ashman
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Herbert L. Pye, 61, ashman, fell heir last week to $1,500,000.
From Time Magazine Archive
R., who comes from Virginia, could not be made to abandon a narrow-minded point of view about H.'s conception of his relation to the ashman.
From Seeing Things at Night by Broun, Heywood
Listening a minute outside the kitchen door she slipped stealthily down the cellar stairs, and tiptoed over to the area door where the ashman took out the ashes.
From Exit Betty by Hill, Grace Livingston
I had been so thoroughly warmed in body and spirit, that when at length my fuel was housed, I came near selling it to the ashman, as if I had extracted all its heat.”
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 3 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis
No wonder the ashman is not more thorough: he learns from his masters.
From The Promised Land by Antin, Mary
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