I went around and clumb over the back stile by the ash-hopper, and started for the kitchen. ❋ Unknown (2003)
When we got home the house was all dark and still; so we went on down to the hut by the ash-hopper for to examine it. ❋ Unknown (2003)
"Dem dat know too much sleep under de ash-hopper" (Uncle Remus) clearly intimates to all who know about the old-fashioned ash-hopper that such an individual lies. ❋ Thomas Washington Talley (N/A)
Billy now left me for her, and I followed the two to that part of our yard where the tall ash-hopper stood, which ever after was like a story book to me. ❋ Eliza Poor Donner Houghton (N/A)
She had watched her aunt make soap out of lye dripping from an ash-hopper. ❋ William MacLeod Raine (1912)
I continued fifteen months, during which time I preached at various private houses in the neighborhood, insomuch that one man remarked that I had preached at every man's house, except his "ash-hopper." ❋ Unknown (1910)
He stood up and strode as far in their direction as the ash-hopper under the apple-tree, and raised both his hands, as if he were frightening away a flock of crows. ❋ Unknown (1900)
There was a broken harrow, with rusty iron teeth, leaning against the house near the log steps; a top-heavy ash-hopper and a lye-stained trough stood under the spreading branches of a beechnut-tree beside a rotting cider-press and a huge pot for heating water during hog-killing or for boiling lye and grease for the making of soap. ❋ Unknown (1888)
The potato-house was a vast white billow, the ash-hopper was a marble vase, and the fodder-stack was a great conical ermine cap, belonging to some mountain giant who had lost it in the wind last night. ❋ Mary Noailles Murfree (1886)
The log house with its chimney of clay and sticks, the barn of ruder guise, the fodder-stack, the ash-hopper, and the rail fence were all imposed in high relief against the crimson west and the purpling ranges in the distance. ❋ Mary Noailles Murfree (1886)
There beside the little Colonel and the black mare he beheld a man seated upon an inverted half-bushel measure, peacefully lighting his pipe with a bunch of straws which he kindled at the lantern on the ash-hopper. ❋ Mary Noailles Murfree (1886)
She leaned her elbow against the ash-hopper, balancing the wooden bowl of corn-meal batter on its edge and trembling a little; the geese and chickens and turkeys crowded, a noisy rout, about her feet. ❋ Mary Noailles Murfree (1886)
A search was instituted — under the bed, in the bed, in the wash-tub and the soup-kettle; behind the wood-pile, and in the pea vines; up the chimney, and in the ash-hopper; but all in vain. ❋ Unknown (1883)
Dem w'at knows too much sleeps under de ash-hopper. ❋ Frederick Stuart (1881)
There was an ash-hopper by the fence, and an iron pot, for soft-soap-boiling, near it. ❋ Unknown (1873)
