ashes

"If the telegram mean anything," he wrote, "it means that the fragments of the torn letter have been cast into the housemaid's bucket (along with the dust, the ashes, and the rest of the litter in the room), and have been emptied on the dust-heap at Gleninch.

I passed through the fence; there within were the ashes of the burnt huts--they lay ankle-deep.

So when in tears The love of years Is wasted like the snow, And the fine fibrils of its life By the rude wrong of instant strife Are broken at a blow Within the heart Do springs upstart Of which it doth now know, And strange, sweet dreams, Like silent streams That from new fountains overflow, With the earlier tide Of rivers glide Deep in the heart whose hope has died-- Quenching the fires its ashes hide,-- Its ashes, whence will spring and grow Sweet flowers, ere long, The rare and radiant flowers of song!

You were going to sleep upon cold bricks; I can give you a bed of warm ashes --nothing better.'

of all this fiery life of thine, what will at length remain but one little heap of ashes! Aye, cried Stubb, but sea-coal ashes --mind ye that, Mr.

Out of mine own ashes and glow it came unto me, that phantom.

Her betrothed only replied, 'You must come and see me next Sunday; I have already invited guests for that day, and that you may not mistake the way, I will strew ashes along the path.'

the ashes, Southern style, Hot light-bread, Southern style.

(There is nothing to be alarmed at, Magdalen; I assure you there is nothing to be alarmed at!) At any rate, it was a strange, three-legged thing, which supported a great panful of charcoal ashes at the top.

thought I, ha, as the flying particles almost choked me, are these ashes from that destroyed city, Gomorrah?

On a low stool by the hearthside, the only article of furniture in the place, sat his mother, staring into a fireplace strewn with blackened embers and cold ashes. He spoke to her--tenderly, interrogatively, and with hesitation, but she neither answered, nor moved, nor seemed in any way surprised.

In this Chapel is a marble chest, in which, they told us, were the ashes of St.