ashman
Americannoun
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ashmen
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Herbert L. Pye, 61, ashman, fell heir last week to $1,500,000.
From Time Magazine Archive
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 Robert Louis Stevenson
"I may confess that it was with some difficulty I rescued this coat from the ashman, to whom your mother had given it."
From Why Joan? by Eleanor Mercein Kelly
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 Heywood Broun
The ashman was raising a can of ashes above his head to dump the contents into his cart, when the bottom of the can came out.
From Toaster's Handbook Jokes, Stories, and Quotations by C. E. (Clara Elizabeth) Fanning
There are a lot of other ashmen in Portland, don't forget.
From Time Magazine Archive
There must be engineers, with high pay, to watch the engine and to keep it always in order, and firemen to feed the fires, and ashmen to carry away the ashes and cinders.
From Rollo in Holland by Jacob Abbott
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