With a broom from the corner, she swept the dead ashes back into the hearth.

I saw hope and courage rekindled from dead, cold ashes.

Is the body indeed to be made like a withered tree and the mind like dead ashes?

When I am dead ashes at your feet, consider only this.

There was not even a flicker of life in the dead ashes of my hopes.

The violence that followed left more than 200 Sinhalese dead and villages in ashes.

She walked round the dead ashes of the fire, picking them up.

Without answer, Kane brushed by him, stepping over the dead ashes of their fire.

I knew then that this was a city of the dead ashes of human hopes.

He spat the liquor into the dead ashes in the fireplace.