Having a funeral pyre was an important custom of many cultures of the world. From LearnThat.org.
A great funeral pyre is built and set ablaze, while his many followers watch. From Wordnik.com. [“Beowulf: A New Verse Translation” by Seamus Heaney (Norton, 2000) « The BookBanter Blog] Reference
The pyre was a single torch burning to its socket, by whose light I saw his face alone. From Wordnik.com. [The Persian Boy]
The pyre is the most spectacular of dozens of temporary funeral buildings at the site, a. From Wordnik.com. [Channel NewsAsia Front Page News] Reference
The coffin is placed on the pyre, which is lighted by relatives, the occasion being considered one for rejoicing rather than mourning. From Wordnik.com. [Where the Strange Trails Go Down Sulu, Borneo, Celebes, Bali, Java, Sumatra, Straits Settlements, Malay States, Siam, Cambodia, Annam, Cochin-China] Reference
The bedroom was an inferno now, the bed like a kind of pyre in the centre of it. From Wordnik.com. [Strip Jack]
And with the third mention of the word "pyre," David's legs went weak and something seemed to catch in his throat. From Wordnik.com. [David and the Phoenix] Reference
Then the pyre was built and the body laid upon it. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"] Reference
To build a pyre and make your comrades ready for the urn. From Wordnik.com. [Lysistrata] Reference
Was it this thy pyre, ah me, this thine altar fires meant?. From Wordnik.com. [The Aeneid of Virgil] Reference
He has made its pyre deep and large with fire and much wood. From Wordnik.com. [The World English Bible (WEB):] Reference
Pile and burn them all together in one vast and righteous pyre. From Wordnik.com. [Lysistrata] Reference
And from the ruins of the pyre stepped forth a magnificent bird. From Wordnik.com. [David and the Phoenix] Reference
Phyllis dropped down in front of this door and made her second pyre. From Wordnik.com. [Madge Morton's Secret] Reference
Behind him he heard the sticks snapping as the Phoenix mounted its pyre. From Wordnik.com. [David and the Phoenix] Reference
Then he looked at the orange glow that marked the funeral pyre of the ship. From Wordnik.com. [The Quantum Jump] Reference
"The traditional cinnamon pyre of the Phoenix, celebrated in song and story.". From Wordnik.com. [David and the Phoenix] Reference
The funeral pyre of Mahatma Gandhi burning during his funeral, February 10, 1948. From Wordnik.com. [A Journey Through History] Reference
Nanahuatl, the leprous, and building a pyre, the victim threw himself in its midst. From Wordnik.com. [Moon Lore] Reference
Carefully avoiding the sight of the pyre, David crawled to the edge and glanced over. From Wordnik.com. [David and the Phoenix] Reference
At the pyre the widow breaks her bangles and throws her glass beads on to her husband's body. From Wordnik.com. [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II] Reference
One morning at 5: 30, crew members straggle up a rocky hill to shoot a funeral-pyre scene at dawn. From Wordnik.com. [A Star's Trek] Reference
If McVeigh's wish is for publicity and martyrdom, the FBI has inadvertently added fuel to the pyre. From Wordnik.com. [Waiting For Justice] Reference
These he arranged methodically on the cleared space; on the top of the tiny pyre he placed the troutlet. From Wordnik.com. [Uncanny Tales] Reference
Crews of students work around the clock during November's "push" week, erecting a 55-foot pyre of logs to set ablaze. From Wordnik.com. [Toppled Tower] Reference
The burning house was the funeral pyre from which the loving spirit of Mrs. Senseman took its flight to eternal rest. From Wordnik.com. [Woman on the American Frontier] Reference
Pigs for-age freely at the waterfront for garbage and funeral-pyre leftovers (open fires make imperfect incinerators). From Wordnik.com. [A Deadly Passage To India] Reference
Especially in my deft evasion of soft-boiled fascists that make a pyre of the many boxes of my glorious ultra-poltroonage!. From Wordnik.com. [Excerpt from Urdoxa 2.0] Reference
Maybe we'll burn in the same pyre and never return like some crazy Phoenix ascending, yearning for another chance at life. From Wordnik.com. [Winter Kills] Reference
Kok had once told friends and family on his death his last wish was to be cremated on a pyre-like wood fire in the park he loved. From Wordnik.com. [Steve Kok, Zimbabwean Conservationist, Killed By Wounded Buffalo] Reference
Then the body is transferred to the pyre, and the torch is applied by one of the family, the others sitting solemnly around in a circle. From Wordnik.com. [Travels in the Far East] Reference
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