The widow next walks round the pyre seven times, as she did round the marriage-post at her wedding, strewing parched rice and cowries as she goes, which the spectators catch and keep under the belief that they will cure diseases.
In some places a rupee is thrust into the mouth of the dying man, and if his body is burnt, the coin is recovered from the pyre by his daughter or sister, who wears it as an amulet.
They agreed to do this, and out of the flames of the pyre the fairy emerged and floated up to heaven, leaving only the reins and bridle of the mare in Raja Dang's hand.
The dead are usually burnt, but children and persons dying of cholera or smallpox are buried, males being placed on the pyre or in the grave on their faces and females on their backs, with the feet pointing to the south.
He refused to give her up to Indra and a battle was about to ensue, when the mare besought them to place her on a pyre and sacrifice her instead of fighting.
They both burn and bury the dead, placing the corpse on the pyre with its head to the south or west, and in Wardha to the north.
The Pabudia Bhuiyas throw four to eight annas' worth of copper on to the pyre or into the grave, and if the deceased had a cow some ghi or melted butter.
At the pyre the widow breaks her bangles and throws her glass beads on to her husband's body.
What power is it that makes the Hindoo woman burn herself on the funeral pyre of her husband?
From her mouth, O sinless monarch, froth mixed with milk fell upon the funeral pyre of Rajadharman.
The ashes of the funeral pyre are his, the poison produced by the churning of the ocean was his.
At that time, the auspicious goddess Surabhi, the daughter of Daksha, appeared in the sky above the place where the pyre had been set up.
Religious dances and processions circle around the pyrelaid for a marriage sacrifice.
The pyre flames, the heat warms the clinging tunic, which wraps Hercules in its folds of torture.
Madam, consider how Agrippina did with Germanicus--she had his pyre at Antioch, and conveyed his ashes to Rome.
On this grating the pyre was erected, consisting of precious woods, sprinkled with gums and spices.
Before the day had come again, a long procession took its way from Sindhia's palace to a point on the bank of the Morar river, where a flower-decked funeralpyre had been erected.
In the original poem, Brynhild delays her self-immolation on the pyre of Siegfried to read the assembled choristers a homily on the efficacy of the Love panacea.
Wotan, on the breaking of his spear by Siegfried, has called all his heroes to cut down the withered World Ash and stack its faggots in a mighty pyre about Valhalla.
The beautiful olive trees were felled, an enormous funeral pyre arose, and in the general excitement the orders of the English chief were defied.
That when a death occurred a funeral pyre was erected on the mound, upon which the body was placed.
The corpse was that of a wealthy chieftain, and as he lay upon the funeral pyre they placed in his mouth two gold twenties, and other smaller coins in his ears and hands, on his breast, etc.
Half of the small court was occupied by a black tent, where two men and a woman were cutting chips of wood 2 feet long, on which prayers and holy texts would be written, and then they would be used to kindle the funeral pyre of the deceased.
He is burnt on a pyre (Snorri says on his ship, a feature which must come from the Viking age; Hyndluljod substitutes howe-burial).
The funeral pyre of Baldr is described by Ulf Uggason: he is burnt on his ship, which is launched by a giantess, in the presence of Frey, Heimdal, Odin and the Valkyries.
A great pile of wood was collected, heaped up six or seven feet high, and in the evening, as darkness fell, the bodies of the pakehas were placed on this funeral pyre and cremated.
Sandan was thought to be Heracles by the Greeks, and his effigy was perhaps burned on a pyre at his festival in Tarsus.
We hear that 'water was thrown over him at a great mourning ceremony, at which men and women stood round the funeral pyre of Tammuz lamenting.
King Haki, being mortally wounded, had his ship piled with the bodies and weapons of the slain; a funeral pyre was erected on board and lit, and the body of Haki was borne forth to sea in the flaming vessel.
Thus Tammuz might have his gibbet in June-July, and his pyre in August-September.
And possibly the victim was whipped and hanged at one of them, while his mortal remains were burned on the pyre at the other?
That was the end, but they told me afterwards that, when the great pyre had burned out, in it was found the head of Ki looking like a red-hot stone.
Before the pyre moved figures, in one of whom I knew Ki dressed in his magician's robe.
Now we were come to the centre of the place, and there in front of the great gates of the temple burned a vast pyre of wood.
Afterwards he was burned on a pyre built of the wood of forest trees; and his ashes were cast into the sea.
When the pyre is half consumed, the bystanders kindle the torches at the expiring flames and carry them into the neighbouring orchards, fields, and gardens, wherever there are fruit-trees.
The whole village contributed wood to the pyre on which he perished, and the charred sticks were afterwards kept and planted in the fields on Walpurgis Day (the first of May) to preserve the wheat from blight and mildew.
It is while the corpse is being consumed on the pyre that the kinsmen of the deceased magician flee to the forest and hide themselves, for fear of being elevated to the invidious dignity which he has just vacated.
The man who had been the first to reach the pyre and to kindle it was rewarded on Easter Sunday by the women, who gave him coloured eggs at the church door.
After that the two rows join hands, and forming a huge circle trip it round and round the blaze, till the post with its grotesque face is consumed in the flames and nothing of the pyre remains but a heap of red and glowing embers.
A great pile of firewood has meanwhile been heaped up about it, and the women run round the pyre cursing in shrill voices the wicked spirit who has wrought all this evil.
Here you may see about midnight an old woman grubbing among the cinders of the pyre to find the hair of the Holy Virgin or Saint John, which she deems an infallible specific against fever.
After addressing the throng in a sermon, to which they pay little heed, the parish priest sprinkles the pyre with holy water, and taking a lighted torch from the hand of an assistant sets fire to the pile.
So in love and lofty rapture Are we evermore abiding, Since that lurid life subsiding, In the day grew pale; Since the pyre its sparkles scattered, And the sod above us sinking, From around the spirit shrinking Melted then the earthly veil.
A funeral pyre towered on high, and amid shrieks which made the blood run cold, the children of life were consumed by the flames.
At the end of his third round U Raitong suddenly stopped his music, planted his sharati point downward in the earth, and leaped upon the burning pyre and perished.
He knew instinctively whither she had gone, and in the hope of averting further scandal he hurried in her wake towards the pyre on the hill, but he was too late.
Nobody raised an objection to his request, so he received permission to build his own pyre and to play his own dirge.
U Raitong received the verdict with indifference as one who had long known and become reconciled to his fate, but he asked one boon, and that was permission to build his own pyre and play a dirge for himself.
Henceforth we will offer our bodies on the altar of death, on the pyre of our husbands, to prove our devotion and fidelity.
Accordingly on the morrow U Raitong arose early and gathered a great pile of dry firewood and laid it carefully till the pyre was larger than the pyres built for the cremation of Siems and the great ones of the land.
Sacrifice of Trojan captives on the pyre of Patroklos.
Kroisos, the king of Lydia, on the funeral pyre (B.
The apotheosis of Alkmena, when her husband places her on a funeral pyre after discovering her misdeed, is represented on two fine South Italian vases in the British Museum; in one case Zeus looks on.
And while Croesus related these things, already the pyre was lighted and the edges of it round about were burning.
So he with tears entreated the god, and suddenly, they say, after clear sky and calm weather clouds gathered and a storm burst, and it rained with a very violent shower, and the pyre was extinguished.
The pyreis lit, and the charm is supposed to be complete.
The pyre is to be hung round with garlands and branches of cypress, and the whole crowned with a picture of AEneas and his sword.
Some men had taken up Peyrot le Fort, and had rammed him with their pitchforks into the fuming pyre of the charcoal-burner, then had massed on sods and clay, and had beat it down over him with their spades.
It ran aloft in the mass, licked and lighted the tallow, it caressed, then exploded the casks of tar, and the whole pyre roared as a beast ravening for its prey.
When he was going to the funeral pyre to die, he gave the parting salutation to all his other companions; but he refused to approach Alexander to give him the salutation, saying he would meet him at Babylon and there salute him.
Then mounting the pyre he lay down upon it in a becoming manner, and was visible to the whole army.
He distributed among his other disciples the goblets and rugs which Alexander had ordered to be cast into the pyre as an honour to him.
If any one were to make a pyre of aspen boughs, a hundred loads of them, and were to burn me on that pyre, then he'd be able to get the better of me.
The pyre became wrapped in flames, the Warlock began to burn.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pyre" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
