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"We found one to two feet of silt and mud that would be removed to expose the gravel," Johnson said.

The volcano has entombed their graves in a sepulcher of ash and rock.

On that Sunday afternoon, as we hoisted his casket into a rocky grave, the words of the burial rites were drowned out by the hum of a backhoe, its black diesel smoke chasing mourners from the hilly grave site.

Comets are largely water ice mixed with dust and gravelly dirt.

He nodded, gravely.

She'd seen the list--ocotillo, monkey flower, brittlebush, gravel from an arroyo behind A Mountain--his handwriting square and tight, as if written with a chisel.

Load after load, he was shoveling out gravel, carrying it to a pile near the walk leading to the Judge's front door.

The shovel jerked now, a handful of gravel spilling.

More gravel fell.

She would then go into her studio (a room to which Carter was never admitted). At times she would emerge to eat a piece of fruit, heat some soup, or, less frequently, go out for a short walk along the graveled paths of old Chapel Hill.

Billy's mouth went dry as they approached the gravelled forecourt where a fountain topped by a Cupid figure, standing with his bow drawn, sprayed silvery water into the bright sunlit afternoon.

He liked to turn on the lighting system and see his tin-plate vessel from the highway, shining in the middle of that graveyard for demolished cars.

He spent his time chasing unreachable butterflies along the alleyways of the graveyard, or biting his own tail in comical whirlwinds.

Strike crossed the graveyard with his belly to the ground and reached the highway, determined to leave.

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