ASHES


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ASHESAmerican Society for Healthcare Environmental Services
ASHESAxial Seamount Hydrothermal Emissions Study
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Playmore, I now reminded him that the eruption which had overwhelmed the town had preserved, for more than sixteen hundred years, such perishable things as the straw in which pottery had been packed; the paintings on house walls; the dresses worn by the inhabitants; and (most noticeable of all, in our case) a piece of ancient paper, still attached to the volcanic ashes which had fallen over it.
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I lay among the ashes and groaned with the pain of my burn, and groaned also from the desolation of my heart.
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Others, reposing upon heaps of coals or ashes, with their faces turned to the black vault above, slept or rested from their toil.
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I surpassed myself, the suffering one; I carried mine own ashes to the mountain; a brighter flame I contrived for myself.
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On reaching the entrance to the forest she found the path strewed with ashes, and these she followed, throwing down some peas on either side of her at every step she took.
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Rake away a place among the embers, lay it there, and cover it an inch deep with hot ashes. When it is done, remove it; blow off all the ashes but one layer; butter that one and eat.
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I spare you all our consultations after I had produced the crumpled paper from the ashes. It ended in George's lawyer being written to, and in George himself being recalled from the Continent.
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Instead of a house they found only fire-blackened foundations of stone, enclosing an area of compact ashes pitted by rains.
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Descendants of some of those proud families still inhabit the palaces of Genoa, and trace in their own features a resemblance to the grim knights whose portraits hang in their stately halls, and to pictured beauties with pouting lips and merry eyes whose originals have been dust and ashes for many a dead and forgotten century.
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He had a right to be a LITTLE annoyed with the Queen, for he was covered with ashes from head to foot.
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When I had finished washing the dishes, I cleaned the cabin stove and carried the ashes up on deck to empty them.
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He stopped for an instant to look upon its smoking walls, and at the stars that shone through roof and floor upon the heap of crumbling ashes. Solomon glanced timidly in his face, but his lips were tightly pressed together, a resolute and stern expression sat upon his brow, and not a tear, a look, or gesture indicating grief, escaped him.
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