But did the Passendales' little gray cottage still belong to the Passendales?
The move became permanent, and it was there, in her family's weathered gray A-frame cottage, that she finished her first novel, "The Living Is Easy," published in 1948.
On either side of the walkway are six gray cottages, and at the end is a final sculpture depicting the Resurrection.
The old man pointed to a small gray cottage at the end of the street.
I was driving home in the late afternoon past the row of grey cottages at the end of the Houlton Road when a woman ran waving into the road.
"No shirts off," an officer said casually from the deck of headquarters, a gray shingled cottage like any other on Fire Island.
At Womencrafts - a small, unassuming gray cottage in the heart of Provincetown that sells jewelry, books, music and gifts by women - girls rule, as one T-shirt says.
It stood in front of an old grey cottage which the Molesworths had bought in order to acquire the land whereon they could erect their dream home.
The small gray cottage was built in 1846, and was acquired by the Berry family in 1928.
Ahead lay sparse grass and scrub blueberry bushes, and beyond them the naked rock of the crag and the thin peak of the dreaded gray cottage.