What is "ashville"

Usage examples of "ashville".

Germaine Ashville, having done her part by giving her sister-in-law a facial with almost pure ethylhexanediol, and pouring two full quarts of it into her bubble bath, and even spiking all her colognes and perfumes with the same popular odorless insect repellent, was already boarding a plane to Denver with her brother, and the Saint was seeing them off.

Not that there was anything actively poisonous or even especially deleterious about the pills and potions put out by the Ashville Pharmacal factorythe Food and Drug Administration would have seen to that, even without the help of Mr Ashville's unreconstructed consciencebut neither would they do anyone much good, other than psychologically.

When even the diffident Mr Ashville rebelled against being thus publicly cuckolded, at least by inference, and suggested a divorce, she obliged him promptly.

It was only then that he was reminded, by coldly practical lawyers, that she owned outright the controlling percentage of stock in Ashville Pharmacal Products, which had been founded almost indulgently as a toy for her to play with, that he had even laughingly signed a document that she brought him in the early days specifically declaring that he did not in any way regard it as community property, and that the most he could claim from the Corporation, aside from his rights as the personal holder of one paid-up share, would be the few hundred dollars he had advanced to get it started.

We sent someone out to check on it today, and Ashville begged him to drop it.

Elise Ashville was too palpably charged with corpuscles and vitamins for that role, and she had not even conceded to the diaphanous nglige which any writer of a certain modern school would have considered a formal necessity for such an occasion.

Since Ashville himself was so definite about not wanting the story printed, I decided to drop it.

I went to her apartment, and I know she was in, because the maid took my name, but she came back and said Mrs Ashville was not at home.

Beyond any doubt he had the kind of presence and personality she had sometimes dreamed of, but she had not created and become the queenpin of Ashville Pharmacal Products merely by dreaming.

Now, this was the South, all right, but Ashville was high in the Smokies and the only way out that didn't mean mountains and snow and ice for sure was east.