On the wall, defaced by scrawlings of every sort, mostly vulgar, he found what he sought: "Killroy was here."

He used his cigarette lighter to see along a wall defaced with curses, threats and crude anatomy.

The small shops and buildings were crowded together, their walls cracked and defaced.

"Graffiti," somewhat true to its name, has a human wall defaced with paint: a male dancer eventually soaked in bloody red liquid by a woman who has traced lines on his body.

The painting depicts a young African American girl, Ruby Bridges, flanked by white federal marshals, walking to school past a wall defaced by racist graffiti.

The demonstrators have turned into trespassers; and windows are broken, walls defaced with obscene slogans, that sort of thing.