Oxen in numbers round the pyres are slain To Death's dread power, and herds of bristly swine; And cattle, snatched from all the neighbouring plain, And sheep they slaughter for the flames divine.
Reared with pious care By Tarchon and the good AEneas, stand The funeral pyresalong the winding strand.
Meanwhile Dawn had raised her gracious light on weary men, bringing back task and toil: now lord Aeneas, how Tarchon, have built the pyres on the winding shore.
When Homer hinted that the frequency of the kindling of the funeral pyres was owing to the contagion sent by Apollo, he alluded to the practice.
The Brahmin women, who burn themselves on the funeral pyres of their husbands, deck their persons with chaplets and garlands, and present wreaths to the young women who attend them at this terrible sacrifice.
Then pyres and ghauts flare once again, The halls are swept with burning dust, Six Dragons bear the dead one's hearse Unto the newly, opened grave.
Here politicians hear the sound Of ballots that their hearts have wrung, Of burning pyres and blister'd lees That scorch these one-time kings and lords.
Smoke from a dozen to fifty pyres may be seen rising from the ghat, and the ashes are thrown into the Ganges just below.
From that scene the priest takes a visitor to the burning ghat, and in the instance related there were six pyres consuming dead, but none of the "mourners" looking on gave the slightest intimation of grief.
Two funeral pyres were raised on the border of the Rhine, one destined for Victorin and his son, the other for my wife Ellen.
The funeral convoy was approaching the river bank where the two pyres were raised, when Douarnek, who marched at the head of one of the deputations of cohorts, profited by a halt in the procession to approach me.
There are to-night three such pyres raised in Paris," the Superior of the Mathurins proceeded to explain.
Above the pyres rose a sort of scaffolding on which the patients were tied fast.
The blacklists, naming consumers who'd withheld dated gifts from the Potlatch Pyres of earlier years, were brought up to date and distributed to the Reserve BSG Officers in each township of Winfree's District.
Only round the two new pyres not yet quite finished was anything approaching a crowd assembled, and there a priest was officiously directing the laying of the logs.
The poisoned Souldier when his Belly brake, put out two pyresin Plutarch.
Now the four great pyres that were placed there to light the encampment, High on platforms raised above the people, were kindled.
And when the fourteenth day arrived, they all worshipped Hatakesvara, and made pyres in a holy bathing-place called Paparipu.
It was full of many ghosts, empty of men, inauspicious, full of roaring jackals, covered with impenetrable darkness, but shewed in some places a faint gleam where the funeralpyres were.
Funeral pyres she loves to light And snatch the incense from the flaming tomb.
Mid the pile confused Ofttimes the wife sought madly for her spouse And chose for her last kiss some Roman slain; While wretched fathers by the blazing pyres Fought for the dead.
Taric then ordered that the bodies of the Moslem warriors should be interred; as for those of the Christians, they were gathered in heaps, and vast pyres of wood were formed, on which they were consumed.
There is nothing in his hues to provoke deep passion or to stimulate the yearnings of the soul: the pure blushes of the dawn and the crimson pyres of sunset are nowhere in the world that he has painted.
An island in the lagoons devoted to funeral pyres is a solemn and ennobling conception.
What place the Mound Builders are entitled to in the world's history, since they have left no relics but mounds of earth, which mounds are probably funeral pyres or places of sepulchre, we can simply conjecture.
It is an open space, on which various funeral pyres blaze and smoke; vultures and adjutant-birds are waiting for such human remains as may be left: the scene most unpleasant to look at.
After night had fallen, the blaze of funeral pyres on the river banks told their tale of pestilence.
In the darkness of change on the waters of time they shall turn from afar To the beam of this dawn for a beacon, the light of these pyres for a star.
Formerly they were burned upon the funeral pyres of their husbands.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pyres" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
