Sentence examples for a burning pyre from inspiring English sources

They blend, or rather create a burning pyre out of, girl-group pop and shoegazing guitar noise.

Tourists also frequent the quaint and ancient city, where Nimrod is said to have hurled Abraham onto a burning pyre and where boutique hotels tucked in teeming bazaars offer glimpses of a bygone past.

Hiranyakashipu challenged Prahlada to sit on a burning pyre with his aunt Holika, who was gifted with immunity to fire.

Holika, the evil aunt, had the power to survive fire and stepped into a burning pyre with young Prahlad to destroy the disobedient prince.

Sita enters a burning pyre declaring that if she has been faithful to Rama let the fire not harm her; she comes out unscathed with the fire-god Agni as proof of her purity.

Oh, and by rescuing John – dramatically and terrifyingly – from the middle of a huge burning pyre.

That, I think, was the final straw in a huge burning pyre of final straws".

Depending upon the theatrical version or the original, she either stabs herself, falls on a burning funeral pyre or dies of a broken heart, but this is opera so you know that at the end of it the soprano's got to die.

Another memorable narrative is the story of the miraculous rescue of Croesus from the burning pyre (ode 3).

But nemesis awaits – and at the top of the bank, I am building a very big bonfire and, when the wind is in the right direction, I shall set fire to it and dance with joy around the burning pyre.

The Roman poet was singing a founding myth for his great empire, tracing its origins back to the Trojans who, vanquished by the perfidious Greeks, rose from their burning pyre to military supremacy and unrivaled power in the shape of Rome.