Lexicographical Neighbors of Ashmen
Literary usage of Ashmen
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Annals of Philadelphia and Pennsylvania, in the Olden Time: Being a by John Fanning Watson (1870)
"John ashmen, demands eight hundred pounds of tobacco, for his surveying fees for
... John ashmen, claims a bill debt of twelve hundred and fifty pounds of ..."
2. City Government in the United States: With a Chapter on the Greater New York by Alfred Ronald Conkling (1899)
"The ashmen receive higher compensation than is paid for corresponding manual work
in private life, and it is not too much to ask them to come within the ..."
3. Street-cleaning and the Disposal of a City's Wastes: Methods and Results and by George Edwin Waring (1897)
"How much is expended in fees to public ashmen we cannot state, and it is even
possible that householders sometimes mistake the public ashman for one ..."
4. History of the German People from the First Authentic Annals to the Present by Charles Francis Horne, Edward Sylvester Ellis (1916)
"There was better success in fighting the "ashmen," that is, the Vikings of all
three North German nations. Owing to the fact that in their own language ..."
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