Sentence examples for cremating from inspiring English sources

But Jenkins said environmental regulations may have banned that and other practises, such as cremating young children, at the start or end of the day.

Found by the Stonehenge Riverside Project in 2009, it consisted of about 25 Welsh bluestones and may have been used for cremating and removing the flesh from the bodies whose remains were buried and scattered at Stonehenge.

This theory, without any ancient literary support, was based on similarities in customs and artifacts between the Villanovan and the Iron Age cremating cultures north of the Alps and on a dubious comparison of the name of the Rasenna with that of the Raeti, a people inhabiting the east-central Alps in the 5th century bce.

In other northern regions, one still finds the custom of cremating the cadaver and consuming the charred and crushed bones in a banana mush.

But the tears were not just reserved for the dragons; watching Jon Snow cremating Ygritte was equally as sad.

"The whole of the city centre was cordoned off while they were cremating the bodies, ten thousand at a time on the city square," Irving says, shaking his head.

Since the monk's initiation is held to entail the symbolic cremation of his body, he is not cremated at his death, as is done in the case of lay Hindus, but is interred or immersed in the river.

"The dead die hard," is how "Echo's Bones" begins, and here is Belacqua, "who now found himself up and about in the dust of the world, back at his old games on the dim spot"; "sat double on a fence like a casse-poitrine", smoking a Romeo and Juliet and wondering whether "if he had been cremated rather than inhumed directly he would have been less likely to revisit the vomit".

Turing was cremated here on Saturday 12 June 1954, five days after he died.

Rhiannon Davies's daughter Kate was cremated at Emstrey in 2009.

Jenkins found that by 2009, the year Kate and Harry were cremated, furnaces at Emstrey were decrepit.