Word: ashli
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Joseph was a lazy boy who could do nothing better than cut down trees neatly. But, what Uncle Henry, who raised the biggest lettuce heads ever seen in those parts, could never understand, was why Joseph refused to cut down the ash trees. Metabel came to know the reason when she met one day a little green god sitting in the woods and talking to some mice. He preferred ash trees to live under and Joseph knew it. Joseph would never have cut down an ash if St. John Deakan had not come to dinner one night and brought...
...thunder storm that night, and Musket, who was an old dog and had just had a somewhat exhausting love affair, was annoyed at having to sniff about the damp slippery woods all night. In the morning Joseph found Metabel and promised that he would not cut down any more ash trees. He even kissed...
...increased budget for the Union library is gratifying, for the combination to be found there of a complete collection of books at one elbow and an ash tray at the other is as much an aid to civilized study as the restaurant may be to meals...
...similarity is timeless. Fortunately for the world in general and for Harvard College in particular this epigrammatic obituary of the still-born hopes and illusions of youth is quite incorrect. It is assuredly a neat phrase and accompanied by a certain shrug of the shoulders and flick of the ash it assumes the proportions of a social gesture. But it is untrue--gloriously untrue...
...Biblical tamarisk manna is not to be confused with the manna of the manna ash tree (Fraxinns ornus) cultivated commercially on the frassinetti (plantations) around Palermo, Sicily. The manna ash are the trees visitors in Palermo in early summer see blooming with clusters of whitest flowers...