Sentence examples for light a pyre from inspiring English sources

I felt no different than a castaway who, on glimpsing a sailboat from a high perch on his deserted island, omits to light a pyre because he's spied too many such ships before and doesn't want his hopes dashed again.

I will sing it as I light a pyre of garbage to warn my fellow survivors that our enemies the Crabmen have begun their final sideways march out of the sea.

In Hinduism only a son can light a parent's funeral pyre (see Iyer 2002, pp. 40 42 for a more full discussion).

The question arose of who would speak and who would light the pyre.

Her son won't light her pyre, she accepts, though she sends him what she gets by begging.

Yet year after year leaders strap themselves to the stake and wait for the Olympic torch to light the pyre beneath them.If all had gone as planned, the Olympics would have put the cap on a remarkable reign.

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

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