pyre in English

noun
1
a heap of combustible material, especially one for burning a corpse as part of a funeral ceremony.
We were almost fed up seeing all the corpses and pyres along the bank of the river.

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1. All the world's a pyre!

2. Pyre of the AmalgAmated One examined

3. Devour all on your deadly pyre!

4. The widow leapt into the funeral pyre.

5. The pyre stood ready on a hillock.

6. Ser Jorah, bind this woman to the pyre.

7. She rode around the blazing pyre.

8. 3 Devour all on your deadly pyre!

9. 1 The pyre stood ready on a hillock.

10. A huge blazing pyre lights up the landscape.

11. But as he watched the pyre, the archon softened.

12. But what if everything was burned on a pyre sixty years ago?

13. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows.

14. She crawled closer to the funeral pyre, rejoicing in its warmth, and slept.

15. Curs is one of the Races in the game Pyre

16. Finally, Holika, Prahlada's evil aunt, tricked him into sitting on a pyre with her.

17. The coffin was put on top of the pyre and the lid prised off.

18. Smoke from Scathach's pyre was black, rising high into the dusk.

19. The birds returned, invaded Bird Spirit Land and flocked and swarmed above the funeral pyre.

20. You don't understand- - don't ask me to stand aside as you climb on that pyre.

21. Let us build pyre and gather around imagined sands of storied arena.

22. The glow of a funeral pyre slowly dies by the silent river.

23. Trojans are now burning on the pyre because of one youthful indiscretion.

24. Blasphemous is only these things: all else is heresy, fit to be thrown on the pyre

25. As the pyre was kindled, on a rocky height above it a woman appeared.

26. Nine days they lamented him; then they laid him on a lofty pyre and set fire to it.

27. A special funeral pyre was built in the nearby woods to cremate deceased Hindu servicemen.

28. Specifically, it is believed that the northeastern pole of the pyre grew into this tree.

29. When fire starts consuming her body, dance as much as you can around her funeral pyre.

30. They held that a suicide should not be honored with a funeral pyre and urn-burial.

31. In some countries, including India and Nepal, Cremation on an open-air pyre is an ancient tradition

32. Croesus and 14 sons of the leading Lydians were placed on the pyre, chained to a post.

33. On top of the pyre is an effigy to signify Holika who tricked Prahalad into the fire.

34. Condemned to burn On the funeral pyre No room for trail Murder, murder, only thing to know.

35. He ordered those around him to build a great pyre on Mount Oeta and carry him to it.

36. The ashes of its funeral pyre shall be transmuted into swans, which will swim away upon dry land as though in water.

37. As I witnessed my father's body being swallowed by fire, I sat by his funeral pyre and wrote.

38. Then he built a funeral pyre, covered it with wildflowers, and burned the body of his respected teacher.

39. Thus it was that he burned himself on Jiang-qing's funeral pyre, and sent himself with her wherever it was she was going.

40. The sixty-five-year, old woman, Kuttu Bai, sat on the funeral pyre with the head of her dead husband on her lap.

41. Later there was Rajiv Gandhi, shimmering in the heat haze as he walked seven times around his mother's pyre.

42. In the past, human Ashes were created by burning the body of a deceased on an exposed wooden funeral pyre

43. Sucking in a deep lungful of smoke, he looked back at the fiercely blazing funeral pyre for the first time.

44. At night--"a grand display of pyre- the bigger ones (Avoirdupoisly speak- technics" at night, sir, if you please

45. 2 Some 7,000 miles [11,000 km] away, in Jamnagar, India, the eldest of three sons lights the wood on the cremation pyre for their deceased father.

46. The ancient custom called suttee, in which a widow voluntarily burned herself on her husband’s funeral pyre, was abolished under British rule.

47. "This is the funeral pyre for thought in America today, " Wayne told spectators outside his bookstore as he lit the first batch of books.

48. Barque : dark Hc / punk band from Lille (FR) our new EP "Pyre Builders" is available on our bigcartel (physical copies) on bandcamp,

49. First Known Use of Balefire before the 12th century, in the meaning defined above History and Etymology for Balefire Middle English, from Old English bǣlfȳr funeral fire, from bǣl pyre + fȳr fire

50. The Befouler Corruption of religious sites and relics 73: The Wells of Darkness (imprisoned); former rule of layer 21: The Sixth Pyre *MM2, Dragon #357, page 67