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Examples
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Heaped orderly with books, magazines and scribble-pads, there was room on the big reading stand for matches, cigarettes, an ash-tray, and a thermos bottle.
CHAPTER I 2010
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He threw down a cigar-stump that he had taken from his father's ash-tray.
Separate Douglas Light 2010
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The pilot stared at the glass ash-tray on the green-baize tablecloth flushed and miserable.
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The pilot stared at the ash-tray in concentration.
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She smells like a wet public ash-tray that someone threw a half eaten burger in, a week ago.
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With lazy skin and ash-tray eyes and perforated pride
Archive 2008-04-01 2008
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And when I was done I had a lot of things that suck and some things that I really like and I even did a couple decent sketches - one of the church beside which I live, and one of the coffee-mug and ash-tray on my table - that please me greatly, though they were certainly more valuable as exercises in perspective than as genuine artistic endeavors.
A Response and a Story savemyseoul 2008
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He lit a half-smoked one from the ash-tray and lay smoking in the early morning gloom.
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He lit a half-smoked one from the ash-tray and lay smoking in the early morning gloom.
Archive 2007-01-01 2007
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As Richard Curle wrote in his 1923 book "Into the East: Notes on Burma and Malaya," at "the Pegu Club in Rangoon they bet out of which hole of an inverted ash-tray a captured ant will issue."
Born in Burma 2007
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