233 examples of pyre in sentences

PUNCHINELLO listens in vain for the swan song of SUMNER, and looks longingly, without being gratified by the spectacle of the oratorical funeral pyre of NYE.

Shelley's body was on a funeral pyre.

These did not have to submit to torture, and as corpses had the burning ships for their funeral pyre.

He waited, therefore till time had laid its healing hand upon her sorrows, especially because he found no precedent for one in his position condoling with others when he himself seemed more in need of consolation, and because something new and admirable would be required of a man who, as it were, raised his head from the funeral pyre to console his friends.

There it was placed on the funeral pyre; and the knights and all the army circled round it in solemn procession.

That night, however, he was blissful with ignorance, and having made a pyre of his bookish tormentors, he fell in with the jollity of the others.

During ascent you are shown the impressions of the hands of the fifteen wives of one of the rajahs who were all burned in one grand holocaust upon his funeral pyre.

But no matter how many times a rajah went to the matrimonial altar, every wife that outlived him was burned upon his funeral pyre in order that he might enjoy her society in the other world.

Though no excuse could be offered for the slaying of their own clansman except the direful hold of religion, which in Tahiti, as in Europe not so long ago, put Protestant and Catholic on the pyre in the name of Christ, yet so soft-hearted were these people that they could not disturb the peace of mind of the offering, and until the moment when he was struck down from behind he was as unconcerned as any one.

The progressives won, and convinced the enemy that Tané was a wretched puppet of the priests, so that they dragged the god from his lofty house, and kicked him on to his funeral pyre.

But the black man could see the funeral pyre; the distant glare of it was showing the whites of his eyes faintly to the master, when suddenly he stopped rowing.

By Oscar James Campbell, Hardin Craig, J. F. A. Pyre & Joseph M. Thomas.

Oscar James Campbell & Hardin Craig (A), Jackman Pyre, Augustin Pyre & Frederick W. Thomas (C); 15Nov65; R373589-373590.

Oscar James Campbell & Hardin Craig (A), Jackman Pyre, Augustin Pyre & Frederick W. Thomas (C); 15Nov65; R373589-373590.

Edited by O.J. Campbell, Hardin Craig, J.F. Pyre & J.M. Thomas.

Oscar James Campbell & Hardin Craig (A) Augustin Pyre, Jackman Pyre & Frederick W. Thomas (C); 19Sep66; R393580.

Oscar James Campbell & Hardin Craig (A) Augustin Pyre, Jackman Pyre & Frederick W. Thomas (C); 19Sep66; R393580.

Then the women of the city, with the noble Padmani at their head, accepted the Johur; "the funeral pyre being lighted within the great subterranean retreat," they steadfastly marched into the living grave rather than yield themselves to the will of the conqueror.

His shall he a noble pyre!

Garlands fling upon the fire, His shall be a noble pyre!

And I shall either take poison or hang myself, either enter the pyre or kill myself with my own weapons.

If Naishadha with voice deep as that of the clouds doth not come to me today, I shall enter into a pyre of golden brilliance.

Arjuna recovers the bodies of Krishna and Balarama and places them on a funeral pyre.

I have never wondered since that the Chinese women allow their daughters' feet to be encased in iron shoes, nor that the Hindoo widows walk calmly to the funeral pyre; for great are the penalties of those who dare resist the behests of the tyrant Custom.

From our standpoint we would honor any Chinese woman who claimed the right to her feet and powers of locomotion; the Hindoo widows who refused to ascend the funeral pyre of their husbands; the Turkish women who threw off their masks and veils and left the harem; the Mormon women who abjured their faith and demanded monogamic relations.

233 examples of  pyre  in sentences