Between the hills lay marsh and treacherous bogs edged with tamaracks, white cedars, and black-ash trees. ❋ William Kent Krueger (2008)
As a more complicated alternative the soda admits of being recovered on the lines of the old black-ash or Leblanc process, and the sulphur by the now well-established 'Chance' process, for which, of course, an addition of lime is necessary to the fully evaporated liquors previously to calcining. ❋ C. F. Cross (N/A)
He cleared the land and built a log house with a black-ash bark roof, and a great stone chimney, and a floor of hewn logs. ❋ Barrus, Clara, 1864-1931 (1914)
Such companions befit the season of frosted window-panes and crackling fires, when the blast howls through the black-ash trees of our avenue, and the drifting snowstorm chokes up the wood paths and fills the highway from stone wall to stone wall. ❋ Unknown (1914)
What an unlooked for flight was this from our shadowy avenue of black-ash and balm-of-gilead trees into the infinite! ❋ Unknown (1914)
It lay back from the main road, and was approached by an avenue of ancient black-ash trees, whose deep shade added much to the quiet appearance of ❋ McCabe, Jr James D (1887)
Their neighbors helped them build a house of logs, with a roof of black-ash bark and a floor of hewn white-ash plank. ❋ John Burroughs (1879)
Sometimes, in cloudy weather, I was lost and it looked to me as though they were going the wrong way, but I followed them, through black-ash swales where the water was knee-deep, sometimes nearly barefooted. ❋ Nowlin, William, 1821-1884 (1876)
It lay back from the main road, and was approached by an avenue of ancient black-ash trees, whose deep shade added much to the quiet appearance of "the gray front of the old parsonage." ❋ James Dabney McCabe (1862)
There was the usual long-handled axe of the primitive woods by the door, three and a half feet long, -- for my new black-ash rule was in constant use, -- and a large, shaggy dog, whose nose, report said, was full of porcupine quills. ❋ Unknown (1858)
But Hawthorne's black-ash trees and scraggy apple boughs shaded ❋ George William Curtis (1858)
Hawthorne's black-ash trees and scraggy apple-boughs shaded ❋ George William Curtis (1858)
The forest which covers it, consisting chiefly of white-cedar, black-ash, and other trees that live in excessive moisture, is now decayed and death-struck by the partial draining of the swamp into the great ditch of the canal. ❋ Nathaniel Hawthorne (1834)
Between two tall gate-posts of rough-hewn stone (the gate itself having fallen from its hinges at some unknown epoch) we beheld the gray front of the old parsonage, terminating the vista of an avenue of black-ash trees. ❋ Nathaniel Hawthorne (1834)
What an unlooked-for flight was this from our shadowy avenue of black-ash and balm of Gilead trees into the infinite! ❋ Nathaniel Hawthorne (1834)
Such companions befit the season of frosted window-panes and crackling fires, when the blast howls through the black-ash trees of our avenue and the drifting snow - storm chokes up the wood-paths and fills the highway from stone wall to stone wall. ❋ Nathaniel Hawthorne (1834)
