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Sentence Examples As gannets wheeled and dived into the blue-green waters, Muiris scattered most of the ashes over the sea. Last Friday in Edinburgh, Masterton and Burt were still raking over the ashes over their loss. Associated with these intrusions were outpourings of andesitic and more acidic lavas and fine ashes. The brave Kiltegan man grabbed jugs of water and eventually quenched the chip-pan fire which had threatened to reduce the house to ashes. In the not-so-distant future, an independent country, which belongs to Kurds, will rise from these wants, pains, fire and ashes. The Oberhausen aquarium erected a memorial of the psychic octopus with a golden urn containing his ashes. And Operation Paperclip, born of the ashes of World War II, was the inciting incident in this hall of mirrors. Warm milk mixed with a spoonful of fireplace ashes seemed to also be popular among 19th century England. Increasingly, cities long left to rot are rising from the ashes of blight as they try to become shining examples of new urbanism. They wear ornaments of human bone, which remind us of death, impermanence and renunciation, and as adornment, they wear ashes from cremation grounds. In a mourning weed, with ashes upon her head, and tears abundantly flowing. After cremation the Khasi take the ashes of their dead to the clan cinerarium. Because of these remaining bone fragments, the cremains must be pulverized to a grainy powder before any scattering of ashes. The farm-men usually bake their flour into flat cakes, which they call dampers, and cook these in the ashes. Now ye and yore boys jest haul yore ashes and start makin' tracks back to the Yellowstone. Claudius' ashes were interred in the Mausoleum of Augustus on 24 October 54 AD, after a funeral in the manner of Augustus. When cremation did take place, the ashes were usually placed within an urn and then buried, sometimes along with grave goods. He was cremated in America and his ashes were flown to England where they were placed in a memorial in a church in Cranwell. He was cremated at Putney Vale Crematorium, but his ashes were scattered from the top of Llanwonno, over his beloved Ferndale. Emperor's Tomb sets up Jones's companion Wu Han and the search for Nurhaci's ashes seen at the beginning of Temple of Doom. Show More Sentences The greatest fire to date happened in 1702 when 90 percent of the city was burned to ashes. She was cremated and her ashes were interred in St Andrew's churchyard, adjacent to Kilverstone Hall, on 22 July. Astronomers believe planets might form in this dead star's disk, like the mythical Phoenix rising up out of the ashes. The name comes from the custom of cremating the dead and placing their ashes in urns which were then buried in fields. The soil is covered with ashes, and black in color as if the mountainous and rocky country was made up of fires. The mausoleum was despoiled by the Goths in 410 during the Sack of Rome, and his ashes were scattered. Later, she took the emperor's ashes to the Flavian Temple and mingled them with those of his niece, Julia. Trajan's ashes were laid to rest underneath Trajan's column, the monument commemorating his success. The pagan emperors' tombs of the Mausoleum of Augustus and Castel Sant'Angelo were rifled and the ashes scattered. The Wehrmacht occupied Kalinin for two months from October 17 to December 16, 1941, leaving the city in ashes. Rectangular boxes of brick or stone served as furnaces, with an opening at the bottom to stoke the fire and remove ashes. Significant imports of potash obtained from the ashes of trees burned in opening new agricultural lands were imported. Following cremation at Woking Crematorium, his ashes were scattered off Beachy Head, near Eastbourne as he had requested. It was necessary for them to rediscover fire, to relearn the basic laws of economics and rebuild civilization out of the ashes of ruin. The sodium carbonate was extracted from the ashes with water, and then collected by allowing the water to evaporate. The traditional source of alkali in western Europe had been potash obtained from wood ashes. The soda ash from glasswort plant ashes was mainly a mixture of sodium carbonate and potassium carbonate. Potash was principally obtained by leaching the ashes of land and sea plants. It was refined from the ashes of broadleaved trees and produced primarily in the forested areas of Europe, Russia, and North America. He was cremated at Golders Green Crematorium and his ashes were interred in Highgate Cemetery. Show More Sentences The can was seized soon thereafter, and as the judge's trial got under way, an IRS lab was remoisturizing the ashes and reconstructing checks. First comes Haystacks, Wainwright's favourite fell and the resting place of his ashes. Wainwright's ashes were scattered by his wife, Betty, near the shores of Innominate Tarn. In addition to true ashes of the kind described above, there are lumps of the old lavas and tuffs forming the walls of the crater, etc. The ashes vary in size from large blocks twenty feet or more in diameter to the minutest impalpable dust. Many of the green slates of the lake district in Cumberland are fine cleaved ashes. If on the other hand a body was cremated, the ashes were usually put in a cinerary urn, and then the urn was placed in a kistvaen. After he realised the gravity of his crime he spent some time wearing sackcloth and ashes. I have not found that water, by mixture of ashes, will shrink or draw into less room. Men have tasted of the apples of Sodom, and they have found bitter ashes under an inviting and luscious surface. The ashes of the champion racehorse, who died at the Devon course last November, are buried by the winning post at the racetrack in Cheltenham. The city would rise from its ashes though as summer homes for Ak Koyunlu emirs were built. Zeolite are mainly created by volcanic and sediment rocks and layer of volcanic ashes. The ashes of Shelley, one of Keats's most fervent champions, are buried in the cemetery and Joseph Severn is buried next to Keats. Shelley's ashes were interred in the Protestant Cemetery, Rome, near an ancient pyramid in the city walls. A compromise was reached whereby his heart was buried at Stinsford with Emma, and his ashes in Poets' Corner. He was cremated at Golders Green Crematorium on 16 August 1946, with his ashes scattered at sea near Old Harry Rocks. A memorial service was held at St James's Church, Piccadilly, and she was cremated at Golders Green Crematorium, where her ashes remain. His ashes were interred at Chichester Cathedral in Sussex, close to the memorial to Thomas Weelkes, his favourite Tudor composer. He checked into the Dorchester hotel, before visiting Golders Green Crematorium for the first time to see the location of his parents' ashes. Show More Sentences His body was cremated and his ashes were interred at Golders Green Crematorium in London. He was deified by the Senate and his ashes were laid to rest under Trajan's Column. Though the team did not win, the urn containing the ashes was sent to him just before leaving Melbourne. But the ashes of Auschwitz fell on Hitler's folly, on the announcement of the millenarian Reich. In a private ceremony Thatcher's ashes were interred in the grounds of the hospital, next to those of her husband. His ashes were scattered near the Maugham Library, The King's School, Canterbury. Thomas's ashes are buried close to the door of St John's Church, Porthmadog, Gwynedd. He was cremated, and his ashes were placed in a display urn at Golders Green Crematorium in north London. His ashes, mixed with those of Charlotte, were scattered along footpaths and around the statue of Saint Joan in their garden. He was cremated and his ashes interred in his parents' grave at Kensal Green Cemetery, London. He asked for his ashes to be scattered in Scotland and gave his own children Scottish names. Stupas in India and Tibet probably started out in a similar fashion, although they now generally contain the ashes of a Buddhist saint or lama. They then burned the body twice more, to reduce it to ashes and prevent any collection of relics, and cast her remains into the Seine River. The conflagration lasted six days, till the whole of the dwellings were reduced to ashes or smoking ruins. Volcanic ashes and lavas accumulate on the surface, and igneous intrusions enter from below. She'd change the noonmark in the door so'st Mis' Beaver wouldn't start to git dinner till way past the hour, and she'd throw ashes in the butter. Vegetables, especially root vegetables were often cooked directly in the ashes of the fire. In some Quaker religious traditions, the coffin or ashes are not present. As Leddy Macbeth! Her gran' high straicht-nosed face, whiter than ashes! During the 1970s, the Soviet Union stated that Adolf Hitler's ashes had been scattered in the Elbe following disinterment from their original burial site. Show More Sentences The name derives from pot ash, which refers to plant ashes soaked in water in a pot, the primary means of manufacturing the product before the industrial era. He then retrieved a metal thatch rake and used it to tamp down the ashes. To this day, the town shield depicts a phoenix rising from the ashes. Rowans or mountain ashes have leaves and buds superficially similar to those of true ashes but belong to the unrelated genus Sorbus in the rose family. On 19 September, at a crowded memorial service, his ashes were interred near the burial plots of Purcell and Stanford in the north choir aisle of Westminster Abbey. Bonham was cremated on 10 October 1980, and his ashes were buried in the graveyard of St Michael's Church in Rushock near Droitwich, Worcestershire. His ashes were scattered in the rose garden of his home, where those of his companion of forty years, Martin Hensler, were sprinkled after his death the previous year. For each ten churches burned to ashes, one heathen hof is avenged. The wild vegetation is cut and burned, and ashes are used as fertilizers. At the same time, the ashes of the Queen Mother's daughter, Princess Margaret, who had died on 9 February 2002, were also interred in a private family service. Bligh was presented with an urn that contained some ashes, which have variously been said to be of a bail, ball or even a woman's veil and so The Ashes was born. Saint Piran is supposed to have adopted these two colours from seeing the white tin in the black coals and ashes during his supposed discovery of tin. Such type of soil is very convenient for viniculture, just like the Katanasoil which is covered with ashes and where the best wines are still produced abundantly. He had won the long game and success had turned to ashes in his mouth. It is testament to the high regard that many walkers have for Great Gable that the summit has become a popular site for the scattering of ashes following cremation. This fame is partly due to the writings of Alfred Wainwright, who espoused its attractions and chose it as the place where he wanted his ashes scattered. For the New Critics, literature's auratic renewal from the ashes of language would allow the poem to remain inviolate despite the critic's practice of violation. The original plan had been to keep his parents' ashes together, but after Florence Stoker's death, her ashes were scattered at the Gardens of Rest. These laws include that all the dead are to be burned on a pyre on a burial mound with their possessions, and their ashes are to be brought out to sea or buried in the earth. Turing's ashes were scattered there, just as his father's had been. Show More Sentences Jardine was born in British India, brought up in St Andrews, spent most of his life in England, died in Switzerland and his ashes were scattered in Perthshire. I still get beautiful ladies to haul my ashes when my old balls get heavy. In 1428, at the command of Pope Martin V, Wycliffe's remains were dug up, burned, and the ashes cast into the River Swift, which flows through Lutterworth. Soda ash was used since ancient times in the production of glass, textile, soap, and paper, and the source of the potash had traditionally been wood ashes in Western Europe. But many volcanoes stand near the sea, and the ashes cast out by them are mingled with the sediments that are gathering at the bottom of the waters. Following his cremation, his ashes were laid to rest below the Battle of Britain Memorial Window in the Royal Air Force chapel at Westminster Abbey. In 1837, Atlanta was founded at the intersection of two railroad lines, and the city rose from the ashes of the American Civil War to become a national center of commerce. Cancer fluviatilis, River crabfish, The ashes of these fishes are of wonderfull vertue, by the propertie of their substance, against the biting of a mad dogge. Processions were banned and ashes and palms were prohibited. His widow, Glenda, bequeathed his ashes to the city of Swansea. The urn containing his ashes was eventually removed to a closet. He is afraid, that this Doctrine of fasting, and mourning, and tears, and humicubation, and sackcloth, and ashes, pertaineth to the establishment of Romish pennance. Examples from Classical Literature Lastly, you can water the field with oil of coal, or sprinkle it with ashes of boxwood. An inscription states that the ashes of his wife are likewise reposited there, in a bread-basket. Heat the file in the forge fire to draw the temper and anneal it by covering it with ashes. All about the burning ghat where the poor dead are being reduced to ashes hundreds are bathing or washing their clothes. The ashman was raising a can of ashes above his head to dump the contents into his cart, when the bottom of the can came out. It was feared that their principles might contaminate the ashes of the just. The golden shells at the four corners contained the charoseth, the bitter herbs, the egg roasted in ashes, and the salt water. There will be a damper in the hearth to let the ashes down into the ash-pit. Mrs. Dakin, going up her yard, spied Mrs. Morel taking the ashes to the ash-pit. Here, upon the ancestral ashes cemented with the glorious blood poured out like water on the plains of chickabiddy Lick. Always one contender driven to the wall, his cities turned to ashes, his lands laid waste. We have all so much reason to abase ourselves, and repent in dust and ashes! The cinerary urns found in Berkshire undoubtedly contain the ashes of the Anglians who came south under Penda in the 7th century. A third urn was found a few feet from the cist, filled, like the two others, with ashes and half-burnt bones. De moon was on de wane, an' jus 'as Mistis was bawn de wind come down de chimbley an' blew de ashes out on de hearth. One of these was an Indian clambake, neatly paved and piled with ashes and unopened clam shells. The ashes of Pompey were carried to Cornelia, who buried them in his lands near alba. Wash irons frequently, and rub with sand soap, Dutch cleanser, ashes or salt to polish them. Morgan knocked the ashes out of his short, clubby little pipe, put it in his shirt pocket behind his badge, and went on. The lavas and ashes ejected by these volcanoes consist of liparite, dacite, andesite and basalt. Show More Sentences After two or three hours we reached the bottom of the cone of rocks and ashes. After planting, the pots may be watered and placed in a cold frame, plunged in cocoa fibre or ashes. The tuff which envelops the buildings consists of comminuted volcanic ashes, mixed with pumice. In the Breidden district are the barren Criggeon shales with ashes and flows of andesite. They make little fires during the day, sleeping at night among the warm ashes, with which they besmear their bodies. The ashes of the furnace became a small dust in all the land of Egypt, breaking forth with blains upon man and beast. Did two handfuls of ashes literally become the blains upon the bodies of all the Egyptians? Then she had ordered blin to clean it, which the latter did, scrubbing it out with sand and ashes. He hit it against the andiron to knock the ashes off, and plunged it into the mixture. He lay on a box bed filled with ashes with his clothes on and in his hair shirt. Yes, my father, there I lay, and on me were the ashes, and among the ashes were the bones. To this a handful of ashes and plaster may be advantageously added. The ashcake was soon spread upon the hearth and covered with hot ashes. My poor boy, he who is sitting in sackcloth and ashes needs no jester. What mattered it that the honey of it was as ashes in her mouth? The Old Map knocked the ashes out of his pipe and went in to look at him. He flicked the ashes from his cigar, nursing his knee with the other hand. I carried the rod below, to dry it, and covered the lower part with ashes. Cagliostro looked with horror upon the ashes of the bacchante. In banffshire the peat fires are covered with ashes and smoothed down. Show More Sentences The growing piles of ashes and cinders in the back yards were the only evidence that the wasteful, consuming process of life went on at all. Wattles are usually the first plants to rise from the ashes of bushfires and provide protection for other seedlings. A bare lopsided weatherbeaten pole was planted in the ashes there, and had been there many a year. He stirred the smoldering ashes till the broiled fowl began to sizzle afresh. Here all is literal, even to the severed arm of Wolfe, and the urn which held the ashes of Queen Dido. In three hours nothing but calcined bones and ashes are left. Like his fellow, the Venerian fell to the floor, a heap of charred ashes. He sat up, and, removing his pipe, dashed the charred ashes from its bowl. Nothing was stirring except a brindled, grey cat, which crept from the ashes, and saluted me with a querulous mew. Every incoming locomotive deposited its ashes on the cinder path. While she spake, the ashes of claes beat upon the breast of Ulenspiegel. A clasp knife, much discoloured, was found in the ashes of the fire. And the cook said, 'Yes, you may go, but be back again in half an hour's time, to rake out the ashes. Had the apples of Sodom turned to ashes in my mouth, I could not have felt a more startling revulsion. In the centre, crouched before a slow-smoking fire, in the littered ashes of a thousand fires, was an old man who blinked apathetically at the invaders. Jackson's last cone of ashes dropped into the brass ashtray at his elbow. It should have made him feel that England's triumph and increased dominion could not compensate to mankind nor atone to Heaven for the ashes of a single Acadian cottage. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of ashes? Words that rhyme with ashes What is the adverb for ashes? What is the adjective for ashes? What is the noun for ashes? Translations for ashes Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words Asher asher ashen-faced ashen Ashe Ashdown Ashes as he sees fit ashet ashets Asheville ashfall 5-letter Words Starting With a as ash ashe