinuous, olive green, mahogany red, scarlet, and ash, they were weighted with broad, gleaming leaves and velvet berries and shaded the beach stones and mud flats. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z “It is the ash of a cord that has been thrown into the fire and burned. Cord just like that ball of nettle twine in the corner.” Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z With the ash so thick inside and out, I had few thoughts to spare for that fool. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z She flicked the ashes of her cigarette into my pencil holder. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z What was the point in making things, if they only came to ashes? Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z On the floor was a tin washbowl full of ashes and a few pictures disappearing into flames. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z But we were able to bring his ashes to the Ganges and so we know his spirit is at rest. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z He tells of the history of Panem, the country that rose up out of the ashes of a place that was once called North America. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z In fact, it’s doing exactly the opposite; when I leave their house I run home, can’t wait to strip my clothes off and get into the shower and w ash the baby smell off me. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Whatever demonic force moved Othor had been driven out by the flames; the twisted thing they had found in the ashes had been no more than cooked meat and charred bone. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z They flared up briefly, caught the paper, and burned it to ashes before Nhamo even got close. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 There’s Dad emerging from the ocean like a sun god and morphing into a body made of ashes. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z An old priest, palsied, walking with a cane of ash. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z The road was exposed to the wind from the sea and it was blown free of ash save for patches here and there. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z Bacchus tapped the giant on the nose, and Ephialtes crumbled to ashes. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z I scoot the tin can from the ashes. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z He dumped the ashes from his palm into a heavy green glass ashtray piled high with the crumpled remnants of previous cigarettes. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z Gars in the street caked with ash, everything covered with ash and dust. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z 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 Ashes, Bran thought, old and faint, but ashes. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z We all tiptoed inside to our beds, leaving the ashes perfect behind us like newly fallen snow. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z When it was a bit lighter he rose and walked out and cut a perimeter about their siwash camp looking for sign but other than their own faint track through the ash he saw nothing. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z The ash tree Yggdrasil is a mighty ash tree, the most perfect and beautiful of all trees: also the largest. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z He’s looking at ashes, gray coals, and blackened soot and bark. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z She hoped Jojo had remembered to bring in firewood; the logs had just about faded to ash when she’d tiptoed outside. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z By the end of the second session, my students had produced nothing but ashes. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Wang Lung shook the ash from his pipe and pushed the fresh tobacco in slowly with his thumb. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z I grabbed a handful of snow from outside the door and carefully mixed in ashes from the barrel. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z She sent Mary Alice to the pump for pail after pail of water, and she sent me to the house for coal scuttles full of wood ash from the kitchen stove. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z She was dropping cigar ash all over her lap, and I hoped she wasn't going to catch on fire before she'd told me how to recognise a witch. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z But when Stella finally got most of the ash and smoke off and fell into bed, her sleep was troubled. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z She felt as if she were made of ashes. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z He tossed the skull back into the mouth of the tree, where it landed with a puff of fine ash. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z A giant column of smoke and ash rose to a height of sixty thousand feet in less than ten minutes. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z They moved slowly, laughed slowly, but flicked the ashes from their cigarettes too quickly too often, and exposed themselves, to those who were interested, as novices to the habit. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z Altogether the city received just five-eighths of an inch of ash after the eruption of Mount St. Helens. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z A few hours later, radioactive ash fell on Rongalap like snow. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z At daybreak I stepped outside to look at the brazier; nothing was left but ashes, now grey and powdery. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z And the ashes blew towards us with the salt wind from the sea. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z I glared at Matilde across the ashes, my skin prickling with rage. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “Days, weeks afterward, there were ashes, paper bits from wallets, purses, floating into the school yard.” Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z She put the hardwood ashes in a little cloth bag. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z The volcano grew up seven to ten million years ago, producing fierce eruptions and explosions of ash, which repeatedly wiped out the forests that grew on its slopes, until it attained a tremendous height. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z For you are but ash to their fire. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z He examined the heater on his smoke, packing it in and trimming the ashes by dragging it on a rock by his feet. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z Every buffalo-hide lodge was burning or had already been turned into a pile of ashes. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z It is embedded with stone logs, the remains of a tropical rain forest that was swept up in the eruption and buried in ash and mud. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z On the edge of her space, near the ashes, a pile of saplings stripped of their branches was arranged, as if someone had been preparing to help her rebuild. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Odin's eye remains in Mimir’s well, preserved by the waters that feed the world ash, seeing nothing, seeing everything. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z If it rained or snowed or a bitter wind blew he led her in and he let her sit among the warm ashes that dropped from the kitchen stove. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z “Those ashes were in the house for days, just sitting there,” Margie recalled. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z The blaze goes out of control, spreading to buildings onshore and thence to the Library, where it reduces a large number of scrolls to ashes. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z On a small table by the window, an unmarked bottle of amber liquid sparkled next to a chipped bowl with ashes. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z Now he pokes at the ashes with a stick, shaking his head. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Open country with the ash blowing over the road. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z Buried underground or burned into ash, they couldn’t do anything but haunt the memories of the people who had loved them. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z It had, instead, a domestic smell—oil, ashes—that led him on. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z She watched until the coals had turned to ashes. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z From his hand the pipe dangled and then fell, spilling sparks of red ash so that for a moment the earth floor glowed like a deep, star-filled sky. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z I remembered Horace’s prophetic dream of ash clouds and scorched earth, and I realized what he’d been seeing. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z The kinds of wood — ash, heartwood, walnut, or curly maple—each had been brought when he asked. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Returning to the ashes, Cole noticed faint smoke curling up from one mound. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z Her fire was near burned down to ash. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z For instance, it was Toby who suggested that they march around the altar, beating their chests and sprinkling their heads with ashes and wailing. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z If you burned this book now, its matter would be changed to ash and smoke, but the net amount of stuff in the universe would be the same. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z "Come, my blood. The stallions call, this place is ashes. It is time to ride." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The ash gives the soil a quick shot of nutrients, giving the crop a chance. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z They would stay there until next Ash Wednesday, when we would take the fronds to church, to have them burned for ash. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z On the ground, huddling beneath ponchos blocking out ash, thin streaks of light, we hold on to each other and breathe. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z Flames and hot ashes exploded into the dark. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z Several months later a geologist named Bill Bonnichsen from the Idaho Geological Survey got in touch and told him that the ash matched a volcanic deposit from a place called Bruneau-Jarbidge in southwest Idaho. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z When he woke he was lying shivering in the sand and the fire had died almost to ash and it was black night. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z The house fell in red coals and black ash. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z He’d wave the toy furiously and then there’d be an awful, blinding, roaring flash that shook the room and deposited a fine ash all over us and the floor. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z Uncle shared his food with Salva—a piece of sugar cane to suck on right away, then fish that they cooked over a fire and yams roasted in the ashes. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z “Right. But out of its own ashes. That’s the part my mom cared about.” Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z He shows us how to keep the slow match burning by blowing the ash off of it every few minutes, and how to use it to ignite the gunpowder. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z Ever since she had found the ashes of her books, the mere sight of a matchstick had caused her to panic. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z I heard the stove clang and I knew she was kindling last night’s ashes. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “Out the window. Out the window,” Mr. McArdle said sarcastically, flicking his ashes. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z She saw his heart burning through his chest, and in an instant he was gone, consumed like a moth by a candle, turned to ash. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Gray stomped around, kicking their ashes apart as they tried to re-form. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z “She means that the fay will die. And she means that the Wood itself will perish. The trees will fall; the rivers will dry up; the earth will become nothing but ash.” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Alex tried to decide which was better: dead body ash or volcanic ash. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z Whatever we had for dessert, it was ashes in my mouth. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Richard had told them that a country born from the ashes of injustice would limit its practice of injustice. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z “Oyez! Oyez! Witness the cleansing of the books of the Jews! Their error will rise on the wind like ashes! Let them see their folly and give themselves over to the mercy of Christ!” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z Now not even a heap of bones: only a few ashes to show that once a man has lived. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z The Second’s laughter swirled around him like flakes of ash. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z He fired his rifle, and two toppling trees turned to ash. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Never shall I forget those moments that murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to ashes. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z He flicked his ashes into his palm and smiled. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z Then they set out along the blacktop in the gun-metal light, shuffling through the ash, each the other’s world entire. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z I recreate the same two-toned hair color with a deep scarlet and ash blond. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Dad could be wrong, and the great historians Carlyle and Macaulay and Trevelyan could be wrong, but from the ashes of their dispute I could construct a world to live in. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The laws of gravity were about to apply to a long ash that clung to the cigarette. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I held my breath as I watched the ash grow until it seemed ready to drop. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z When one iron cooled off, I’d set it back on the stove and pick up the hot one, running it over a piece of old flour sacking to clean off any ash. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Beatty knocked his pipe into the palm of his pink hand, studied the ashes as if they were a symbol to be diagnosed and searched for meaning. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z She was naked, covered with soot, her clothes turned to ash, her beautiful hair all crisped away . . . yet she was unhurt. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z “You better clean the ashes out of the furnace in the morning, Bigger.” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Most of the acreage was maple and beech, some pine, dogwoods, ash; and here and there a glorious hickory. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z For several minutes she had been holding her cigarette ashes in her cupped left hand. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z Its huge limbs spread out over the small birch, ash, box elder, and water oak as if it alone were their protector. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Once every Cyclops within fifty yards had been reduced to ashes, Frank landed in front of his troops and transformed into a human. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z The golden pommel was smooth and rounded, its color deliberately muted; ash leaves of pale gold entwined at the hilt, and a pattern of leaves covered the scabbard. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z Her fire was cold ashes, a blackened smudge. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Dear God, no. There were just these five. Still, we have to burn and bury them, just to be sure. I already cut the wood we’ll need: ash and rowan.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z What could he do to avoid bothering with the ashes? Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z A saffron Santa with votive ash on his forehead. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 Then the valley of ashes opened out on both sides of us, and I had a glimpse of Mrs. Wilson straining at the garage pump with panting vitality as we went by. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z A woman poured ashes into a mortar and pounded them as she called the names of Vatete's relatives who lived too far away to attend the funeral. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I remember 1 guy last year asked people to sign a petition about coal ash being dumped in rivers. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z “There was a hell of a lot of ashes in there, boy,” the man gasped. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Her knowledge of the Smoke had evaporated, the familiar streets reduced to an unrecognizable sprawl of ash and embers. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z The hearth was caked with cold black ash, the room unheated but for candles. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Some buildings were merely singed, but others were little more than ash and cinders. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Lord Ashton tapped more ash off his cigar. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z For one, it was radiation- poisoned ash; for the other, chemical dust. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The ash fell on the snow till it was all but black. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z Grey flames swirled around him - burning his sleeves, blistering his face, turning his eyebrows to ashes. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z I turned and jumped back as the top of the platform toppled into the ashes beneath. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Rounding the path past a row of small cotts, she approached her own location and came upon the black heap of ashes that had been her home. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I didn’t have the heart to tell her it was the ashes of the people who had come before us. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z She should weep, she knew, yet her eyes were dry as ash. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Mom had been chain-smoking all morning, puffing and ashing with violent flicks. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z Besides, even an old ladle with a broken handle might be used later for scooping ashes from the fire or digging up cattail roots on a fetch. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z In the village of Ghalas-at we made new fires every night, but now I made one fire which I covered with ashes when I went to bed. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z Working on a perfectly straight I beam more than sixty feet long, he constructed a delicate framework of spruce and northern ash. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z “The request of Mrs. Ferris for the ashes was refused,” the undertaker said, “because the dead man left closer relatives.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Their faces were plastered white with ash and smeared with blood. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z An ancient green-plush sofa lolled alone in the center, like yet another mossy fallen log, facing a soot- streaked fireplace still deep in last winter’s ashes. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z The new snow lay in skifts all through the woods, along the limbs and cupped in the leaves, all of it already gray with ash. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z My skin itches with the ashes of the dead. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z We’re filthy, spitting out ash, wiping it from our eyes, noses. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z But with the ashes on the floor, Daniel caught them red-handed. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The surface beneath my feet hardens, and under the carpet of ash, I feel the paving stones of the square. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z When the soldiers arrived at dawn to arrest the master, his business papers were all ash and the crate of “cheese” was long gone. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Chickens and rabbits scampered underfoot, dust and ashes coiled in rampant whirlwinds. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z He visualized each piece of his own skull, fingering each curve, each hollow, testing its thickness for a final thin membrane worn thin by time and the witchery of dead ash and mushroomed bullets. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z The ashes of the late world carried on the bleak and temporal winds to and fro in the void. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z The littlest of the kingdoms was a steaming volcanic island that smelled of sulfur and ash. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z And vie commit her body to the ground, Earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Jacob stared at the sky, fading from royal blue to indigo above the black buds of an ash. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z After the cremation the scattering of Hari’s ashes over the Ganges would set his soul free by returning his body to fire, water, and earth. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z They stood there in complete silence, side by side, while the incense smouldered into ashes; and then because the sun was sinking, Wang Lung shouldered the box and they went home. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z He tries to get a better look at the dark ash on his suit but it is already fading away. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Women’s faces were flaked with mud and ash, camouflage from the Russians they’d applied while trekking through the woods. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z I had cut down a small ash tree and was chopping it into lengths of about eighteen inches each. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Tiller poked at the damp wood and ashes. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z They’d built a fire there and charred billets of wood lay stuck in the melted tar together with ash and bones. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z Nothing will remain of the armies of the living and of the dead, of the dreams of the gods and the bravery of their warriors, nothing but ash. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z A terrible nightmare follows, where I’m lying at the bottom of a deep grave, and every dead person I know by name comes by and throws a shovel full of ashes on me. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z The world was scorched and harrowed as far as they could see, a sea of ash and char from the flat planes of the fields up to the hills and mountains. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Light shines on old man soldering bottom of ash can. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Felicia said his body turned to gray ash, and then the wind blew him north, just as he’d wished. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z He frowned and shook the ashes from his cigar. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z “So listen carefully ... if you really want to destroy my house, Joseph, I guess this will be your last chance. Go ahead. Burn everything down to the ground till there’s nothing left but ash.” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z Minerva made her hands into shallow cups and pulled the air over her head and face, making prayers out of ashes and smoke. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z Choking from the ash and soot, he burst into the garage. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Would they find a heap of ashes waiting for them at the farmhouse? Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z The buildings, eight or ten of them, are charcoal and ash and there ain’t a whisper of Noise nowhere. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z “Most of them were ash. The rest were looted, I’m afraid.” A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z The cookstove is cold, and the fireplace has a heap of ash, but no embers. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z The trophy was filled with some kind of grey dust that looked like ashes from the fireplace. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z A small lock of hair falls out of the urn after most of the ashes are gone. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The wind picked up, and Alex could taste salt breeze intermixed with the familiar ash. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z I shook my hand, scattering most of the ashes away, then thrust the handful of black coals at her. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z It sucks you inside out and places you in a space where touch and taste and sound and sight all turn to ash. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z I am already disturbed by the ash falling from the blue distance down on these streets. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z The cabins and the Big House burned to ashes. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z After the dishes were cleared and washed and Papa was filling the tin pail with ashes, Caleb spoke up. Sarah, Plain and Tall 1985-04-25T00:00:00Z “There’s not enough heat upstairs. You’d better clean those ashes out and make a better fire.” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Only when the ghostly figures got closer did Alex realize these were just regular people, their clothes and hair and faces coated in gray dust and ash. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z While everything burned to flat black ash, we wouldn’t be sad because we’d be in this new place. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z The house and barn were gone, and smoking piles of ash and charred wood were all that remained. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z There are many in Ireland, where they are usually hawthorns or the occasional ash tree. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z She fell in and out of the same dream she always had: ashes falling over the land, settling into the crevices between tree roots, dusting over every unfurled bud, smothering each hint of life. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z That is how the worlds will end, in ash and flood, in darkness and in ice. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z With one flap of its wings, three trees turned to smoking ash. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z The ash trees creaked and the stream sang. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z He made my toast while his cigarette dangled out of the corner of his mouth, collecting a long ash that finally fell on the floor. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Our darkest fears were confirmed the next day when Father went to empty the stove and discovered the clip, used to fasten it to a pocket, among the ashes. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z With each breath, little snowflakes of floating ash choked them. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z “I do not think that the ashes of a burned cord are going to tell us where Loki is.” Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z The next day, when the ashes have cooled, you rake the ashes. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z There was nothing left but a jumble of broken stone and glass and ash. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Sweeping stray ashes from the hearth, beating at the stones, she was so rough that shards of corn husk broke from the broom’s bottom. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Like much of the village, it was coated in ash. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z There were tall trees here and there on either side, oak and sycamore and ash and occasionally a sweet chestnut. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z “Say, you! Get some of those ashes out of there!” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z The clippers buzzed and buzzed, and hair fell from Needles's head like ash. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z I haven't been accepted anywhere, and I feel like my soul has been turned to ash. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z The next night I would remove the ashes and blow on the embers. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z Then, before putting the ashtray back where it belonged, he used the under side of his forearm to wipe off the filmy wake of ashes from the glass top of the table. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z It is so large that the roots of the ash are in three worlds, and it is fed by three wells. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z Then, whoosh, a blast of wind exploded out of the mountain, a white-hot mix of ash and gas and shards of rock. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z The past would not exist for either of us, we were starting afresh, he and I. The past had blown away like the ashes in the waste-paper basket. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z The colour of cinders and ash about them, and the continual smell of burning from their pipes. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z The stuff can heal demigods, but it can also burn us to ashes if we eat too much. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z Like snow, black and gray ash cloaks us. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z “I know who Etienne is,” said the man as he smoothed his hair across his head and flicked his ashes toward Hugo. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z The house stood alone in a city of rubble and ashes. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps ashes had once fallen on a plain-glazed vase in the kiln and resulted in patches of the clear celadon color. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z It is made of dust; it is made of ashes. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Her torn dress and undergarments, her shoes and her little red socks were thrown on an ash heap. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Troy was a heap of ashes by now. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Finally the boy just went over to the edge of the road and sat in the ashes. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z Following a stone wall in the dark, wrapped in his blanket, kneeling in the ashes like a penitent. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z Kate has forgotten about her cigarette, and the ash dangles, as long as a fingernail. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Grey, feathery ashes scurried hither and thither at his breath but no spark shone among them The twins watched anxiously and Piggy sat expressionless behind the luminous wall of his myopia. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z Smoke and drifting ash still lingered in the air about the pit as Jon trotted back to the gate. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Black ash will fall from the sky like snow. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z Everything was cloaked in gray: oyster gray, charcoal gray, pewter gray, mold gray, storm gray, and ash. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Ashes of the life Granddad shared with Gran, ashes of the maple from which the tire swing flew, ashes of the old Victorian house with the porch and the hammock. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z I smelled of paint thinner and was covered in dust the color of ash, but he didn’t know that. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z She dissolved the ash in a basin of cold water, stirring with a force that made the water splatter on her legs. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z One shadow was dark as ash, with the terrible face of a hound. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Without raising his body, he reached out a nude, inflamed-pink, right arm and flicked his ashes in the general direction of the night table. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z “But maybe by then they’ll have figured out a way of clearing the ash from the sky. The scientists must be working on that.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z The boy was standing in the center of a clearing, his black curls streaked with ash. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z They watched the trains and smelled the ashes, ignoring tragedy. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z And now there they lay, tiny, oblong pieces of white bone, cushioned in grey ashes. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z They cast one more glance at the ashes of Brahmasura as they walked to the door. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z But there were only black smudges of paper left—and ashes everywhere. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z “So this place,” I said, pointing to Horace’s ash painting on the wall. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z ‘In 79 C.E., Vesuvius erupted and covered the town in ash.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z What snow fell soon turned to a filthy sludge under the feet of too many people and the soot and ashes from too many chimneys. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z The girl stumbles into the sunlight, where she dissolves into a cloud of ashes. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z And “Boori Ma’s mouth is full of ashes, but she is the victim of changing times” was the refrain of old Mr. Chatterjee. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z They tried to help her with applications of spiderwebs and balls of ash, but it was like trying to hold back a spring with one's hands. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z “They’re all destroyed now anyway. All that work, burned to ashes or melted. I should’ve known. Nothing in this city changes, and it never will.” A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z There were holy men whose faces were covered with ashes and who wore nothing at all. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z “I was over in the ash cans on the East Side, but those rich people don’t throw out as much garbage as they should.” The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z “It's fine work. Monday bum Millay, Wednesday Whitman, Friday Faulkner, burn ‘em to ashes, then bum the ashes. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z “Do you know how to get an ash dragon in DragonVale?” asks Will. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z The tribe must be sitting round the gutted pig, watching the fat ooze and burn among the ashes. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z Darkness will fill the air, like ashes, like mist. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z A flake of ash floated on the water’s surface. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z They fought amidst the grass and dirt and falling ashes beside the dead horse, until his brother rolled on his back in submission, tail tucked low. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Marco’s back slams against the ground as though he has been roughly pushed, leaving him coughing both from the impact and the cloud of black ash surrounding him. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Bits of burning wood slid down at her, and Dany was showered with ash and cinders. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z As soon as the fiery ashes hit the floor, the birds re-form and strike again. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z 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 We’d rolled down the windows, and maps and art paper and cigarette ashes were whipping around our heads. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z “Yife! I got a burning ash from my cigarette—there, it’s gone.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z He clawed up the ashes of the path with his long fleshless fingers. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z Particles of ash swirled loosely in their midst, but refused to coalesce. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Somewhere out of the past a voice whispered, “A long time to sail by ash breeze.” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z A body of ashes trapped in a vase forever. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z R’hllor spoke to his chosen ones through blessed fire, in a language of ash and cinder and twisting flame that only a god could truly grasp. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I wipe ash and grit from his face. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z Cloke leaned forward, his long, dark hair falling in his face, and knocked the ash off his cigarette. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z “That’s where the first cabin was, and that’s where I dragged myself to after trying to swim away from the island. The tide pushed me back to shore. I slept there in the hot ashes.” Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z But they didn’t notice the ashes, so they left their footprints all over the floor of the temple. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Crocodile Guts knocked the ashes out of his pipe and packed it again with tobacco. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “And every year if there are worthy initiates, the drüskelle gather at the sacred ash, where they may once more hear the Voice of God.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Flakes of ash drifted upward from a brazier, and Dany followed them with her eyes through the smoke hole above. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z But curiously no one had ever thought to wonder where all the ash came from. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z 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 Even the soil, once rich and brown, had turned brittle and ash gray. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Soon after, the swollen ocean will swallow the ashes as it washes across all the land, and everything living will be forgotten under the sunless sky. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z Its walls still stood, but its windows and roof were gone, and there was nothing inside but ashes and dollops of melted glass. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The whole sky smelled sour green, and stray pieces of ash flicked over my head. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Where all was burnt to ash before them no fires were to be had and the nights were long and dark and cold beyond anything they’d yet encountered. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z As they stood in line at the latrine, Aaron pointed to a tall smokestack on the other side of the camp and told Jack it was the crematorium, where corpses were incinerated, leaving only ashes. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z The closer I got, the more I could smell the sodden ashes and burnt dreams. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Next to her, still pluming with smoke, was a pile of the demon’s ashes. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Dispirited and battleworn, carrying their fallen leader, the maimed and wounded hobbled painfully along at the rear, the bitter ashes of vanquishment and defeat mingling with the dust from their stumbling vanguard. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z But before Elinor had had the ashes taken away, she had filled a jam jar with the fine gray dust, and it stood on the bedside table in her room. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Vials are filled with ash from the Mount St. Helen’s eruption, and they look like granulated potions, dark glittering magic. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The ash of fireworks perhaps, or grass I’d uprooted in my desperate struggles. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z It had something to do with soaking in mud and rubbing with ashes, but her rabbit skins smelled vile when she was finished. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z He would hock anything and his eyes were like ashes. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z “Today I’m not a person—I feel like a box full of cold ashes.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z That she gets paid big bucks from Juju to keep glasses clean, ash trays emptied, and food coming. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z The day of the locust was at hand, but from the ashes of humanity there arose no Phoenix. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z One hundred twenty-three dollars in legal tender was promptly reduced to ash and smoke. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Pop Pop wobbles in, both hands planted on his cane, wheezing like he done sucked on a pile of ashes. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z As the beast’s shadow descended over me, I awoke with my heart slamming against my rib cage and my mouth as dry as ashes. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Seconds later, Professor Lupin was clambering out of the fireplace, brushing ash off his shabby robes. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z But in the Red Waste, all her joy had turned to ashes. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The silky spills of ash against the curbing. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z She rinsed the cooking pots but used ash and sand to get the wooden plates clean. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z When they stopped to sleep, she dreamed of ashes, drifts upon drifts of them, covering the Wood in a stale scent of burning. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z In other versions the dead bird bursts into flames, and the new one arises from the ashes, but the worm story is very old, told no doubt by an early biologist. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Cord on cord of oak and ash were stacked to make tall, crooked walls between the trunks of trees. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z All of it was ashes now: the smooth wood, the soft edges, the memory of his hands. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z But the sun was blotted out by the ash and smoke. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z His ashes invariably fell into the tub water, either straightway or down one of the letter pages. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z A great roar of smoke and ash billowing from a volcano. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z A few ashes still cling to the sides. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Later when the ashes grew cold he would move to the top of the radiator, and then, sometime in the middle of the night, he would steal upstairs and curl up beside the old dog. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Even my demigod eyes couldn’t make out its exact form through the ash and fire, but it was vaguely humanoid and so huge it could’ve used the Chrysler Building as a baseball bat. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z All he smelled was ash and upturned earth. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z The plantings in the gardens still retained their linearity and rectitude of bloom; but a chicken-house was mere ash, and the windows of the mansion were broken. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z We took Mrs. Patterson’s ashes out to an island in Maine and Mr. P emptied the urn into the bay. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z Ralph continued to blow till his ears were singing with the effort, but then the first breeze of dawn took the job off his hands and blinded him with ashes. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z Cinders and bits of ash swirl in the air. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z The ash trees lining the lonely one-lane back road were just coming into their lovely young skin, but in the afternoon light their shadows couldn’t have been longer. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z And yet — when they had gone, the shadows closed on men again, and their hearts went cold, and the valour of Gondor withered into ash. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z It is all turning to ashes before our eyes. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z 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 Early next day Ma put the shelled corn and the bag of ashes into the big iron kettle. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Fiery ashes out of the pine-chip flares they tossed, and piled on fuel for light and heat. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Mom poured the ashes into the toilet and flushed them away. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Carmen suggested we scatter her ashes, and I agreed it was a good idea. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z For a horrible moment, he wondered if it contained his mother’s ashes, but that was impossible. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z A misted half-moon had risen to the height of its arc by the time Tree-ear had swept the kiln entrance clear of ashes. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z Franny quickly tipped her cigarette ash, then brought the ashtray an inch closer to her side of the table. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z Great patches of grasses around them were scorched to ash. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Life would turn to ashes—at least for me; rather be dead and join the dead! The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “You’re safe. You said spreading your parents’ and sister’s ashes didn’t do much for you. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z The ash had turned the sparkling water to thick gray sludge that stank of sulfur. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z I was nothing but ashes now, but I felt myself to be stronger than this Almighty to whom my life had been bound for so long. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z A small ash was smothered by its huge bulk. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z She looked like Cinderella in reverse, stepped out from her life at the ball for a day of misery among the ashes. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z He had to do something about those ashes, and quickly. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Scattered almost randomly around the top of the mounds are burned, oxidized chunks of rock—hearth stones—in drifts of fish bones and ash. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z From the ashes in the stove there must have been a great deal of it. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z I picked it up, wishing with all my strength that a thunderbolt would strike me dead to ashes on the spot. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z Mam turns toward the dead ashes in the fire and sucks at the last bit of goodness in the Woodbine butt caught between the brown thumb and the burnt middle finger. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Baba's ashes make it to Bangladesh without any hassle. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Silence settled over the glade like fine ash after a scorching fire. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z In the dark column of ashes, I thought I could almost see a face—a she-demon with red eyes, laughing at me. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z Nevertheless, this evening, as he came out from among the ash trees to talk to Captain Chervil, the General was feeling seriously concerned about several things. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z He knelt in the dry leaves and ash with the blanket wrapped about his shoulders and after a while the coughing began to subside. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z The drunkard was an ash tree, twisted sideways by centimes of wind. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “When the ashes have cooled, we’ll have to bury them,” she said. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z We know you would come if you could, the ashes whispered. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z For a while he had only his incense burner, which was made of an old metal ash tray. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Looming over the chasm, she was a churning figure of ash and smoke, as big as the Athena Parthenos statue, but very much alive. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z But today, supposing that it could be somehow resurrected from its ashes, the photograph might not even be evidence. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z If you wanted to grow crops again, you would have to find some place to put all the ash. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z I saw an image of Hestia flickering in the ashes, frowning at Kronos with disapproval. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z All of them out there in the hot sun that day were just dumb animals cursed with the mark of ash on their brow. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z A small stream of ash spilled onto a thicket of dead mesquite. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z A series of hard frosts had killed the crops they’d planted afterward, leaving only mud and ash and wilted, rotting stalks. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Just to get the can of apple wood out of the ashes. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z Her temples were neglected; her altars foul with cold ashes; her favorite towns deserted and falling in ruins. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z They stood back by the wagon and watched the cows walk up to the cactus cautiously, sneezing at the smoldering ashes. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Malachy whispers that Michael shouldn’t get the ashes because he won’t be making his First Communion till May and it would be a sin. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z White ash and charred cinders, with bits of blackened metal and chips of bone protruding from the ruin. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z It was halfway to ash when two harsh white headlights lit the night and the car pulled up and stopped beside them. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z There was a fire circle already in place, filled with black ashes. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z Lifting one arm, he found it covered with black ash. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z Clouds of smoke unfurled beneath the wide green rims as the leaves darkened and withered in the flames, their words becoming faint distorted lines before they turned to ash. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Encased in black down to her knuckles, with her heart turned to ash, she scarcely knew anything about the war. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z “So this is volcanic ash. How long before it leaves?” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z Lee took up the pipe and picked out the ash with a little brass pin and filled the bowl again. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z It was not ashes even, it was feathery dust....I went and washed my hands in the basin. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Waking in the cold dawn it all turned to ash instantly. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z He took a deep breath, scattered the powder into the flames, and stepped forward; the fire felt like a warm breeze; he opened his mouth and immediately swallowed a lot of hot ash. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z Slept but a sea apart on another beach among the bitter ashes of the world or stood in their rags lost to the same indifferent sun. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z Gran ended up boycotting the ash scattering, and if she wasn’t going, there was no reason for the rest of us to. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z She pushed the door open, peeked in, and saw that the ashes of his fire were still hot; wisps of smoke drifted from the chimney and disappeared with the wind into the gray sky. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z She was shaping her cigarette ash on the side of the fresh ashtray the waiter had brought, her mouth not quite closed. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z He clicked a button and it expanded into a miniature bronze TV On the screen was news footage of Mount St. Helens, a huge plume of fire and ash trading into the sky. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z Even Arion had turned from caramel brown to a dark shade of ash. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z He thought about it for a few moments and said, “Well, I don’t really care. Maybe you’re right, maybe those were not the ashes of your notebook, but you won’t ever find out, will you?” The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z They came shuffling through the ash casting their hooded heads from side to side. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z Papa, wearing a long, gray robe like the rest of the oblates, helped distribute ash every year. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z He will pluck it from the ashes like a warm egg. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z The ash from her cigarette looked ready to drop until she switched all the bags to one hand and flicked the butt behind her, into the parking lot. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z But if you stay in the burning building and die and nobody ever identifies your ashes, the official verdict will be that you probably tried to get out. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Nelson raked a pan of cold ashes out of the stove, and together we strewed them all around the hard-pan-dirt yard outside the chicken house. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The fire in the center of the grove was a small sad thing, ashes and embers and a few broken branches burning slow and smoky. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z A wave of heated air trembled above the ashes but without a trace of smoke. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z Inej saw that someone had made a low fire, and the sticky remnants of a block of melted paraffin were visible in its ashes. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z The ash will become fuel, and the Sun will be triggered into a second round of fusion reactions. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z She watched it crumble to ash and wondered if she was crazy. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z She pulls her chair over to the fireplace.We all eat our bread and egg and watch her cry till she says, What are ye gawkin’ at? and turns away to look into the ashes. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z The men set their cups down and ran to the pile of ashes. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z As the ring burned smaller we suddenly caught sight of its other side, the red-orange tongues and black ash closing in. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z After the eruption of Vesuvius, volcanic ash had buried the city and hardened to rock around dying Pompeians. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Yet, through layers of smoke, ash, I see the great wildfire. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z Later, when the sprouts have come up and are strong, they are taken from these beds of ash and transplanted, each to its own mound. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Back in the kitchen she sets out some olives and some goat cheese coated with ash. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z 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 Shae asked, and outside Con and Pol were standing, dazed, near the ashes of the fire. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z She perched in the top of the ash, waiting for the earth to warm and the wind to rise and carry her on her way. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z I fill and empty it, again and again, until all traces of ash and hair are gone. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z She poked holes in a calabash and padded it with dry grass to make a sieve, because unfiltered mutsangidza ashes were slightly poisonous. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z He saw a pile of scattered ashes, nothing else. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z The warm ash stuck to the raw scrapes on Cole’s chest and legs. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z The cigar ashes fell into the lap of his pants, but he did not seem to mind or notice, and Kabuo felt sorry for him. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z He heard the last shifting of the sticks in the fire as it died and turned to ash. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z But when I thought of the urn filled with Abuela’s ashes and Aunt Tuti crying and my mom’s stone face and everyone else sniffling and rubbing their eyes, I decided not to. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z His aunt, Uma Maima, presides in the kitchen all morning, harassing the servants as they squat by the drain scouring the dirty dishes with ash, or pound heaps of spices on slabs that resemble tombstones. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z He lifts his hands, covered with sticky dirt, soot, and ash. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z “Can you get your mind off of heaven and back on the Upper West Side? Look up and see the ashes.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z He fished out a wad of paper that contained more black ash, which he began mixing with the other potion. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z She extended a contorted hand, and another fairy turned to ash and disintegrated in a gray cloud. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z I heard the nervous sound of someone mashing out a cigarette in a glass ash tray. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z I too could see the ash on the floor beside the chair. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z It felt like she was coated in their ashes, in the stink of burning flesh. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Very soon they came upon traces of blood which the rain had not yet washed away, and these they followed toward the ash tree in the hedge to the west of the warren. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Ray tapped the ash on the step. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z “Had to find small vessels for your ashes,” she said, grinning. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z He jogged over and found it next to the pile of ash. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z Who knows what death camp ashes blew daily through the head of Mrs. Finestein, in those years right after the war? Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z She was smoking a cigarette and flicking the ashes on the rug. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z Then he stuffs his hand deep in the wet ash. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z The batons were made of hardwood, Malaver explained— usually, oak or ash. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Both of them burned to ash in the pit in Atur. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z He threw them in a heap on the old ash pile and went back for more and more. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z He saw her lugging a can of ashes out to the curb and his heart turned over with pity. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The grass is uneven at the place where they buried Gram’s ashes. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z Frost painted the ground the color of a gravestone, ashes trapped in ice. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Tyrion studied her face for a moment, before he spied fishbones in the ashes. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z On the board she placed olives and radishes and several eggs which she had roasted in the ashes. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Even in the Red Keep, the air tasted of ashes. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Under the lofty doorway, on the door sill of wide smooth ash, they held this rough exchange. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z I cracked some walnuts, got down the acorn flour I had pounded, with a bit of ash to remove the bite, reached out the door for a little snow, and stirred up some acorn pancakes. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z But he is distracted; he smokes so much it is as if he is turning himself into ash. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z The man called Toorman reached out his foot and kicked an oblong bone from the ashes; it slid a few inches over the concrete floor. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z “And you asking me for a story, whateffer, with his reverence here among the ashes!” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z And so we walked, hour upon hour, over rollercoaster hills, along knife-edge ridges and over grassy balds, through depthless ranks of oak, ash, chinkapin, and pine. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z I have a funeral where my ashes are scattered at the tiny beach. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z Mr. Dubonnet tapped the rocket casing, and lumps of unburned propellant and ash dropped out. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Without looking for the ashtray, she flicked her ash. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z He’d scoop up ash from the crater and gather samples of the gas seeping out. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z And with the Council’s man watching, the campers made their hands into shallow cups and pulled the air over their heads and faces, making prayers out of ashes and smoke. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z His flame lit the pit, pale gold shot through with red and orange, and the stale air exploded in a cloud of hot ash and sulfur as the white wings beat and beat again. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z With his left hand, the gray-haired man shaped the ash of his cigarette on the rim of the ashtray. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z While sifting the accumulated ash through a fly screen, he found human teeth and a fragment of jaw. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Expressionless, motionless, he sat until there was nothing left but grey ash and dully glowing coals. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z "You know, ashes scattered to the winds, so the one who wins the windfall gets— Oh, never mind." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z “But my friend doesn’t believe volcanoes are erupting and throwing ash into our sky. Have you heard anything about that?” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z The ash tasted disgusting, like dirt mixed with chalk. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z The dormouse felt the good food turn to ashes in his mouth at the thought of his betrayal of fellow mice, but there was no alternative if he wanted to save his family. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Like the victims of Pompeii, arrested in ice rather than ash. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z The coals under the ashes on the dark hearth she fanned to life until a cheerful fire was burning. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Her brother, Halsey, on the other hand, had shuffled off into the shadows and was sobbing as the sparkling ashes of his life’s work swirled around him. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z That secret burned to ashes as the designer perfume smoke drifted into the sky. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z "I felt the hot wind go through my clothes, like hell. There were gray ashes everywhere, sticking to my sweat." What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The goats were milling behind the ash pile that had been the house, bleating every now and then, like they were confused. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z They went to the river and caught the carp that swam there, and brought the fish back and cooked it in the fires of Ultima’s ashes. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z He said faintly, as if his mouth was full of grey ash. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z And his hand brushed something that turned the breath in his lungs to ash. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z And then, suddenly, they were in an ash blizzard. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z Now, he was coated top to bottom with ash and soot; his hair, his face—even his eyelashes were coated in a fine gray powder. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z Then the skeleton decapitated the other two monster carcasses and kicked all the ashes to disperse them. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z “Your biggest trouble will be taking out the ashes and sweeping. And keep track of how the coal runs; when it’s low, tell me or Mr. Dalton and we’ll order some more.” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z “Nothing. We just let it cook some more. When it cooked all the way through, we just scraped the ashes off the top.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z A blast of cold air blew through the hall, raising ashes from the fire trench and fanning its flames a little brighter. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z No ghosts yet, just ash trees and maples lined up in a mournful row. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z “Your house has been burned to the ground and they are building a public restroom on the ashes,” Regibald informed him. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z Done sweeping up ash in the fireplace, the servant girl stacks new wood into a pyramid with aromatic pine for kindling resting on top. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z He stopped by the ashes of the fire; and then went on. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z The filth and ash that had taken his mum was returning up the cliff face in tendrils of smoke, smoke that he couldn’t help but breathe in. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z I went to the altar with them to get ashes, shuffling along in the swaying line. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z I thought I’d come to terms with 12’s demise— heard of it, seen it from the air, and wandered through its ashes. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Scraps of ash floated through the air for weeks and found their way into everything, from the butter to the tea. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Nine years was a long time to sail by ash breeze. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Raymond limped from the ashes of the old schoolhouse and threw himself on top of a high pile of dirt. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z His head was a tumult of smells—phlox in bloom, ashes, cow dung, dog, cat, hens, stagnant water. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z It was like they had become ashes in my hand and I didn’t even realize that there was nothing left of them until I was pounding just my fist on the ground. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z “You mean we’re stuck with this ash for a few weeks. Great. All my shirts will end up gray. Father Mulrooney will love that.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z Amaranta was really making an effort to kindle in her heart the forgotten ashes of her youthful passion. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Within another minute, perhaps, it would have crumbled into ashes. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z “They’re full-fledged forest fires now. Pretty far east of us, but the Santa Ana winds are bringing the ash our way.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z They heaved and heaved until they were nothing more than ash and embers and smoke. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z They were gray as old ashes; faceless, eyeless. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z At night Pa banked it with ashes to keep the coals alive till morning. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z The bridge is still attached at their end and it slaps the facing cliff but it’s burning so fierce it won’t be no time at all before the whole thing is just ash. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z A young woman comes to put a new loaf of bread in the ashes and to stir the pot of stew. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z They were streaked with ash, for they had leaned too close to the sizzle of firecrackers. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z Black ash and dying embers were all that remained of the hearthfire. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z A textbook example occurred after the eruption in 1980 of Mount St. Helens, in southern Washington State, which inundated more than two hundred square miles with magma, volcanic ash, and mud. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z He took a long puff on his cigar and then tapped the ash clean. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z No. When I caught her laughing in the ashes the next morning, it was as if someone had given her a lovely surprise. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Since the news came from Horatio, food turns to ashes in my mouth. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z She uncovered an ember from the ashes and shredded little pieces of cornhusk over it and blew a little flame into the corn- husks so that a tiny light danced through the hut. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z Passing them in silence down that silent corridor through the drifting ash where they struggled forever in the road’s cold coagulate. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z Grit and burning ash grate in my teeth. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z When he talked, the cigar bobbled up and down, and little Willy wondered why the ash didn’t fall off the end of it. Stone Fox 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He was lying nearly naked, squarely in the ashes of the burned shelter. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z Once in a while, on the walk to the factory, they see bodies, mummies turned to ash, people scorched beyond recognition. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z The Newport dangled from his lip, the ash ready to fall onto his leg. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z By the time Dusty Muleman got there, it had burned to the waterline—seventy-three feet of smoldering ash and melted poker chips. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z Then he tapped the ash on the floor. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z 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 At first I thought it was snow and got excited, but Miss Whitlaw said the white stuff was ashes. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z The ash slats work very well, and are quite springy and comfortable. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z I recalled the bare trampled ground around the tree, the fireplace of rocks filled with ashes, the wood chips from the making of my bed, and resolved hereafter to keep my yard clean. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Nothing but hot, black, bare ground and delicate white filaments of ash, which stirred and crumbled under the trample of bare feet. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z On the morning after we spread the ashes, we woke before sunrise. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Sefia skirted the clearing while the boy stood beside the ashes, staring at the smoking mound as if he couldn’t quite understand what it was. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z I finished the posts for the bed and was looking around for a bigger ash to fell and make slats for the springs when I nearly jumped out of my shoes. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Looking like a beggar evangelist in his torn black suit, he shuffled to an ash pile that had spilled from the cracked-open house and bent to gather a palm full of soot. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z “Rebecca, honey, you know I still have those ashes?” he finally reminds her one day. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z It is a dull, drab, ash gray; it looks very old, even though it was built several years ago. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z “You mean, you never even made yourself a sandwich?” ashed Gregor. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z It was overcast, and in the grey light the town looked awful, soot and ash everywhere. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z All was ashes: How much more could he lose? Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z He tells the hospital that no religious services are necessary, is told that the ashes would be ready in a few days. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Aaron stood up, took his cigarette back, put it in the stand-up ash tray. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z Ninety minutes after the blast, ash began to rain down on Yakima, Washington, a community of fifty thousand people about eighty miles away. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Switching the ashtray over to his left hand, he went up to the night table and, with the edge of his right hand, swept his father’s cigarette stubs and ashes into the ashtray. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z The red taillights shrank into the distance; the chalky ring of ashes merged into the moonlight. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Mother knelt beside him, helping to steady the heavy ash can while Nelson cleaned the ashes out of the cookstove. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z I bathe the blood and ash from my face. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z "The card didn't say a word about ash in turbans. How did you know it would bring Master-ji luck?" Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z They came to the path and found that it was broad, paved with broken rubble and beaten ash. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z I spread it out flat and filled it with smaller pieces and bits of ash and whatever dirt I scooped up along with them. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z In the ash of a large stove they found a length of chain that the jeweler in Holmes’s pharmacy recognized as part of a watch chain Holmes had given Minnie as a gift. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z And Lazlo wasn’t a creature of anger or envy, but he felt the scorch of both—as though his veins were fuses and they were burning through him, leaving paths of ash in their wake. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z He had told me that if I ran out of tinder, I should burn cloth, and use the charred ashes. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Somewhere out there, standing alone in the bow, she scattered his ashes. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z It tastes of ash, but I don’t care. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z His white robe was utterly blackened with ash. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z A cake of ash in the roadway inches deep and hard going with the cart. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z They sat filtering the ash from the water and drinking until they could hold no more. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z When Momma saw him she invited him to stay for supper and told me to stick some sweet potatoes in the ashes to stretch the evening meal. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Sandy had joked about ashes scattered to the winds. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z He looked at the box in his lap, and the smudge of ash on his finger. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z On the floor around him was a blackened circle of ash. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z He flicked invisible ash off his candy cigarette. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z Or wear dirty ashes on their face all day long. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Already the platform and the three bundles were only white ashes. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Carmen followed my gaze and said, “I never understood why we display the ashes of the dead this way.” The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Now all fire and all flesh are but cold ashes. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z She wanted to cover us all in ash and fire and smoke. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z But as it is, I feel like the sky will light on fire any second now, and all the stars will crash into one another and burn away to ash. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z He must have been sitting there when I came in, for on a table that held a beautiful dwarf tree I saw smoke rising from a cigarette in a jade ash tray. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z He gave her a hand with the ash can. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z As he turned back toward the ashes, another bright object caught his attention. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z Garbage from the city and ash from a nearby crematorium floated past on the water’s surface. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z One midwinter’s day, when the sun was as distant and cold as a dull silver coin, they saw that the remains of the scraeling’s body had been removed from the ash tree. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z And the good memories made her feel nice for a little while, even if they did turn to ashes when she remembered he was gone. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z The clay for glaze was mixed in precise proportions with water and wood ash. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z The three of them sat on the car’s roof in order, as they had in all the family portraits that had once hung in the stairwell and were now reduced to ash. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z A cloud of ash billowed, blotting out fireman and child. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z “You won't believe what I'm going to tell you,” she said as she threw ashes over his excrement in order to pick it up with the shovel. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z I am sorry, however, that my own contribution to the field must rest upon the ashes of the work of this staff', and especially those who have done so much for me. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z The ashes floated off on the wind, carrying the message. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Plus, I have to smoke in here because it’s about the only room in the house without a ceiling fan to blow ashes everywhere. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z The boy took his truck from the pack and shaped roads in the ash with a stick. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z The ashes blew away on the wind, carrying the message. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z He shoveled ashes out of the huge stone fireplace and brought in wood for tomorrow’s fire. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z A boy comes toward them out of the smoky twilight, no older than Marie-Laure, streaked with ash, pushing a wheeled dining cart through the gravel. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z She pats Michael on the head and tells him he’s a lovely child and go up there and get your ashes. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z He patted his upper right arm, where the muscles were, with his left, scattering gray ash from the cigarette in his left hand. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z I kneel at the fire pit, hold my hand over the ashes still warm from breakfast. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z An ash staff that had seen service as a candle-snuffer proved to be ideal. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z The wind from the propeller kicked up so much ash that Jess could barely see. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z The silver-gray dust being thrown in the air by the wind was not snow, but ash. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z “And a skin of water too. Or I will burn this place down around your ears and dance among the ashes and your charred, sticky bones.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Kaede twisted back in her saddle and stared at the bare trees behind her, trunks the color of ash. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z The first log was a log of ash wood. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z “I just meant, I love it here. It’d be a grand place to have my ashes.” We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z She hurled a heavy glass ash tray at his head. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z ‘Now your fields can turn to ashes for all I care!’ A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The burst of flames in the bush died down and smouldered to ashes. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Capricorn’s men laughed as the books slowly crumpled into ashes. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z After they finished, they cleaned the house, emptied the coal ash, and washed everything they had used before leaving. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z ‘You are an ember in the ashes, Elias Veturius. You will spark and burn, ravage and destroy. You cannot change it. You cannot stop it.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z The glacier, dry and frigid, spread all over with funeral ashes. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z And ash, it is worth remembering, is not like a big snowfall that will melt in the spring. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z They will ride across the rainbow bridge, across Bifrost, and the rainbow will crumble as they ride, its once-bright colors becoming shades of charcoal and of ash. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z Denna kicked idly at a charred timber half buried in ashes near the remains of the barn. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The soft ash blowing in loose swirls over the blacktop. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z I reached into the fire pit, pushing my hand deep into the ashes until I found the unburned coals underneath. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The whole skeleton erupted into flames, leaving a little pile of ashes and a police badge. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z I spilled the fireplace ashes on the kitchen floor, then kicked over the bucket of wash water I brought in to clean up the mess. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z “The name of the wind came to me when I was arguing with Elxa Dal. When I shouted it his braziers exploded in a cloud of burning ash and cinder,” he chuckled. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The boy came out and the man pointed out the tracks in the ash where the truck had gone. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z He was seated on a flat rock, cleaning a wooden bowl, scrubbing the cracks in the rounded poplar with a rag dipped in fire ash. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z The ashes within me swirled and filled up my throat again. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z I want you to take my ashes out alone on the Frog, out to sea alone, and leave me there. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z The barn was nothing but a jumble of ash and planking. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Even the crescent moon birthmark on her forehead was a shadow of its former self—like a smudge of ashes on her brow. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z When the lightning stopped, the First and Second Cohorts were facing one surprised-looking giant and several hundred smoking piles of ash. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z In their hands were tall spears of ash, painted shields were slung at their backs, long swords were at their belts, their burnished shirts of mail hung down upon their knees. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z He could see the tracks of the truck through the wet ash, faint and washed out, but there. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z Everything was covered with a thick coating of gray ash. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z “We hope for better things; it will rise from the ashes.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Black water running from under the sodden drifts of ash. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z Now there was ash on his hands, and he wiped it onto his hairless chest, leaving soot-black streaks. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z Take me to where you can’t see land and scatter my ashes there on the water. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Bigger saw come into full view on the surface of the ashes several small pieces of white bone. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z George shivered and looked at the gun, and then he threw it from him, back up on the bank, near the pile of old ashes. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z Beyond that they came again to a belt of trees: tall oaks, for the most part, with here and there an elm tree or an ash. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z The only thing that moved in the streets was the blowing ash. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z Elm, ash, oak, and other trees dot the landscape in clumps. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z A girl as grey as ash, and even as I watched she crumbled and blew away. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z His dad dropped some ash on his shirt and cussed. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z Scalding ash storms across to engulf me again. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z The pots hung over the ashes, but they were empty. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z “We go from aspirant to novice drüskelle in the ceremony at the sacred ash.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z But Capricorn merely flicked some ash off his pants and smiled. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z She tapped her cigarette ash into her cupped left hand. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z The rest is dust, the rest is ash, it’s sorrow and it’s grief....But above all that, in spite of all that, binding us together...is hope. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z There were ashes of a fire on the big open hearth. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z Only a veil of smoke, floating embers and ashes, pressing down. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z Here the first man and woman were created from trees, the man from an ash, the woman from an elm. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z I lie in bed thinking about those days when the streets smelled like smoke and ash, when the stores where we’d just bought candy were closed and all boarded up. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z A dark, brittle ash flew in the air like dying moths. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z South of the city was where our dead were buried—but not my mother, whose ashes returned to the ocean that killed her, which was also the ocean she loved. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z In her palm sits a pile of sparkling black crystals, silt as fine as ash. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z A star is a phoenix, destined to rise for a time from its own ashes.' Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “And horses seldom turn their riders into charred bones and ashes.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z And if he sees such looks in Tokyo, what might he not see in the eyes of those who survived the leveling and the ash heap of Hiroshima? Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z The elms and chestnuts are long gone, the stately hemlocks and flowery dogwoods are going, and the red spruces, Fraser firs, mountain ashes, and sugar maples may be about to follow. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z The day Rose left I had learned how to write "family" in syllables using ash on a creamy curl of birch bark. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z When I got home, Mom had already cremated him and scattered his ashes on the ocean she loved. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z |
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