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  • No wonder the ashman is not more thorough: he learns from his masters.

    The Promised Land 1912

  • December 14th, 2008 at 7: 53 pm looking for 10000 says: looking for 10000 … ashman pressurize: precipitately, censored: autonavigators, …

    Think Progress » Iraqi Leaders Call On U.S. To Set Timetable 2005

  • Jeka waited until the ashman led the limping mare away, then rinsed the flask and filled it.

    Wellspring of Chaos Modesitt, L. E. 2004

  • A great deal of the filthy rubbish accumulated in a year is pitched into the street, often through the windows; and what the ashman on his daily round does not remove is left to be trampled to powder, in which form it steals back into the houses from which it was so lately removed.

    The Promised Land Mary Antin 1915

  • No wonder the ashman is not more thorough: he learns from his masters.

    The Promised Land Mary Antin 1915

  • A great deal of the filthy rubbish accumulated in a year is pitched into the street, often through the windows; and what the ashman on his daily round does not remove is left to be trampled to powder, in which form it steals back into the houses from which it was so lately removed.

    The Promised Land 1912

  • A great deal of the filthy rubbish accumulated in a year is pitched into the street, often through the windows; and what the ashman on his daily round does not remove is left to be trampled to powder, in which form it steals back into the houses from which it was so lately removed.

    The Promised Land Antin, Mary, 1881-1949 1912

  • No wonder the ashman is not more thorough: he learns from his masters.

    The Promised Land Antin, Mary, 1881-1949 1912

  • A baby may find and swallow it; the ashman sever an artery; dropping it overboard at sea is impracticable, to say nothing of the danger to some innocent fish.

    The Perfect Gentleman Ralph Bergengren 1909

  • "As you say," said Myrtella meekly; then with a sudden flare, "though it does look like I might be trusted one more day to finish up the general cleaning and git after the ashman for not emptyin 'them barrels."

    A Romance of Billy-Goat Hill Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice 1906

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