Sentence examples for a pyre from inspiring English sources

They should also cut off their right arms and throw them on a pyre.

Then both dancers stretched out motionless and this altar increasingly became reminiscent of a pyre.

They had fallen foul of the cultural revolution, and were on their way to a pyre.

Mrs Gandhi lay before them on a pyre, her tiny form wrapped in a plain white shroud.

Enticed into surrendering by the promise that their followers would be spared, the Cathars were burned alive on a pyre.

Working in velvety gray tones, Wright plays variations on a theme, piling flowers as if on a pyre or photographing them, full-blown, one at a time.

If you passed, you got to live, and if you failed you were burned alive on a pyre that's now the Transgender Studies Building.

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.

Quetzalcóatl wandered down to the coast of the "divine water" (the Atlantic Ocean) and then immolated himself on a pyre, emerging as the planet Venus.

Fate did not offer it to Anselm Kiefer when he stumbled from the sky upon a classical idyll with indifferent youth cavorting round a pyre of burning meat.

("Father, what are you doing? You're hurting me, Father!" a floppy-haired Isaac implores Abraham, from atop a pyre. Cut to Sarah wailing).