He was buried in a concrete tomb on the island of Estero, and a violent hurricane carried his tomb off in 1921.

Just as her mother had been, when they'd buried her alive in a dark, concrete tomb and left her to die there.

But a city engineer clarified that the bodies would be given a dignified resting place in two large concrete tombs.

Teed's followers buried their beloved leader in a concrete tomb on Estero Island, off the Gulf Coast.

By the time the car was excavated in 2007, the concrete tomb had leaked so that the car's engine had become a pile of rust.

The bodies were carried to a new cemetery and buried in a single row, the two girls in the same concrete tomb as their mother, Manal, 25.

The new grave looked mighty little among the old coffin-sized concrete tombs, but it was still respectable and even fine.

They spent the first decade we lived in Seattle at the bottom, cheered on by a few half-hearted fans in the concrete tomb of the Kingdome.

Belmarsh security unit in England, which I visited recently, is a virtual concrete tomb in which prisoners are incarcerated for long periods of time.

Hardest to bear as the days pass is the sense that those who were trapped alive by the quake died because there was no way to pull them promptly from their concrete tombs.