The Russian half-breed wife of Bettles sought the fireplace, inconsolable, and rocked back and forth, and ever and anon flung white wood-ashes upon her raven hair. ❋ Unknown (2010)
His mother strewed wood-ashes on her head and blackened her face. ❋ Unknown (2010)
He was only a young man, and a dandy at that, his face blackened with charcoal, his hair whitened with wood-ashes, with the freshly severed tail of a wild pig thrust through his perforated nose, and two more thrust through his ears. ❋ Unknown (2010)
And, to come to domestic customs, at Lyme Regis in Dorsetshire the person who bought the wood-ashes of a family used to send a present of a large candle at Candlemas. ❋ John (2008)
The market is crowded with people from morning to night: some of the stalls contain nothing but beads; others indigo in balls; others wood-ashes in balls; others Houssa and Jinnie cloth. ❋ Unknown (2008)
A large quantity of wood-ashes is collected (the woods preferred for the purpose are the mimosa nitta, and mimosa pulverulenta,) and put into an unglazed earthen vessel which has a hole in its bottom; over which is put some straw. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Left to himself, Vendale raked the logs together, sprinkled over them the white wood-ashes lying on the hearth, and sat down to compose his thoughts. ❋ Unknown (2007)
The root of this plant (‘Convolvulus batata’) does not keep more than two or three days, unless it is cut into thin slices and dried in the sun, but the Maravi manage to preserve them for months by digging a pit and burying them therein inclosed in wood-ashes. ❋ Unknown (2004)
I did so with some regret, for we had good fare enough in it, and I rather liked it; we had only stones for seats, but we made splendid fires, and got fresh and clean snow-grass to lie on, and dried the floor with wood-ashes. ❋ Unknown (2004)
For he seemed so poor in his old age and rags, so solitary and dejected as he sat there with knees drawn up, his great, brown, bare feet looking almost black by contrast with the white wood-ashes about them! ❋ Unknown (2004)
We made our own butter, a jar serving as a churn; and our own candles by means of moulds; and soap was procured from the ashes of the plant salsola, or from wood-ashes, which in Africa contain so little alkaline matter that the boiling of successive leys has to be continued for a month or six weeks before the fat is saponified. ❋ Unknown (2004)
_Lye_, a liquor made from wood-ashes; of great use in medicine, bleaching, sugar works, &c. ❋ Anonymous (N/A)
Soft soap is generally made of a lye of wood-ashes and quicklime, boiled up with tallow or oil; common household soap of soda and tallow, or of potash and tallow; when potash is used, a large portion of common salt, which contains soda, is added to harden it. ❋ Anonymous (N/A)
Lyme Regis in Dorsetshire the person who bought the wood-ashes of a family used to send a present of a large candle at Candlemas. ❋ Clement A. Miles (N/A)
In the opening, a bed of sand and wood-ashes or powdered charcoal is made, on which the root is placed. ❋ Sutton And Sons (N/A)
When planted, dust lightly with soot or wood-ashes. ❋ Sutton And Sons (N/A)
As the faded garment was brought from the garret and Alfred, with wood-ashes and vinegar brightened up the ornaments and medals, he thought John had been a mighty general, judging from the medals he wore. ❋ Ben W. [Illustrator] Warden (N/A)
Wainamoinen had found seven magic barley-grains as he was wandering on the seashore one day, and he took these and was about to plant them; but the titmouse stopped him, saying: 'The magic barley will not grow unless thou first cut down and burn the forest, and then plant the seeds in the wood-ashes.' ❋ R. Eivind (N/A)
Farm-yard manure is that most suitable for the cabbage, but artificial manures such as guano, superphosphate of lime or gypsum, together with lime-rubbish, wood-ashes and marl, may, if required, be applied with advantage. ❋ Various (N/A)
The common way of drying grapes for raisins, is to tie two or three bunches of them together while yet on the vine, and dip them into a lye made of hot wood-ashes, mixed with a little olive oil. ❋ Anonymous (N/A)
Whoa, did you see that girl walkin down the street. She was [mos def] an [ash woods].
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Ay man dont be bringing that [Ash Woods] mess into this party, we aint down wit [Hasselhoff] music. ❋ Bigchase (2006)
