black ash


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Noun1.black ash - vigorous spreading North American tree having dark brown heavy woodblack ash - vigorous spreading North American tree having dark brown heavy wood; leaves turn gold in autumn
ash tree, ash - any of various deciduous pinnate-leaved ornamental or timber trees of the genus Fraxinus
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To the trained eye there is as much difference between the black ash of a Trichinopoly and the white fluff of bird's-eye as there is between a cabbage and a potato."
Now, notice here, the marks of two large footprints and the black ash they left where they have been.
I have watered the red huckleberry, the sand cherry and the nettle-tree, the red pine and the black ash, the white grape and the yellow violet, which might have withered else in dry seasons.
Fat black ash by the altar-stone, Here is the white-foot rain, And the does bring forth in the fields unsown, And none shall affright them again; And the blind walls crumble, unknown, o'erthrown And none shall inhabit again!
There's a place way out down by the quarters, where you can see a black, blasted tree, and the ground all covered with black ashes. Ask anyone what was done there, and see if they will dare to tell you."
Instead of answering her, he pointed to the flaming letter, and to some black ashes of burnt paper lying lightly in the lower part of the fireplace.
A line of stalls selling very simple food and tobacco, a stack of firewood, a police-station, a well, a horse-trough, a few trees, and, under them, some trampled ground dotted with the black ashes of old fires, are all that mark a parao on the Grand Trunk; if you except the beggars and the crows - both hungry.
138-154) And when the god had duly finished all, he threw his sandals into deep-eddying Alpheus, and quenched the embers, covering the black ashes with sand, and so spent the night while Selene's soft light shone down.
Councilor Jason Marcelo, Sangguniang Bayan (SB) chairman of the Committee on Environment, and the farmers showed white and black ash dumped at a private land adjacent to the MRF in a sitio in Barangay Salian, some five kilometers from the Roman Highway here.
The actress also shared a video of her flat after the fire, with the walls and window sills darkened with black ash.
Residents reported seeing a JCB driven by a group of youths at Black Ash Park in the Lliswerry area of Newport at about 6.30pm on Tuesday.
Byline: Jim Dodgy surfaces in my day were black ash not plastic