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Example sentences for "funeral pile"

  • Then seeking up and down about the sands, at last he found some rotten planks of a little fisher-boat, not much, but yet enough to make up a funeral pile for a naked body, and that not quite entire.

  • The king who days and hours employs In base pursuit of vulgar joys Must in his people’s sight be vile As fire that smokes on funeral pile.

  • They heaped high the mountain-pines for a funeral pile.

  • And now Stichus bring me the furniture in which I design to be carried to my funeral pile; bring also the unguent, and some of that pot, which I ordered for the cleansing my bones.

  • Illustration] Unable to bear life in the prospect of a desertion so infamous, she prepared a funeral pile, determined to immolate herself; mounting with a calm resolution she gave way to her despair.

  • Illustration] His body was placed upon a funeral pile, and his wife was burned with him.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    blue eyes; combining form; funeral ceremonies; funeral customs; funeral march; funeral oration; funeral pile; funeral procession; funeral pyre; funeral service; great profit; gunshot wounds; high repute; inner bark; learned friend; more moderate; not remember; rare occurrence; seven dollars; there was; tierra caliente; transmitted through; type from; upon pain; warm countries; young gent