She came in late the following morning, her face the color of ashes.

They always sent back a little box of ashes, and it was full every time.

She spoke as if her mouth were full of ashes.

He could see something ahead, dark, like a small pile of ashes.

The knowledge was the taste of ashes in her mouth.

They were no more than a pile of ashes now.

She took another step, and almost walked into a column of ashes.

The house stood alone in a city of rubble and ashes.

Some still hadn't taken their eyes off the pile of ashes at Jack's feet.

He looked from the picture to the pile of ashes.