Use ashes in a sentence
Sentences ending with ashes
- What in the world possessed you to clutter up the parlor table with these baskets of ashes? [5]
- Trixy told her to-night she'd discarded the sackcloth and kept the ashes. [9]
- Hast thou naught to say but this--the fortune of Egypt burned to ashes! [11]
- Had I desired to feast my eyes on the castle in flames, it would, perhaps, now lie in ashes. [10]
- The silver had to be rubbed; also the grand plated urn,--her mother's before hers,--style of the Empire,--looking as if it might have been made to hold the Major's ashes. [6]
- She would rekindle, though but for the last blaze, the fire of his hero-nature, which blind love for her and the magic spell that had enabled her to bind his will had covered for a time with ashes. [10]
- If they burned their dead here, it would take a forest to reduce them to ashes. [10]
- Away through all the telegraphic radiations of the nervous cords flashed the intelligence that the brain was kindling, and must be fed with something or other, or it would burn itself to ashes. [6]
- My Achilles reveals the good qualities with which he came into the world; and if you look closely you may still find sparks among the ashes. [10]
- What lay beneath that mass of ashes? [10]
Short sentences using ashes
- It will be ashes directly. [10]
- Ashes, and dust, and ruin! [12]
- Ashes. [9]
Sentences containing ashes two or more times
- The theologians have helped them to cover the spark with ashes, and naturally they won't allow the ashes to be touched, if they can help it. [9]
- And a hermit's got to sleep on the hardest place he can find, and put sackcloth and ashes on his head, and stand out in the rain, and--" "What does he put sackcloth and ashes on his head for? [5]
- Earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust! [12]
More example sentences with the word ashes in them
- Then her spirit would rise from her body's ashes, a thousandfold reinforced, and sweep the English domination into the sea, and Cauchon along with it. [5]
- Many a person would be afraid to stay there, even half an hour, when the mountain quakes, the ashes fall in showers, and the glowing lava pours out in a stream. [10]
- His pipe lay with its scattered ashes on the boards, and his head was bent forward, as though listening. [9]
- The costly urn, which thou wilt receive herewith, is sent by Sappho to preserve the ashes of the deceased. [10]
- All about me were gray heaps of ashes, and bones of deer and elk and buffalo scattered, some picked clean, some with the meat and hide sticking to them. [9]
- And I suppose we put on the sackcloth and ashes, when the striped bug came at four o'clock A.M., and we watched the tender leaves, and watered night and morning the feeble plants. [4]
- The king gave way to the most immoderate grief; he tore the flesh of his arms, rent his clothes and strewed ashes on his head, and on his couch. [10]
- The whole house was, in the common language of the newspaper reports, "a perfect tinder-box," and would probably be a heap of ashes in half an hour. [6]
- What a woman was she whose ashes lie there! [4]
- Sure enough, it was a Pi Ute Injun I used to know in Tulare County; mighty good fellow--I remembered being at his funeral, which consisted of him being burnt and the other Injuns gauming their faces with his ashes and howling like wildcats. [5]
- Beside the hall was a corner lot, heaped high with hills of ashes and rubbish like the vomitings of some filthy volcano; the unsightliness of which was half concealed by huge signs announcing the merits of chewing gums, tobaccos, and cereals. [9]
- He rose and walked over to the fireplace and flicked his ashes into it before he spoke. [9]
- For himself, he took his station on a rugged mat before the furnace-door, and resting his chin upon his hands, watched the flame as it shone through the iron chinks, and the white ashes as they fell into their bright hot grave below. [12]
- His pipe fell to the floor, and the ashes scattered on the boards and lay glowing there. [9]
- Then he began to rake the ashes, and, suddenly bending down, seized something in them,--the broken bowl of an Indian pipe. [9]
- Russia will shudder to learn of the abandonment of the city in which her greatness is centered and in which lie the ashes of your ancestors! [2]
- If he asked to kiss me, I should crumble into dust, as ashes dried in the sun crumble if you touch them with a finger, and I should be as much afraid of his lips as of a lion's. [10]
- She was about to cry again; then she had an idea, and seized the shovel and deluged her own head with the ashes, stammering out through her chokings and suffocations: "There--now it is done. [5]
- The air was thick with tobacco-smoke, trays were scattered about, laden with stubs of cigars and ashes, and empty and half-filled glasses were everywhere. [11]
- Dust and ashes these seventeen hundred years! [5]
- It struck him there was a dull fire in his heart a great deal like it; and he worked out a fanciful analogy with the coals, still alive, and the ashes creeping over them, and the dead clay and cinders. [8]
- I knew by the way that Barlas dropped the damper on the hot ashes and swung round on his heel that he was in a bad temper. [11]
- When we reached the top and got within the wall, we found simply a shallow, far-reaching basin, carpeted with ashes, and here and there a patch of fine sand. [5]
- Evening came, and the richest, most flourishing commercial capital in the world was here a heap of ashes, there a ruin, everywhere a plundered treasury. [10]
- He turned to the people, and cried: 'Dry be your streets, and as ashes your eyes for your king! [11]
- The back and the jambs are built up of great stones, not always smoothly laid, with jutting ledges upon which ashes are apt to lie. [4]
- To provide against the flurried inquisition of his eye, I kept near me bread well chewed, with which I filled the hole, covering it with the sand I had rubbed or the ashes of my pipe. [11]
- Nothing grows in the flat, burning desert around it but weeds and the Dead Sea apple the poets say is beautiful to the eye, but crumbles to ashes and dust when you break it. [5]
- I agree with The Dictator that poetry is little more than the ashes of passion; still it may show that the flame has had its sweep where you find it, unless, indeed, it is shoveled in from another man's fireplace. [6]
- Beyond it rose the cone of ashes, out of which the great cloud of sulphurous smoke rises and rolls night and day now. [4]
- His coat is the color of ashes: and ashes are the symbol of hopes that have perished, of aspirations that came to nought, of loves that are buried. [5]
- I will take the ashes at a moderate discount, if any one will take the thirty miles of smoke, but I do not feel able to take a commanding interest in the whole story by myself. [5]
- Almost colorless in the ardent daylight, they greedily consumed everything they approached, and white ashes marked their track. [10]
- But the niches that had contained the ashes of these renowned crusaders were empty. [5]
- And if by taking thought, he had arrived, from nowhere, at his present position of ease and eminence, success had not turned to ashes in his mouth. [9]
- The young lady staying with us was roasting chestnuts in the ashes, and the frequent explosions required considerable attention. [4]
- Why, bless your soul, if all the cities of the world were reduced ashes, you'd have a new set of millionnaires in a couple of years or so, out of the trade in potash. [6]
- Then he took some ashes from his cigar, wetted his finger, and thus ingeniously removed all appearance of newness from the hole he had made, carefully cleaning up the chips and putting them in his pocket. [9]
- All in a single moment these things have withered to dirt, dust, ashes. [5]
- Very rarely did she recall the day when the funeral-pile had cooled, and the ashes of the two mothers, both so early summoned to the realm of shadows, were collected, placed in the vases, and added to the other urns. [10]
- The first thing she did was to fling the flower into her fireplace and rake the ashes over it. [6]
- Nor could I see how I was to live without her, life lacking a motive being incomprehensible: yet the fire of optimism in me, though died down to ashes, would not be extinguished. [9]
- Palestine sits in sackcloth and ashes. [5]
- Early rose potatoes, roasted in the ashes, Southern style, served hot. [5]
- May his ashes rest in peace, while his spirit goes to take its station among the great and good men who preceded him. [7]
- Under the altar repose the ashes of St. Mark--and Matthew, Luke and John, too, for all I know. [5]
- But the incendiary regretted none of them, for all possibility of proving how much that was precious had fallen into his hands was buried under their ashes. [10]
- Rake away a place among the embers, lay it there, and cover it an inch deep with hot ashes. [5]
- Over these ashes pine twigs and branches were spread, and over them again blankets. [11]
- The ashes of Peter, the disciple of the Saviour, repose in a crypt under the baldacchino. [5]
- We next addressed ourselves to the Cone, which is a loose hill of ashes and sand,--a natural slope, I should say, of about one and a half to one, offering no foothold. [4]
- Still he walked on unharmed, past the ashes and the ruins. [9]
- In the ashes on the hearth, side by side with my own bare footprint, was another, so vast that in comparison mine was but an infant's! [5]
- Before the ashes of the fire stood two gentlemen, one of whom she rightly judged to be the notary, and the other (who was buttoning his great-coat and was evidently about to depart immediately) Mr Abel Garland. [12]
- This potent fire of love might doubtless be smothered with sand and ashes, but never extinguished. [10]
- It's a bag of gold that has turned to dirt and ashes in my hands. [5]
- Upon her bed of ashes, and amidst the squalid horrors through which they had forced their way, visions of such scenes--beautiful indeed, but not more beautiful than this sweet reality--had been always present to her mind. [12]
- A white layer of ashes covered the fire, and a thin blue breath of smoke rose straight into the air. [5]
- But there is nothing gross in the animated crackling of sticks of wood blazing on the earth, not even if chestnuts are roasting in the ashes. [4]
- But we found nothing but solitude, ashes and a heart-breaking silence. [5]
- The French have no Bastile to lay low, nor, indeed, any Tuileries to burn up; but perhaps they might get a good way ahead by demolishing Notre Dame and reducing most of Paris to ashes. [4]
- At these tidings my brother lost all heart, and fell back in the arm-chair as pale as ashes. [10]
- Inside of a month they'd have all the woodwork stripped off for kindling, the drainage stopped up, the bathtubs filled with ashes. [9]
- Clearly, his great mistake had turned from ashes into fruit. [11]
- You caring for me!--for me, that burned the title to your fortune to ashes before your eyes! [6]
- Yes, it's a matter of ashes. [5]
- Then came the match, and the flames made ashes of all those things which once he called his own. [11]
- He found Dalice lying beside the ashes of her fire, past hearing all he said in her ear, unheeding the kiss he set upon her lips. [11]
- Some of his low places he found lifted to ideals, some of his ideas had sunk to the valleys, and lay there with the sackcloth and ashes of pumice stone and sulphur on their ruined heads. [5]
- Today the soot, like the ashes of Vesuvius, spouting from ten thousand soft-coal craters, has buried that house and the whole district fathoms deep in social obscurity. [9]
- Grief seems more like ashes than like fire; but as grief has been love once, so it may become love again. [6]
- His was the liberation of the Word,--now vouchsafed to him; the freeing of the spark from under the ashes. [9]
- Nothing will be left of me except the ashes, to which you will reduce my body, and what you call 'possession. [10]
- Then a little lead (also weighed) is rolled up with the flake of silver and the two are melted at a great heat in a small vessel called a cupel, made by compressing bone ashes into a cup-shape in a steel mold. [5]
- We looked like lava men, covered as we were with ashes, and begrimed with smoke. [5]
- Could she face it--even the murky grey light of this that revealed the ashes and litter of the back yard under the downpour? [9]
- Behind the altar is the massive sarcophagus of marble (its cover of silver plates was long ago torn off) in which are literally the ashes of the empress. [4]
- The fuzzy blossom is the color of bad cigar ashes, and appears to be made of a cheap quality of gray plush. [5]
- Like Homer, he is said to be buried in many other places, but this is the only true and genuine place his ashes inhabit. [5]
- A new house is put up over the ashes of the one in which your husband lived while he was here. [6]
- In this Chapel is a marble chest, in which, they told us, were the ashes of St. John; and around it was wound a chain, which, they said, had confined him when he was in prison. [5]
- The British were irritated by a conflagration which had that morning laid almost a third of the city in ashes, and which they attributed to incendiary efforts to deprive them of agreeable winter quarters. [4]
- The gray ashes in Venters's hand had once been bone of a human being like himself. [13]
- Truth to tell, in this battle he had fought for victory for his ship and a fall for himself: for the fruit he had plucked was turning to dust and ashes. [11]
- He poked about in the ashes, but found no silver. [4]
- That found expression in a few oh, oh's, eheu's, helas, helas's, and when the passion had burned itself out you got the rhymed verses, which, as I have said, are its ashes. [6]
- I doubt if I ever did; yet oh, how pleasant it would have been, at about the age, say, of threescore and ten, to rake over these ashes for cinders with her,--she in a snowy cap, and I in a decent peruke! [6]
- At that window I commenced to build again upon the ashes of last night's fire. [11]
- The others followed him, crying out at the size of the place and poking among the ashes. [9]
- Such had been her feeling when she had first read the hastily written letter, but even when she had burned it it had risen again from the ashes. [9]
- It was to have a spring at the head of my bed, connecting with a wire, which should run to a torpedo which I would plant over night in the ashes of the fireplace. [4]
- The good fellow has never forgotten the handsome dowry you gave my Baner when he married her, and in three days he came and told me he had seen your beautiful chest and all the rolls it contained burnt to ashes. [10]
- But the Goth had not lain in it long before Arianism went out of fashion quite, and the zealous Roman Catholics despoiled his costly sleeping-place, and scattered his ashes abroad. [4]
- And that they had covered the spark with ashes. [9]
- A carved stone had been found under the ashes, and Chello, the Tennis goldsmith, said he had had in his own workshop the gem set in the hapless artist's shoulder clasp, and supplied it with a new pin. [10]
- There were ashes, gray and soft and delicate and pretty--I knew what they were at once. [5]
- There was the golden Cock of Beaugard in the cinders, the ashes and the dust. [11]
- Not though a glance at this tablet shows you that when he is nothing but ashes the world will still continue long to obey your nod? [10]
- The desire to get profit by honest toiling was dying down to ashes. [11]
- The mounting sense gathers fresh forms and strange fire from the ashes of dissolving self, and drops the world. [5]
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