Sentence examples for a pyre of from inspiring English sources

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.

One by one, they sank to the ground through sheer exhaustion and then died in a pyre of smoke and flame.

Further along the road, they build a pyre of planks seized inside their land, douse it with gasoline and then watch it burn.

Then it was into the oven, where a pyre of wood had been blazing for two hours, bringing the temperature to about 800 degrees.

As a child he erected a pyre of wood and stone and bone, creating a burning alter before which he and his sister prayed to Wotan, the god of thunder.

In a statement in June, she returned to her earlier version of a pyre of artworks in the bathroom stove but on Monday, she told a panel of three judges in a Bucharest courtroom: "I did not burn them".

That you have even uttered the word C-r-o-c-s in my presence proves that, while you may have – and I am kindly giving you the benefit of my benevolent doubt – made a pyre out of your trousers, your mentality remains the same, namely, that children's clothes are acceptable for adults.

Cartel members said they incinerated all 43 bodies at the same time on a pyre made of wood and tires.

Off-line, taking some downtime from infosurfing the Internet, I make a backyard pyre of the inert objects on my bookshelves.

He used to work at the New York Coffee, Sugar and Cocoa Exchange at 4 World Trade Center, but that is a smoking pyre of scrap metal.

In directing Saint Joan - last seen at the National more than 20 years ago - Marianne Elliott risked immolating her soaring reputation on a Shavian pyre of facetiousness and garrulity.