"Say this, and you might as well ask me to pour the blood and ashes of the city into the lake of women."

As it is, shall I not pour ashes upon my Head, gird me in Sackcloth, covering my Nothing and Despair under a Mountain of Cinders, and thus become a Monument to No-Ability for her sake?

Then Solandia got up, picked up a basket that was near the Ceremonial Hearth, and poured ashes and dirt on the flames in the round fireplace, killing the ceremonial fire and plunging them into near darkness.

When I think of us all back there on New Year's Eve, hoping and expecting so much, yet going through those fake confessionals, pouring ashes on our heads, and making believe we didn't really hope and expect..." She hesitated.

I suppose I should have rent my garments and poured ashes on my head and gone in to the security people to make confession, or something, but it didn't seem necessary.

'Sing I'm Sorry and pour ashes all over my head?'

But he had wailed and poured ashes over his head.

In singles and pairs, and then in greater numbers, the other villagers emerged from their hiding places and gathered before Aboli to kneel in obeisance and pour dust and ashes on their heads in reverence.

And Margaret Stone got some of her old faithful friends to force those three jokers to their knees and to pour dust and ashes over their heads.

She braided her daughter's long tresses, and bound the braids in a circle around her head, and poured ashes over them.