The quotes, like "Let me borrow your works," and, "It won't happen to me," are in yellow letters on gray tombstones.

"They found Martin last week, too, you know," Civil said, looking at the gray tombstone.

A scattering of gray tombstones poked through the snow.

The man flinched but was unable to look away from the gray tombstones of Baibakov's eyes.

From an airplane, the high-rise buildings of affluent Sao Paulo spread below like gray and white tombstones.

In the distance the tenement buildings seemed to be standing at odd angles, like crooked rows of gray tombstones.

Near the fresh dirt is a gray tombstone, put there about 15 years ago by the International Veteran Boxers Association.

By September 2009 the government had replaced 2,000 graves with plain gray tombstones and grassy mounds.

A cemetery official discovered the scrawls early this morning, spray-painted in neon orange on the gray, white and beige tombstones and other monuments marking family plots.

But his ashes were buried on the hill that rises behind the vineyard, to mark the place he most cared about, and farm workers still tend his grave, a simple gray tombstone.