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Sentence Examples On Wednesday, her body was cremated on a funeral pyre at a Buddhist temple, while her husband Josef watched silently. The most effective of the photographs is Gandhi's reflective and praying mood, beside the burning pyre of his wife. Following this the proud king abdicated his throne to his son Anandapala and committed suicide by climbing onto his own funeral pyre. As the torch was applied to the base of the pyre, men in the surrounding crowd cast their adornments into the flames. All of the preserved skeletal material was recovered from the burial amphora itself and not from the associated pyre deposits. Let these wives first step into the pyre, tearless without any affliction and well adorned. It has the one baht coin from the Paris mint set in it, and the plaque shows the funeral pyre. Watched by thousands, almost 5,000 weapons were flattened by a steamroller or burnt in a pyre. I let out a strangled gasp, recoiling from the corpse on the pyre as if its cold skin had burned my fingers. In the dark we went past a burning pyre only yards from the hedge separating the road and the field. This girl was blazing like a pyre of psymantic energy, with waves of blue and white constantly washing over her. According to Mr Tobin, a Council overseer spotted the black plumes of polluting smoke from the burning pyre. The best of helmets, gold and mail are placed on the pyre, and the fire grows, enveloping the great King. After a time, only one Sathe was left standing by the pyre that blazed in the circle. No convincing pyre sites were found, possibly because of the way the site was dug. In the old orthodox society the Sati system of widows mounting the funeral pyre of their husbands was an atrocious practice. He emerged in the open space where the tall pyre still burnt for the Lord of Fire and the statues still gouted irregular jets of flame. We had 450 sheep, 20 tups and 150 cattle culled and lying in a shed for 10 days before they could go on the pyre. A single figure stepped toward the pyre and a mournful cry of loss and sorrow tore up into the night. He is cast or casts himself on a pyre, but is miraculously saved by Apollo and translated to the land of the Hyperboreans. Show More Sentences The body is cremated on a funeral pyre to signify the termination of the individual's existence as a material being. A fire in the distance could only mean that another man had seen their pyre. This last one is washed one last time in the Ganga before being place on the pyre. The market crowd, an estimated 500 people, thronged together, arrested the guilty party and burned him on a hastily assembled pyre. Members of the family then left the burning pyre to go home and bathe. Mondo then cast a Fire spell and allowed the blaze to consume the pyre. Thrown into the Middle East pyre, the Zionism-racism charge has been an accelerant, angering, alienating, polarizing both sides. The legs were also placed along the limbs of the corpse and all covered with the skin before mantras and oblations were made and the funeral pyre set alight. A British district officer, coming upon a scene of suttee, was told by the locals that in Hindu culture it was the custom to cremate a widow on her husband's funeral pyre. Female infanticide was common, and the practice of sati, the immolation of the wife on her husband's funeral pyre, was encouraged, sometimes even forced. They built a pyre on a great ship and sent it burning into the sea. It begins with a grieving boy beside his father's funeral pyre, who is claimed by a worryingly uncouth uncle and taken away to a grim new life of servitude. The body of Hephaestion was embalmed and carried on to Babylon to be burned on a funeral pyre in a funeral on which he planned to spend astronomical sums. The product of cremation is not ashes in the sense of a powder, but fragments of bone, whose size is determined by the temperature of the cremator or pyre. For those who were burned, it was considered a high religious duty to set fire to the pyre, and it was often carried out by visiting Princes. For many years women were not allowed to follow the cortege, and only the wives of Brahmans could walk around the pyre. The martyrdom ends in the next scene with the cadavers being thrown onto the pyre in the presence of the Emperor who is at last pacified. He took up the matka, a clay pot of water, as well as a lighted torch, and walked seven times around the pyre. Death will also be mentioned at the place where the funeral pyre used to stand. The legend tells how, after the death of Buddha, his body was cremated on a pyre of sandalwood and that his left canine tooth was recovered by Arahat Khema. Show More Sentences Did his White House masters tell him to make a better show of representing the public interest? In this section Harvey Pitt fights back On to the pyre A murky sort of pond life Nationalised once, nationalised again? Both cremations and inhumations were provided with pyre or grave goods, and some of the burials were richly furnished. There was nobody to take him to the funeral pyre and burn him. Here, the loveful mourning that casts the prized possessions of the dead upon the pyre? Disgracefully, the passionate Sovereign instead of burning in that funeral pyre the remains of this illustrious Trojan man, resolved to immolate herself into that fire in a sudden blaze of madness. First, the big burnt offering to Zeus by the sanctuary officials was made — a hundred oxen were slaughtered, and their thighs were burned on a pyre. In Alz, the chariot had been placed on the pyre, pieces of bone are attached to the partially melted metal of the axles. After hearing this sermon, Mr Aziz's followers, allegedly more than 10,000 bearded males and burqa-clad females, set fire in the street to a pyre of music videos and CDs extracted from local traders. Burnt animal bones are often found, they may have been placed on the pyre as food. He's tasked with defending her royal personage and not wigging out when she emerges from a funeral pyre naked with baby dragons crawling over her shoulder. Spectators took photographs of the pyre on their mobile phones. The dead would then arrive in Valhalla with everything that one had on their pyre, and whatever one had hidden in the ground. I was genuinely moved as Jon built his funeral pyre for Ygritte. Hephaestion's death devastated Alexander, and he ordered the preparation of an expensive funeral pyre in Babylon, as well as a decree for public mourning. He burns himself alive on a pyre, nearly taking his son Faramir with him. When word of his aspirations to make himself king reached the Helvetii, Orgetorix was summoned to stand trial, facing execution on the pyre should he be found guilty. A Granthi recited prayers at the cremation ground before the pyre was lit. The family had preserved the story that when Shelley's body had been burned, his friend Edward Trelawny had snatched the whole heart from the pyre. These laws include that all the dead are to be burned on a pyre on a burial mound with their possessions, and their ashes are to be brought out to sea or buried in the earth. Examples from Classical Literature The performer of the crematory rites carries an earthen pot round the pyre. He looked down at their inert, but titanically powerful enemy whose baleful glow seemed even now to be burning their funeral pyre. And yet, when it came to the point, Max hesitated to give the order to fire the pyre. The old system of sati, whereby a woman immolated herself on the funeral pyre of her dead husband, what was it? The fanes symbolize the funeral pyre, for whoever enters the nether world must scorn the fear of death. Surely it is the smoke of the pyre on which the martyrs have but now perished! Shall it reduce all to ashes, and hope to rise like the phenix from the pyre? The pyre became wrapped in flames, the Warlock began to burn. And from the ruins of the pyre stepped forth a magnificent bird. Their malice aforethought risks enkindling Syria's pyre, fuel for the smouldering inferno whether or not they press the trigger. A little sandalwood and cuscus roots are sometimes added to the pyre. A plantain is planted in the trench that was dug near the pyre. The Figures stooped, lifted the Hive and shook it upside down over the pyre. And he knew that blit in truth lay on her pyre on the Tigress's deck. The pyre of a man is fired at the head and of a woman at the foot. The funeral pyre is generally prepared by an Oriya washerman. Better death on the pyre than a future like that of a pariah dog. Envious Apollo killed Coronis but then snatched unborn Asclepius from the funeral pyre. Vali's corpse is borne aloft by fellow monkeys in a palanquin which is then placed on the funeral pyre and set alight. Hunt caused a huge pyre of pine wood to be made, which soon sent up a great column of flame that might be seen far and wide over the prairies. Show More Sentences Phyllis dropped down in front of this door and made her second pyre. But I do not altogether like the idea of building his pyre just here. Behind him he heard the sticks snapping as the Phoenix mounted its pyre. In the morning I would gather some provisions in the dingey, and after setting fire to the pyre before me, push out into the desolation of the high sea once more. A graceful cradle of willow, with all its dainty furbishings, was laid upon the pyre, which had already been fed with the richness of a priceless layette. Find more words! 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