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  • How white-ash bleak must one's fury be at having political power for eight years and then losing all of it to ignore reality and believe the government wants to kill old people?

    Robert J. Elisberg: If Only Healthcare Reform Covered Full Insanity 2009

  • While this clumsy lubber was striving to free his white-ash, and while, in consequence,

    Moby Dick; or the Whale 2002

  • In the center of the chamber, growing up from the floor, a branch of white-ash wood stood alone.

    Bloodlines Coleman, Loren L. 1999

  • It'd have been a tough job to warp her in so far, with a white-ash breeze.

    Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good Albert Walter Tolman

  • He stands six feet one without his shoes; he is straight as the white-ash shade tree that honors the north meadow; and his body, and arms, and legs, are round, and hard, and clean.

    Summerfield or, Life on a Farm Day Kellogg Lee

  • There is already a fine meadow of timothy, with white-ash shade trees, waving on the north; a pasture beyond the garden on the east, and a wheat-field on the south.

    Summerfield or, Life on a Farm Day Kellogg Lee

  • The spear is a family relic which he dug up and fitted with a white-ash pole, and the anchor is a long stone, tied by the slack of a clothes-line.

    The Ontario Readers: Fourth Book Ontario. Ministry of Education

  • O'Rell's white-ash is a foot in diameter and fifty feet high; Edward

    The Amateur Garden George Washington Cable 1884

  • Their neighbors helped them build a house of logs, with a roof of black-ash bark and a floor of hewn white-ash plank.

    In the Catskills Selections from the Writings of John Burroughs John Burroughs 1879

  • Peggy ran swiftly towards the unsuspecting figure, evidently the leader of the party, but deviated slightly to snatch a tiny spray from a white-ash tree.

    Openings in the Old Trail Bret Harte 1869

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