| 单词 | funeral pyre |
| 例句 | I had ordered the steak, which, bowing to the same minimalist fashion, is served without the bone, the thin slices of beef stacked to resemble a funeral pyre. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Thor stood in front of the funeral pyre, and he held Mjollnir high. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z The crate was gone, and where it had lain were the remains of a funeral pyre. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z She hoped that the stone and the blindfold would do their jobs and take the place of a funeral pyre. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z In spite of his ruthlessness, he felt a pang of grief as he watched the maiden placed on the funeral pyre and the wild flames roar up. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z They throw up a mound for the funeral pyre, for whatever arms or legs or heads my haste has left behind. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z In one speech,*for instance, he accused an enemy in short order of being a “monster, ” “funeral pyre of the commonwealth,” “butcher,” “scoundrel,” “most foul and inhuman monster,” and “gelded pig.” Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z She began to circle the funeral pyre three times clockwise, trying to quell the apprehension bubbling inside her. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z He shuddered, thinking of funeral pyres burning on the surface of the water, of red lights in the deep. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Fourteen minutes after retrofire, Glenns voice suddenly reappeared, sounding shockingly calm for a man who just minutes before was preparing himself to die in a flying funeral pyre. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z She kills herself, praying that her body shall be laid on the funeral pyre with Sigurd’s. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z One by one, they set her afire, and in this way, Elowen’s prisoners built her funeral pyre. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Con’s brown eyes reflected the embers of the funeral pyre. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z And even supposing he somehow managed to cross the desert, there would still be the Cusp to confront: the mountain of white glass said in legend to be the funeral pyre of demons. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Some measure of comfort came to the sorrowful mothers as their sons were laid upon the funeral pyre with all reverence and honor. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z The horror that gripped her as she watched its funeral pyre. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z The kiss of wildfire turned ptond drips into funeral pyres and men into living torches. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “The great dust sea, it’s called in the tales. What else but the Elmuthaleth? And the funeral pyre the size of a moon?” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z While the boy still slept, they built the funeral pyre. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z These had been given when Hercules died to the Prince Philoctetes, the man who had fired his funeral pyre and who later had joined the Greek host when they sailed to Troy. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z From his sun-chariot he shot fiery arrows down upon the Greek Army, and men sickened and died so that the funeral pyres were burning continually. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z I had been told stories of terrible days long ago when widows were thrown on the burning funeral pyres of their husbands. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z He stroked Lixxa’s long white ears and she whickered, and he murmured sweet things to her before continuing, “I am riding over the funeral pyre of the ijji with the Godslayer. Whose secretary I am.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z The smell of the funeral pyre seemed to be burned into her nostrils. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z It is said that after he had been burned on the funeral pyre his bones were placed in the same urn that held those of his friend Patroclus. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z They carried her to the funeral pyre, and they placed her body beside Balder’s. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z He lit the funeral pyre in the middle of the amphitheater, and within seconds the row of shrouds was engulfed in fire, sending smoke and sparks up to the stars. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z After the battle, before the smoke had died from Hardred's funeral pyre, the Geats sent again to Beowulf, asking him if he would be king. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z He helped Kaede assemble the funeral pyre, and then they laid the small, wrapped body on top of it. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z She stared at the hearth like it was her own funeral pyre. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z All unknowing he was looking at the glow of Dido’s funeral pyre. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Kaede wanted to stay there forever, with her face buried in Taisin’s hair, but she could still smell the scent of Elowen’s funeral pyre, and she wondered if it would always be with her. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Beside the funeral pyre the gods had made for the remains of the giant, two huge orbs sat, filled with light. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z And then, like Hercules who rises from his funeral pyre — having cast off his mortal body and assumed his godly form — Superman, a k a Clark Kent, is engulfed in flames. Movie Review: ‘Man of Steel’ Depicts a Striving Stranger in a Strange Land 2013-06-13T16:00:30Z He wrote: Our love become a funeral pyre. Doors drummer protects Jim Morrison legacy in book 2013-04-26T19:47:08Z Their most memorable song is a haunting dirge performed at the funeral pyre of a fallen comrade. Movie Review: ‘Snow White and the Huntsman’ With Kristen Stewart 2012-05-31T17:47:53Z Instead of greeting the flames of Siegfried’s funeral pyre, she walks out of the facility with a bag in hand. Review: Berlin Takes Wagner’s Approach to Staging the ‘Ring’ 2022-10-10T04:00:00Z Exit monologues like that of Brünnhilde at the end of Wagner’s “Ring,” before she rides her horse into a funeral pyre to join Siegfried in death, are so expansive because they close multiple story lines. Exit Arias: What Opera Can Teach Us About Dying 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z His replacement, the American tenor Bryan Hymel, scaled all the top notes and had a certain heroic manner, but would you, like Dido, mount a funeral pyre for him? Les Troyens; Le nozze di Figaro; Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra/Dudamel – review 2012-06-30T23:07:11Z Ms. Schutz’s exhibition, which opened on Thursday evening and runs through May 12, includes a monotype of Brünnhilde on a horse leaping into a funeral pyre. Inside Art: Israel Museum Receiving a Work by Gerhard Richter 2012-01-12T22:30:37Z The language and customs that carried my father off into death were foreign to me, including the sober discovery that upon the funeral pyre, the skull of the departed is crushed. After a lifelong estrangement, a daughter tries to connect with her deceased father 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z With her husband and baby dead, Daenerys walks into a funeral pyre with three eggs and emerges unscathed with three baby dragons, her new children. 10 Actually Happy Things That Happened on 'Game of Thrones' 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z He describes corpses that “sizzled away on funeral pyres,” as dinghies drifted on the Ganges amid smoke and marigolds. “The Twice-Born,” A Searching Memoir About India’s Identity Crisis 2019-03-30T04:00:00Z In despair, Dido orders the building of her own funeral pyre, where she commits suicide. Tess Gerritsen Still Prefers to Read Books the Old-Fashioned Way, on Paper 2021-07-15T04:00:00Z The just-soedness of the plot is too glaring to ignore, even as memorable images, such as a wedding dress on a funeral pyre, leave a strong impression. Review: ‘Top of the Lake: China Girl’ Soaks in Mood More Than Logic 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z It's a typically mordant metaphor; as he makes his exit, he seems to be carrying his own funeral pyre. Der Fensterputzer; Bamboo Blues – review 2012-06-23T23:05:59Z Girl falls into despair — or the nearest funeral pyre. Review: A Bad Romance with Operatic Overtones in ‘Dido of Idaho’ 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z If the court goes 7-2, put our country on a funeral pyre. Style Invitational Week 1444: It’s a whole new all-game — name a sport 2021-07-07T04:00:00Z The brief, austere tone poem concluded with a sustained blaze of trombones intended to evoke the slow burning of pagan funeral pyres. Hall?/Elder ? review 2012-02-12T15:11:38Z "Burn the papers; sell the books; / Clear out all the pestered nooks; / Make a mighty funeral pyre / For the corpse of old desire." John Mullan's 10 of the best: wills 2012-07-06T21:55:19Z The inhumanity of the machine age informs Black Sabbath's incendiary Electric Funeral, with its chilling imagery of robot slaves feeding an enormous radioactive funeral pyre. Readers recommend: songs about funerals – results 2013-06-20T11:04:00Z Longer ones, vertically clustered, form what looks like a funeral pyre; piled horizontally, they become a kind of Pharaonic staircase leading, immensely, to nowhere. Carl Andre’s Epic Sculptures, United at Dia:Beacon 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z In 1997 she painted Mistake Creek Massacre, which depicts both white and indigenous armed men directing Aboriginal people to build their own funeral pyre before murdering them. What became of the Mistake Creek massacre? 2013-07-04T06:12:57Z In the Season 1 finale, titled "Blood and Fire," she finally used them, piling them on a funeral pyre for her husband, Khal Drogo, setting it ablaze, then walking into the flames herself. "Game of Thrones" takes wing 2011-06-20T12:21:00Z But we know Targaryens have a habit of going into a funeral pyre and coming out stronger. Game of Thrones: every possible way Jon Snow could come back from the dead 2016-04-23T04:00:00Z I’d like to tell you that it was a profoundly, mystically cleansing experience, that I laid a lot of pain and anger to rest on that funeral pyre. First Person: Burning Your Diaries: First Person 2011-09-30T22:56:35Z "My own body longs to share the hero's holiest honour," cries Brünnhilde as the logs are piled on her funeral pyre. A to Z of Wagner: D is for death 2013-03-12T10:21:44Z While staying in a Tibetan Buddhist monastery in India, he once saw bodies consigned to funeral pyres and wondered, “What survives death?” As a house burns, its residents are sustained by memories in ‘Night of Fire’ 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z She emerges from a funeral pyre with three baby dragons. Daenerys Tells All! 2019-05-20T04:00:00Z Civilians cursed us and threw rocks as we carried bodies to huge funeral pyres in the city. ‘They know this is no joke’: war letters home 2013-08-12T00:12:00Z The funeral pyres were extinguished as the sun set. Nepal earthquake: Survivors cremate the dead, face uncertain future 2023-11-06T05:00:00Z "There was one funeral pyre for each body that was cremated according to our culture and tradition," said survivor B.K. Sobbing relatives of Nepal quake victims cremate loved ones 2023-11-05T04:00:00Z A wealthier widow, particularly from the Kshatriya or warrior caste, might throw herself on her husband’s funeral pyre in an act of ritual suicide known as sati. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z So much so that fans, nicknamed “Grampires” by some park staff, still haunt this dusty patch of Mojave Desert decades after the 26-year-old’s death at a nearby motel — and impromptu funeral pyre on park grounds. A rock star’s legacy lives on in Joshua Tree 50 years after his shocking funeral pyre 2023-04-10T04:00:00Z As a priest lit the funeral pyre, close friends of Paudel came together to reminisce. Families mourn Nepal plane victims; data box sent to France 2023-01-17T05:00:00Z Grieving survivors have gathered around funeral pyres to send off 13 people who died in the 6.4-magnitude quake. Nepal earthquake: Survivors cremate the dead, face uncertain future 2023-11-06T05:00:00Z “Methane is very flammable — if you go in there, you’d have a good chance of it being a funeral pyre,” said Ira Leifer, an atmospheric scientist. Baltic Sea pipeline leak damages marine life and climate 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z Before Dr. Incao died of prostate cancer on Feb. 28 at age 81, he arranged for a cremation in his adopted hometown, Crestone, Colo., at the country’s only public open-air funeral pyre. ‘Being the Smoke’: One Man’s Choice to Be Cremated Under the Open Sky 2022-05-18T04:00:00Z History, as well as all the conflicts I covered as a war correspondent, have demonstrated that when military posturing begins, it often takes little to set the funeral pyre alight. Endless war is back — as the merchants of death waltz us toward Armageddon 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z With hope, the terrifying images of the pandemic’s ravages — the empty streets and crowded hospitals, the funeral pyres and freezer trucks — will cease to loom so large in our collective memory. Opinion | We Will Forget Much of the Pandemic. That’s a Good Thing. 2022-03-09T05:00:00Z In India, residents in New Delhi said goodbye to loved ones on burning funeral pyres at the site of a makeshift crematorium. AP PHOTOS: 2 years of images tell the story of the pandemic 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z The memories of overwhelmed hospitals and funeral pyres working around the clock are still all too fresh here. India’s Rising Omicron Wave Brings a Grim Sense of Déjà Vu 2022-01-05T05:00:00Z He had been beaten bloody and his car set on fire to provide what one activist called “his funeral pyre.” The Time Archbishop Tutu Was Searched at the Airport 2021-12-26T05:00:00Z The crowd had yanked the man from his car, set it on fire and sought to drag him on top of it to form a “funeral pyre” in vengeance for the four deaths. Desmond Tutu, exuberant apostle of racial justice in South Africa, dies at 90 2021-12-26T05:00:00Z In India, the skies grew dark from the smoke of funeral pyres. 2021 tried to start on a unified note but soon fell to the pandemic's contentious chorus 2021-12-01T05:00:00Z Ms. Khobragade plunged into the vaccine campaign in April, when entire villages were coming down with Covid, and the constant smoke from funeral pyres blackened the skies of New Delhi. India Eased Its Covid-19 Disaster. Fears of Complacency Remain. 2021-11-09T05:00:00Z The Greek god of medicine, Asklepios, was born by cesarean, rescued from his mother’s body as she burned on a funeral pyre. A Personal History of the C-Section 2021-07-21T04:00:00Z Even as funeral pyres lit up the night sky and bodies washed up on the Ganges River, with death all around, the Indian government was widely underreporting the scale of the devastation. India’s true pandemic death toll is likely to be well over 3 million, a new study finds. 2021-07-20T04:00:00Z The Delta variant crept into Americans’ consciousness through a distant haze of funeral pyres. Vaccine 'obstinance' is fueling Delta variant's spread across America 2021-07-16T04:00:00Z Beyond the gate, nine funeral pyres were blazing. The poor, the rich: In a sick India, all are on their own 2021-05-22T04:00:00Z The only booming business, people said, is among the woodsellers who supply the essential ingredient of funeral pyres. The mystery of the hundreds of bodies found in India’s Ganges river 2021-05-21T04:00:00Z A month later, India’s COVID-19 surge has become a tsunami, with hospitals overwhelmed and funeral pyres burning throughout the nights. Why is the world’s largest COVID-19 vaccine campaign faltering? 2021-05-19T04:00:00Z Photographs and television images of funeral pyres burning in parking lots and corpses washing up on the banks of the Ganges river have fuelled impatience with the government's handling of the crisis. Indian data hints at runaway virus spread as daily deaths hit record 2021-05-19T04:00:00Z There, the decomposed bodies are either buried in pits or burnt on funeral pyres. India's holiest river is swollen with Covid victims 2021-05-18T04:00:00Z The eldest son traditionally lights the funeral pyre. The poor, the rich: In a sick India, all are on their own 2021-05-22T04:00:00Z “There is huge demand for firewood used for funeral pyres at crematoria, but supplies are not sufficient,” said Rohit Pardeshi, a firewood merchant in Satara, a city in the western Indian state of Maharashtra. India’s COVID crisis pushes up the cost of living – and dying 2021-05-14T04:00:00Z Firewood is rationed and sparse in some places because of the abundance of funeral pyres. Photo essay: How India's COVID-19 crisis leaves a trail of death and misery 2021-04-30T04:00:00Z In India, amid probably the world’s gravest current outbreak, families beg for aid, and flames from funeral pyres burn day and night. Their father was dying, so two brothers in India went on a desperate hunt for oxygen. 2021-04-28T04:00:00Z Firewood for funeral pyres is rationed and sparse, leaving the dead half-cremated on the banks of the Ganges. Funeral pyres burn. Gravediggers know no rest. India's COVID-19 crisis is a 'nightmare' 2021-04-28T04:00:00Z Now India is enduring its darkest chapter yet, with mass funeral pyres, burials and a collapse of the health system compounded by shortages of oxygen, ventilators, and hospital beds. AP PHOTOS: India’s deadly virus surge follows crowded events 2021-04-27T04:00:00Z But around many Indian cities, images still show people waiting outside hospitals in ambulances or lying on makeshift beds, while elsewhere flames rise from the funeral pyres of victims. India Covid: First UK aid arrives as coronavirus deaths mount 2021-04-27T04:00:00Z As the death toll mounts, the night skies in some Indian cities glow from the funeral pyres, as crematoria are overwhelmed and bodies are burned outside in the open air. SOS messages, panic as virus breaks India’s health system 2021-04-26T04:00:00Z Some of the content now offline in India highlighted that contradiction, using lurid images to contrast Mr. Modi’s rallies with the flames of funeral pyres. As Outbreak Rages, India Orders Critical Social Media Posts to Be Taken Down 2021-04-25T04:00:00Z Deaths were numbered at 2,263 in 24 hours as crematoriums organise mass funeral pyres. Covid-19: India arrivals begin UK hotel quarantine 2021-04-23T04:00:00Z But Mr Gupta was surprised to see dozens of funeral pyres burning. India Covid-19 second wave: Shortage of oxygen, beds and even cremation slots 2021-04-20T04:00:00Z A short video clip went viral recently showing dozens of funeral pyres burning in the northern city of Lucknow in the middle of the night. India's desperate Covid-19 patients turn to black market for drugs 2021-04-15T04:00:00Z A funeral pyre is a natural way to bring together earth and sky, the seen and the unseen, said the founder, Angela Lutzenberger, a hospice minister. Proposal would allow outdoor funeral pyres in Maine 2021-03-24T04:00:00Z On shore leave in India, he witnessed extreme poverty, the physical scars of leprosy and the Hindu practice — now outlawed — of the cremation of widows on the funeral pyres of their husbands. Samuel L. Myers Sr., leader in Black higher education who oversaw Bowie State protests, dies at 101 2021-01-22T05:00:00Z This time, President Trump went straight to the cremation, throwing the Capitol, with Vice President Pence in it, onto the funeral pyre. Opinion | This Republican Party needs to go the way of the Whigs 2021-01-08T05:00:00Z Another photojournalist in Lucknow, which is the capital of Uttar Pradesh state, told the BBC that he counted nearly 100 funeral pyres burning at one of the city's crematoriums in the city on 14 April. India Covid-19 second wave: Shortage of oxygen, beds and even cremation slots 2021-04-20T04:00:00Z A Muslim, he also helped arrange funeral pyres and services for stricken Hindus, a curative deed in a nation riven with sectarian tensions. COVID-19 death toll hits 1 million amid fears of renewed outbreaks 2020-09-28T04:00:00Z The dead are poor — in an Indian village, a man’s family borrows a wooden cart that a neighbor used to sell fish and carries his body to his funeral pyre. Coronavirus death toll quickly approaches 1 million 2020-09-27T04:00:00Z It stands in contrast to a Viennese season that features women dying of consumption, flinging themselves off buildings, and riding horses into funeral pyres. Opera Against the Patriarchy 2019-12-30T05:00:00Z The funeral pyre was ablaze when the boldest avenger of TV’s new millennium was forged in the flames — and peak TV reached a new apex. Our 100 favorite pop culture moments of the millennium (so far) 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z If so, the fires raging in the city streets are where the ideas of neoliberalism are burning in a funeral pyre. A new generation is rising up to resist neoliberalism across the globe 2019-11-30T05:00:00Z Watching Britain let in so many immigrants of color, Powell went on, “is like watching a nation busily engaged in heaping up its own funeral pyre.” From Little Englanders to Brexiteers 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z "If we don't act now, it will be our funeral pyre." Extinction Rebellion Grandparents: We're partly responsible 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z In Japan, mother and daughter dove with pearl divers; in Varanasi, India, they waded the Ganges amid the ashes from the funeral pyres. Woman of Steel 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z Enoch Powell was an MP most famous for his 1968 Rivers of Blood speech, where he said by permitting mass immigration the country was "heaping up its own funeral pyre". Journalist 'no-platformed' by GPs over Powell tweet 2019-06-01T04:00:00Z It was a time when racial tensions there were high, with the city's most famous MP Enoch Powell saying the country was "heaping up its own funeral pyre" by permitting mass immigration. The man who refused to remove his turban 2019-04-30T04:00:00Z He watched his best friend die, lighting the match to the boy’s makeshift funeral pyre. Ground zero Nagasaki 2019-01-22T05:00:00Z Dido was the first queen of Carthage, who famously killed herself on a funeral pyre. Datebook: 2,000 years of art from Sri Lanka, Monterey Park's missing sculpture, mythological tapestries 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z Others fought through the nearly impenetrable crowd to the funeral pyre, just to gently stroke Sameer Tiger’s beard or to kiss his pale face goodbye. Kashmir’s War Gets Smaller, Dirtier and More Intimate 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z Outside the Taj complex, a group of people gathered near a funeral pyre. Off color: Pollution turns India's white marble Taj Mahal green 2018-05-21T04:00:00Z After all, this is a culture where male children are desired above all else — to light the Hindu funeral pyre, inherit property, care for aging parents. In China and India, there are 70 million more men than women. Here are the consequences. 2018-04-18T04:00:00Z Later, he burned an effigy of her on a funeral pyre. Opinion | The Historians Versus the Genealogists 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z Most supernovas are far away and don’t call attention to themselves until their funeral pyre explosions are well underway. He Took a Picture of a Supernova While Setting Up His New Camera 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z He attacked Khan, who was also loudly booed, and then referred to Enoch Powell’s infamous Rivers of Blood speech, saying Khan was “heaping up Britain’s funeral pyre”. Nigel Farage gets warm welcome at gathering of US right wing 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z In Tahiti, trucks roamed the streets of Papeete to collect the dead, and great funeral pyres burned day and night to incinerate the bodies. The flu can kill tens of millions of people. In 1918, that’s exactly what it did. 2018-01-27T05:00:00Z An ill-timed infatuation with debt ahead of the 2007-08 financial crisis threatened to add it to the industry’s towering funeral pyre, which consumed all its big competitors with the exception of Goldman Sachs. Morgan Stanley’s unexciting model takes the prize on Wall Street 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z At the center of this three-tiered royal crematorium — painstakingly carved from sandalwood and designed with murals by Thailand’s top artisans over the past year — is the funeral pyre of the late King Bhumibol Adulyadej. Thailand Begins Royal Cremation for King Bhumibol Adulyadej 2017-10-25T04:00:00Z You begin the book at an open-air funeral pyre in Colorado. Burn, Mummify, Compost—Different Ways to Treat the Dead 2017-10-21T04:00:00Z A royal funeral pyre exhibits the highest level of Thai temple architecture, essentially a huge ornamented sculpture with multiple tiered roofs diminishing in size as they ascend to a narrow spire. Building a Vision of Heaven for Thailand’s ‘God’ 2017-05-08T04:00:00Z Maybe someone told Trump quietly before his speech that in Hyderabad, India, as Kuchibhotla’s broken father collapsed over his funeral pyre, family and friends were waving anti-Trump banners. Opinion | The Kansas shooting teaches Indians a few lessons about Trump — and the United States 2017-03-01T05:00:00Z LANZAROTE, Spain — In the dim underwater light, a man lies on a funeral pyre, his arms outstretched. Undersea Museum Keeps Fish Feeding and Its Social Commentary Biting 2017-01-22T05:00:00Z King Bhumibol’s funeral pyre, devised as an ornate tower with the flourishes of a Thai temple, is still in the early stages of planning. Thailand Takes Small Steps Forward After Longtime King’s Death 2016-12-19T05:00:00Z And with his uncles’ hands guiding his own, he takes a bundle of burning twigs and lights his father’s funeral pyre. At soaring rate, Nepalis seeking jobs abroad come home dead 2016-12-20T05:00:00Z And with his uncles’ hands guiding his own, he will take a bundle of burning twigs and light his father’s funeral pyre. At soaring rate, Nepalis seeking jobs abroad come home dead 2016-12-20T05:00:00Z Thailand will begin building the late king's funeral pyre next year and 8,000 people will be involved in the cremation ceremony, the government said last week. Thailand's parliament to invite crown prince to become new king 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z Felling trees - usually for rebuilding houses, or for weddings or funeral pyres - needs permission, and taking axes into the forests is banned. 'This forest is like an old friend' - India's tribal women fight for land ownership 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z They were then taken to a nearby field, beaten to death, hanged and otherwise abused, with the bodies tossed onto a funeral pyre. Buddhist monks lead commemoration of 1976 Thai massacre 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z It’s reminiscent of that famous scene in Season 1 when Dany emerged unscathed and unclothed from her husband’s funeral pyre with three just-hatched dragons on her shoulders. 'Game of Thrones' recap: Don't mess with Dany or you'll get burned 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z A body anointed with ghee, a type of clarified butter, burns in a funeral pyre. 30 Pictures Show the Different Ways We Die 2016-03-14T04:00:00Z From base to dome the giant structure was alight — a torch to usher in the new born, a funeral pyre for the old which pierced the very heavens.” Friday File: When the Ball First Dropped on New Year’s Eve 2015-12-31T05:00:00Z Thousands of people attended the ceremony, including Thailand's Crown Prince Maha Vajiralongkorn, who lit the funeral pyre. Thailand cremates top Buddhist monk - the supreme patriarch - BBC News 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z It is also home to an open-air funeral pyre, which was built by the Crestone End-of-Life Project, a small but avid group that champions natural funerals. The Rise of the Artisanal Funeral 2015-11-30T05:00:00Z At the end of the Anglo-Saxon epic poem Beowulf, the hero on his funeral pyre is described as hlaford leofne - "beloved lord". The Vocabularist: Of lords, ladies and loaves - BBC News 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z A body anointed with ghee, a type of clarified butter, burns in a funeral pyre. 30 Pictures Show the Different Ways We Die 2016-03-14T04:00:00Z It also contains the funeral pyre of Tlingit chief Chief Kowee, who led them to gold. Alaska driver flees accident through cemetery 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z They say the funeral pyre simply didn't happen, and suggest the attack occurred because students unknowingly hijacked a bus carrying illegal drugs or money. In the search for Mexico's 43, a classmate's brutal killing goes unnoticed, unpunished 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z But the biggest impact of the report is its inclusion of a scientific study of the funeral pyre carried out by a world expert based in Austrailia. Investigation into Mexico's 43 missing students dismisses official story 2015-09-06T04:00:00Z That story is tied to a centuries-old historical practice, also known as sati, in which widows would immolate themselves—or be forcefully immolated—on their husbands’ funeral pyres. In Indian Families, the Dangerous Meeting of Women and Fire 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z A body anointed with ghee, a type of clarified butter, burns in a funeral pyre. 30 Pictures Show the Different Ways We Die 2016-03-14T04:00:00Z With the death toll rising, the funeral pyres at Pashupatinath Temple in Katmandu were consuming the mortal remains of the dead in a seemingly endless procession of ritualized grief, acceptance and farewell. James Nachtwey's Dispatches from Nepal 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z The ancient city — amid toppled temples and the pall of funeral pyres — offers a wide view of the enormous needs now facing Nepal even as the final death toll still remains to be tallied. In Nepal’s capital, plumes from pyres and pleas from quake survivors 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z On one of its banks are the stone platforms where the funeral pyres burn; on the other is a viewing area. Nepal's earthquake survivors are struggling to mourn the dead 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z The work continued: men carried logs; families lit funeral pyres; marigolds fell from bodies being lifted atop those piles of wood. The Latest on Nepal Quake: UN says 8 million affected 2015-04-28T04:00:00Z Around eight miles from Kathmandu in the ancient city of Bhaktapur, funeral pyres burned as groups of women wailed and mourned the dead. Nepal earthquake: Rescuers struggle to reach villages as toll hits 3,700 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z Families of the other two insisted on a traditional Hindu ritual, with funeral pyres made from sticks collected from the surrounding jungles. Villages Near Nepal Earthquake’s Epicenter Are Desperate as Death Toll Tops 3,800 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z Supernovae are the funeral pyres of very massive stars. Fiery star deaths may look different than we thought 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z Bloated carcasses of dead animals lay in the streets and funeral pyres were still burning. India: After 30 Years, Bhopal is Still Simmering They then built an enormous funeral pyre that burned from midnight until 2 or 3 p.m. along the River San Juan in Cocula. Mexico: Burned remains probably are 43 missing 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z They will go directly to a makeshift funeral pyre at the banks of the river, where eight unidentified bodies, including that of a tarp-shrouded child, had been cremated Saturday. Otherworldly Downpour Preceded Landslide in India 2014-08-02T04:00:00Z He then hands over the lighted straw to the person, who then uses it to light the funeral pyre. India Ink: In Varanasi, a Lifetime Spent in a World of Death 2014-03-17T03:52:58Z At the city's Hindu crematorium, one family lit a funeral pyre for a relative who died at the Westgate shopping centre. In pictures: Kenya victims remembered 2013-09-25T14:12:37Z Kevin Rudd was supposed to give Labor a chance to save the furniture and yet he appears to be using the same woodwork to build Labor's funeral pyre. Viewpoint: Can Australia's Rudd pull off a miracle? 2013-08-31T21:09:05Z The funeral pyre, and the passing of a comrade, brings the group together for a bit. Game of Thrones: Fire and Reign 2013-04-22T06:45:00Z It will be taken to a crematorium, where his funeral pyre will be lit by his wife and son, King Norodom Sihamoni, on Monday. Cambodia begins Sihanouk funeral 2013-02-01T04:15:20Z Mr. Chowdhury said he provides the first set of five logs of wood required for the funeral pyre. India Ink: In Varanasi, a Lifetime Spent in a World of Death 2014-03-17T03:52:58Z When burnt, they emit some 8 million tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions per year, according to Mokshda, a Delhi-based non-governmental organization which is working to reduce the environmental impact of funeral pyres. Body Disposal Technology Widens Green Funeral Choice 2012-09-12T17:15:00.227Z Open my black dungeon; erect a funeral pyre; and let the sweetheart obtain the repose that only flames can give. One of Cleopatra's Nights and Other Fantastic Romances One of Cleopatra's Nights?Clarimonde?Arria Marcella?The Mummy's Foot?Omphale: a Rococo Story?King Candaules 2012-04-08T02:00:23.693Z Three days later, Corythus was laid on his funeral pyre in the market place of Troy. Superwomen 2012-04-03T02:00:38.047Z The Curia was destroyed by fire, which it caught from the funeral pyre of Clodius. Walks in Rome 2012-03-31T02:00:36.010Z Other firemen crawled over the mass of dead and dragged their hose into the theater to fight back the flames that seemed to be crawling nearer to turn the fatal landing into a funeral pyre. Chicago's Awful Theater Horror 2012-03-28T02:00:25.877Z When he was dead, Œnone repented of this decision; and when the flames of his funeral pyre rose around him, she rushed into their midst, and was burned to death on his corpse. Myths of Greece and Rome Narrated with Special Reference to Literature and Art 2012-03-27T02:00:24.357Z Azrael placed her hands devoutly across her breast and beckoned to the apparition to follow her, and raising the curtain she returned into that room where she had already raised a funeral pyre for herself. The Slaves of the Padishah 2012-03-06T03:00:24.060Z Manjoala’s Inn had been burnt to the ground, burying poor Mistress Marghioala, who thus met her end under a gigantic funeral pyre. Roumanian Stories Translated from the Original Roumanian 2012-02-28T03:00:27.310Z By nightfall another body had been placed upon the funeral pyre and Mundra was a widow. In Kali's Country Tales from Sunny India 2012-02-17T03:00:28.697Z The king, recognizing in this the fulfilment of the oracle, raised a funeral pyre, and gathering together his concubines and eunuchs, mounted it, and perished in the flames. The Old Testament In the Light of The Historical Records and Legends of Assyria and Babylonia 2012-02-02T03:04:35.567Z Suttee, sut-tē′, n. a usage long prevalent in India, in accordance with which, on the death of her husband, the faithful widow burned herself on the funeral pyre along with her husband's body.—n. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) 2012-01-30T03:00:19.113Z Soon as she climbs the spicy funeral pyre Joyful she drinks the sun, and mounting higher, Now, now the ground her wings victorious strike, And her own ashes. The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume II (of 2) 2012-01-14T03:00:20.483Z Slavery was only abolished in the British dominions that very year, and Hindoo widows had but lately lost the privilege of burning themselves on their husbands’ funeral pyres. Lola Montez An Adventuress of the 'Forties 2012-01-08T03:00:19.240Z You and I will burn together on the same funeral pyre. Folk-Tales of Bengal 2012-01-05T03:00:45.240Z This is 33covered by the surviving relatives with straw and wood, who then set fire to the funeral pyre. Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume III (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. 2012-01-04T03:00:31.713Z As a result, the practice of sati – or widows immolating themselves on their husbands’ funeral pyres – was abolished in Goa 200 years before the British banned it in the rest of India. India Ink: Goa Uses Anniversary to Reimagine Itself 2011-12-16T12:59:31Z No man can escape his doom; the god of Delphi had deferred the fall of Crœsus for three years, and saved him from the flames of the funeral pyre. The History of Antiquity Vol. VI. (vol. VI. of VI.) 2011-12-15T03:00:18.317Z Accident or the funeral pyre may have suggested the extraordinary durability the clay shape obtained when burned, and doubtless siliceous glazes were first the result of chance. Pottery, for Artists Craftsmen & Teachers 2011-12-10T03:00:15.097Z One dog called Hyrcanus, belonging to King Lysimachus, one of the successors of Alexander the Great, jumped on to the funeral pyre on which lay burning the dead body of his master. The Animal Story Book 2011-12-06T03:00:25.427Z Where his funeral pyre was, sprang up a Shiva lingam, which exists to this day, as well as the marks of the flood. Vidy?pati: Bang?ya pad?bali; songs of the love of R?dh? and Krishna 2011-12-02T03:00:26.297Z It had vanished in the smoke of the funeral pyre, and Blair was grateful, for things might have been very different. White Fire 2011-11-21T03:00:15.067Z Petersburg is full of little squares and in every square were heaps of logs, laid one across another like a funeral pyre, which were frequently lighted as a place for the isvoshiks to warm themselves. Memoirs of an American Prima Donna 2011-11-17T03:00:32.600Z I think the heathen custom of burning wives on the funeral pyres of their husbands a good one. Daisy the autobiography of a cat 2011-10-25T02:00:24.887Z He is dancing on a funeral pyre of papers, the results of the administration, its endless negotiations with France, its sinecures and patronages, which are blazing away. The History of the Nineteenth Century in Caricature 2011-10-04T02:00:18.533Z "Upon thy funeral pyre my heart, too, is turning to ashes!" The Golden Hope A Story of the Time of King Alexander the Great 2011-10-02T02:00:13.920Z As soon as she and her maid Irla beheld the town of Aden lying before them, they got down and prepared, as the bird had bidden them, his funeral pyre of cinnamon and cloves. The Strange Story Book 2011-09-15T02:00:13.747Z Should he, like the phœnix, rise above the funeral pyre of the dead hopes of his people, and again rule the land as king? A Maid at King Alfred?s Court 2011-09-13T02:00:30.520Z The sparks, as they rose from the funeral pyre, were changed into birds, which divided into two flocks, and fought together until they fell into the flames and were consumed. The Student's Mythology A Compendium of Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Assyrian, Persian, Hindoo, Chinese, Thibetian, Scandinavian, Celtic, Aztec, and Peruvian Mythologies 2011-09-12T02:00:29.450Z But he had lighted a torch which was not to be extinguished, till it had blazed over Scotland, and kindled his own funeral pyre. Life of Mary Queen of Scots, Volume II (of 2) 2011-08-14T02:00:23.870Z Persons who had ascended the green litter and slept on the funeral pyre could never come back to the village! Tales of the Sun or Folklore of Southern India 2011-08-09T02:00:29.493Z If it is a funeral pyre of the past, let us watch the dying embers. Cynthia Wakeham's Money 2011-07-18T02:00:24.717Z From the funeral pyre of the last Grand Master of the Templars, Jean Jacques de Molay, whom I had given up, I found myself in the Paradise of India. My Recollections 2011-07-16T02:00:14.973Z He then fled in his agony to the summit of Mount Œta, where he erected a funeral pyre with forest trees which he tore up by the roots. The Student's Mythology A Compendium of Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Assyrian, Persian, Hindoo, Chinese, Thibetian, Scandinavian, Celtic, Aztec, and Peruvian Mythologies 2011-09-12T02:00:29.450Z Never again would it spread its plumage for her,--never arise, a second phoenix, from its funeral pyre. Only a Girl: or, A Physician for the Soul. 2011-07-13T02:00:14.230Z In time the cremation ground was reached, and village watchmen had collected a score of dried cowdung cakes and a bundle of firewood from each house, for the funeral pyre. Tales of the Sun or Folklore of Southern India 2011-08-09T02:00:29.493Z To employ the parallel subsequently drawn by General Ewing on the trial of the conspirators: On the funeral pyre of Patroclus must be immolated the twelve Trojan captives. The Judicial Murder of Mary E. Surratt 2011-05-24T02:00:12.183Z In great part I'll escape the funeral pyre; And lately praised, my praise will go on growing To latest years. Memorial Day and Other Verse 2011-05-20T02:00:35.647Z And so a perpetual round of gaiety invited the votaries of fashion, like the whirling dance about the funeral pyre of Arvalan. Trevethlan (Vol 3 of 3) A Cornish Story. 2011-05-17T02:00:19.780Z When the night arrived he laid the bodies of his parents upon a funeral pyre and burned them with all honors and religious rites. The Gospel of Buddha Compiled from Ancient Records by Paul Carus 2011-04-19T02:00:18.493Z It is believed that, after biting a human being, it ascends the nearest palmyra palm, where it waits until it sees the smoke ascending from the funeral pyre of the victim. Omens and Superstitions of Southern India 2011-03-28T02:00:25.937Z What was her surprise, when, having spread the ashes of the bird upon this funeral pyre, she saw it blaze of itself! Voltaire's Romances, Complete in One Volume 2011-03-20T02:00:21.247Z Male and female flying creatures circled and spun in the glare, dancing their dance of love and death in the wild radiance from the funeral pyre of the purple hills. The Mad Planet 2011-03-02T03:00:25.117Z In half a minute the hangars ceased to exist save as a funeral pyre to the mechanical birds that would never again soar through the air. Billy Barcroft, R.N.A.S. A story of the Great War 2011-02-24T03:01:02.917Z With the southern sky murky with the smoke and lurid with the glare of Dido's funeral pyre, �neas sails away with sad forebodings, and comes again to Sicily. Studies in the Poetry of Italy, I. Roman 2011-02-06T03:00:58.870Z Then swiftly follows the plot to kill Siegfried, but Brunhilde, whose wrath could be appeased only by the peerless knight's death, has a change of heart and stabs herself on his funeral pyre. Comfort Found in Good Old Books 2011-01-31T03:00:11.907Z An hour and a half later, when the navigator gave me a spell, a black cloud on the northern horizon marked the funeral pyre of another of our victims. The Diary of a U-boat Commander With an Introduction and Explanatory Notes by Etienne 2011-01-30T03:00:19.213Z This story is often linked to the practice of sati, which was a custom in some parts of India where a widow would burn herself on the funeral pyre of her dead husband. A Brief History of Self-Immolation 2011-01-20T08:00:00Z Line: Colts by 5 1/2 Summon the mourners and light the funeral pyres: the Colts lost their season opener. Week 2 Matchups: Monitoring the Mannings and the Patriots' Moods 2010-09-17T18:41:00Z Part of the land that Sikhs and Hindus use for the funeral pyres for their dead has been taken over by urban sprawl in Kabul. Afghan Hindus and Sikhs grapple with uncertain future 2010-07-02T01:40:00Z The place was a funeral pyre for the young who died before knowing the thirst of man or woman. Yusef Komunyakaa: “Orpheus at the Second Gate of Hades.” 2010-06-21T04:00:00Z According to Tibetan ritual, Trichen set fire to his father’s funeral pyre. Houseguest, Teenager and King of Tibet 2010-06-12T01:23:00Z On Sunday, the bodies of more than 700 quake victims were burned on vast funeral pyres. Two China quake survivors rescued 2010-04-19T10:20:00Z Photographs of wailing family members mourning the dead troops and burning funeral pyres, have touched a chord with many across India. Losing goodwill? 2010-04-15T23:43:00Z "My request was often misinterpreted, leading many to believe I wanted a funeral pyre cremation in an open field, whereas I always accepted that buildings and permanent structures would be appropriate." 2010-02-10T13:16:00Z It is by her command that we mourn the calamity of a friend or the death of the babe “too small for the funeral pyre.” Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius The funeral pyre was then lighted on the vessel, and the ship sent blazing out to sea. Beowulf An Introduction to the Study of the Poem with a Discussion of the Stories of Offa and Finn The most significant was the liberation, at the moment of kindling the funeral pyre, of an eagle which was supposed to bear the emperor’s soul to heaven. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 3 "Apollodorus" to "Aral" An epidemic of smallpox and yellow fever was raging, and clouds of smoke hung over the city from the funeral pyres where were being burned many of the bodies for which burial was impossible. The History of Cuba, vol. 4 They bury the body, with many mysterious rites, in vaults or chambers underground, instead of burning it on a funeral pyre. Valeria The Martyr of the Catacombs And he resolved to save the expense of the oil for Claire's funeral pyre. The White Plumes of Navarre A Romance of the Wars of Religion Now it is impossible to say exactly how the funeral pyres were equipped in England. Beowulf An Introduction to the Study of the Poem with a Discussion of the Stories of Offa and Finn Petrarch, of gentle temper, and full of filial respect, ventured upon no resistance; but when he saw his Virgil and his Cicero put upon his funeral pyre, he burst into a flood of uncontrollable tears. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 383, September 1847 Shall we embraize the earth in one vast funeral pyre By impact of a star? let loose a sulphurous wind? Satan Absolved Two minutes later they reached the bank of the stream, and stopped about fifty paces from the funeral pyre, upon which the corpse was extended. Round the World in Eighty Days As they marched from the church where they had been tried to the immense funeral pyre, they passed Constance in the porch of the church. Women of Mediæval France Woman: in all ages and in all countries Vol. 5 (of 10) This plan was not carried out, but Dinocrates designed for Alexander the plan of the new city of Alexandria, and constructed the vast funeral pyre of Hephaestion. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 5 "Dinard" to "Dodsworth" And then the jellied gasoline ignited, turning those thousands of lives trapped in the deep into one vast funeral pyre.... The Brain They advise her to appease the wrath of the deity by throwing herself with the husband upon the funeral pyre and thus as far as possible wipe out the awful disgrace. Oriental Women That woman is considered very fortunate who can enjoy the privilege of “sati,” that is, be burned alive on the funeral pyre of her husband, for thereby she secures unquestionable happiness in the next world. Reminiscences The Story of an Emigrant Agrippina, after the body of her husband had been burned on the funeral pyre, set forth in the depth of winter on her journey to Rome with his ashes. Roman Women It was the low vaulted hall, where, in former times, the corpses of the emperors had been prepared with salves and combustibles for the funeral pyre. A Struggle for Rome, v. 1 It was the funeral pyre of Roman rule in the fortress on the lake. A Captive of the Roman Eagles For long ages in India sorrowing wives burned themselves to death on the funeral pyres of their lords. The Bartlett Mystery The floor is made of clay, excepting the spots under the funeral pyres, where it consists of large flagstones. Reminiscences The Story of an Emigrant A funeral pyre towered on high, and amid shrieks which made the blood run cold, the children of life were consumed by the flames. Henry of Ofterdingen: A Romance. Bring withered Autumn leaves, Call everything that grieves, And build a funeral pyre above his head! Portia or By Passions Rocked The funeral pyre fell overwhelming the remains of Endovellicus with ashes and charring logs, while around the embers of the fire commenced the combat in honor of the dead. Sónnica Call everything that grieves, And build a funeral pyre above his head! The Galaxy, Volume 23, No. 2, February, 1877 They built a great funeral pyre, and no one was too small to help in the work of love. Nature Myths and Stories for Little Children Rome herself will burn in cinnamon and cassia, and in all her burnished Corinthian brass and scarlet bravery, the old mother following her children to the funeral pyre. Callista : a Tale of the Third Century The funeral pyre dedicated by Alexander to his friend Hephæstion recalls that erected by Sardanapalus in one of the courts of his own palace, on which he perished, surrounded by his wives and his treasures. Needlework As Art "He covered the doors of our houses with the hands of our enemies," shouted a warrior, galloping like a phantom through the smoke of the funeral pyre. Sónnica "It would afford me great pleasure," stated Sherwood calmly, "if that were Simon's funeral pyre." The Monk of Hambleton Solemn and magnificent rites are celebrated, both civil and religious; and a funeral pyre, or chapelle ardente, is erected in the royal military chapel, the splendors of which are minutely described. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 36, 1649-1666 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century. I feel like the fair Dido mounting her funeral pyre. Liége on the Line of March An American Girl's Experiences When the Germans Came Through Belgium The tale is all too dreadful to recall—the funeral pyre of at least five thousand human beings. A Story of the Red Cross Glimpses of Field Work Beside the bier are the offerings of food and drink which the Greeks used to burn along with their dead on the funeral pyre. Evangelists of Art Picture-Sermons for Children O God unthroned, Lone exile from the faith you owned, No priest to bring you sacrifice, No censer with its breath of spice, No land to mourn your funeral pyre. The Fairy Changeling and Other Poems What power is it that makes the Hindoo woman burn herself on the funeral pyre of her husband? The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV “It is the funeral pyre of my father,” the girl answered simply. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, March 1930 Then did great grief fall upon the land of the Niblungs; and a mighty funeral pyre was built for Sigurd, and his body was laid thereon. Told by the Northmen: Stories from the Eddas and Sagas Formerly and up to the time that the British Government stopped the practice less than a century ago, it was regarded as the widow's duty to burn herself alive on her husband's funeral pyre. Where Half The World Is Waking Up The Old and the New in Japan, China, the Philippines, and India, Reported With Especial Reference to American Conditions To the right the barber stands with his fire-bowl hanging from a chain; this is to light the funeral pyre. Things as They Are Mission Work in Southern India He held Joan very close and watched that blazing funeral pyre in wordless sorrow as the bereaved girl dropped her head to his shoulder. Wanderer of Infinity The sun was then sinking; Mobila was in ruins, and its flaming dwellings formed the funeral pyre of thousands of the dead. Ferdinand De Soto, The Discoverer of the Mississippi American Pioneers and Patriots The sky had taken on that deep blue velvet softness of Italian beauty, and the low, red west of the dying day might have been reflected from some funeral pyre in distant, mystic India. Sunlight Patch The howling of medicine-men rang all day long in the royal lodge; each day saw swathed corpses borne out to the funeral pyre or mimaluse island. The Bridge of the Gods A Romance of Indian Oregon. 19th Edition. There are funeral pyres of wood where the relatives are carrying out the last offices for the dead. Round the Wonderful World Still could the parent not support the sight, Plac'd on the funeral pyre his limbs, but straight With locks dishevell'd, not disdain'd to sue Prostrate before the knees of mighty Jove. The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II A lofty butte like a funeral pyre, With the sun atop, looms high In the cloudless, windless, saffron sky. The Trail of the Goldseekers A Record of Travel in Prose and Verse His body is burned on the funeral pyre, which, like Balder’s, represents either the setting sun or the last gleam of summer, of which he too is a type. Myths of the Norsemen From the Eddas and Sagas In the ironical language of the proverbs the Dom figures as "the lord of death" because he provides the wood for the Hindu funeral pyre. Introduction to the Science of Sociology I find the following statement: "The act of Sardanapalus in making his palace his own funeral pyre and burning himself upon it, is also attributed to the king who was overthrown by Cyaxares." Notes and Queries, Number 82, May 24, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc This self-immolation, like that of the burning of widows upon their husband's funeral pyres, has latterly been suppressed. Due West or Round the World in Ten Months When six years old, he lighted, by torch, the funeral pyre of his dead father and living mother. India, Its Life and Thought Balder’s funeral pyre on Ringhorn reminds us of Hercules’s death on Mount Œta, the flames and reddish glow of both fires serving to typify the setting sun. Myths of the Norsemen From the Eddas and Sagas I have never wondered since that the Chinese women allow their daughters' feet to be encased in iron shoes, nor that the Hindoo widows walk calmly to the funeral pyre. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I At my right is a fiery pit that is now believed to have been the funeral pyre of almost a thousand persons. The Johnstown Horror!!! or, Valley of Death, being A Complete and Thrilling Account of the Awful Floods and Their Appalling Ruin And close at hand, beneath that sheet, was the cold clay of one already departed, now to be consumed upon the funeral pyre and his ashes cast into the Ganges. Due West or Round the World in Ten Months The old system of Sati, whereby a woman immolated herself on the funeral pyre of her dead husband, what was it? India, Its Life and Thought Leuconoe, cease presumptuous to inquire Of grave Diviner, if successive years Onward shall roll, ere yet the funeral pyre, For thee and me, the hand of Friendship rears! Original sonnets on various subjects; and odes paraphrased from Horace We who talk of the burning of wives upon the funeral pyres of husbands in India, may well turn our eyes to the records of Christian countries. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I The mass, which unquestionably forms a funeral pyre for thousands of victims who lie buried beneath it, is likely to burn for weeks to come. The Johnstown Horror!!! or, Valley of Death, being A Complete and Thrilling Account of the Awful Floods and Their Appalling Ruin During nine days wood was collected and brought, in carts drawn by oxen, to the site of the funeral pyre. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" A picture of a widow being burned on her husband's funeral pyre would be a bit out of the ordinary, wouldn't it? Where the Strange Trails Go Down Sulu, Borneo, Celebes, Bali, Java, Sumatra, Straits Settlements, Malay States, Siam, Cambodia, Annam, Cochin-China Pope, in translating the passage describing the commencement of the funeral pyre, uses the word pyramid. Archaeological Essays, Vol. 1 When a dignitary of the priesthood passes away his confrères assemble from far and near at the funeral pyre to do him honor. East of Suez Ceylon, India, China and Japan Just in front of the office is what has been called the "funeral pyre," and which threatens to become a veritable breeding spot of pestilence. The Johnstown Horror!!! or, Valley of Death, being A Complete and Thrilling Account of the Awful Floods and Their Appalling Ruin Already one body had been placed on a funeral pyre of wood. The Critic in the Orient So, too, the Hindoo widows used to laugh when seated on the funeral pyre ready to be burnt. More Science From an Easy Chair This light came from the funeral pyre of Françoise and the old man. The Son of Monte-Cristo Each tiny, lapping flame of fire That fed its tongue on thee, would scorch The life-blood in my heart until Upon the funeral pyre, I'd throw My worthless self. Indian Legends of Minnesota The terrible scene at Johnstown bridge, where thousands were consumed was the greatest funeral pyre known in the history of the world. The Johnstown Horror!!! or, Valley of Death, being A Complete and Thrilling Account of the Awful Floods and Their Appalling Ruin The latter was very speedy in securing wood and in building a funeral pyre. The Critic in the Orient The island grove was like a great funeral pyre. In The Boyhood of Lincoln A Tale of the Tunker Schoolmaster and the Times of Black Hawk Before the departure from the entrance of Cherokee Inlet, the stranded vessel was set afire and blazed grandly as the funeral pyre of Blackbeard's stout lads who would go no more a-roving. Blackbeard: Buccaneer For, from the festive board, or the nuptial bed, from the most sacred altar of the Gods, or from the solemn funeral pyre, I will come instant to thy bidding. The Roman Traitor, Vol. 1 By midnight the dreadful funeral pyre was completed. The Call Of The South 1908 Then flashed the giant's eye with fire Like that which lights the funeral pyre. The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse The burning of hunger is quenched at last on the funeral pyre. The Cycle of Spring The emblems of mourning have darkened White House and cabin alike; but the fires of civil war have melted every fetter in the land, and proved the funeral pyre of slavery. History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States Then he looked at the orange glow that marked the funeral pyre of the ship. The Quantum Jump He built a funeral pyre of it all and mounted it himself, but rain extinguished it. Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals It was enough that France lay prostrate, that the wounded screamed from the blood-wet fields, that the quiet dead lay under the pall of smoke from the nation's funeral pyre. Lorraine A romance As it was customary at that time to burn the bodies of the dead, both corpses were laid upon the funeral pyre side by side. The Story of the Greeks In the second line Aeneas pursues his way certus, even while he gazes at the flames of Dido's funeral pyre, not knowing what they meant. The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus I asked thee, "Does thy sleep-tower stand somewhere beyond the dying embers of the day's funeral pyre?" Creative Unity Even the farmers from the scattered farms along the way lit funeral pyres as the dark procession thundered past through the night. The New Land Stories of Jews Who Had a Part in the Making of Our Country So they did as he said, and in a ship they built a funeral pyre, and round it placed much gold and jewels, and on it laid a sheaf of wheat. A Book of Myths The impassivity of the natives departed from them when they stood about the funeral pyres, and clapping of hands and warlike chanting went heavenward with the smoke. Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa I would fulfil the rites of Stygian Jove that I have fitly ordered and begun, so to set the limit to my distresses and give over to the flames the funeral pyre of the Dardanian.' The Aeneid of Virgil The funeral pyre was then lighted, and the voices of the Muses were heard chanting his funeral dirge. Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome We could count thirteen fiercely raging fires in various parts of the city, which looked like one vast funeral pyre. A Labrador Doctor The Autobiography of Wilfred Thomason Grenfell Even the gods were pitiful, and when the nymphs would have burned the body on a funeral pyre which their own fair hands had built for him, they sought it in vain. A Book of Myths In India women leap on the funeral pyre of a dead husband. The Wedding Ring A Series of Discourses for Husbands and Wives and Those Contemplating Matrimony Behind a foreground of waving flags is seen the battle field of Kurukshetra with procession of white-clad mourning women seen by fitful lights of funeral pyres. Sir Jagadis Chunder Bose His Life and Speeches For nine days he let fly his fatal arrows, first on animals and then on men, till the air became darkened with the smoke from the funeral pyres. Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome His attendant winds and voices had been sacrificed on his funeral pyre. The Daughters of Danaus Conscience," he pleaded desperately on the afternoon which neither of them could ever remember afterwards without a sickness of the soul, "you're simply building a funeral pyre for yourself. The Tyranny of Weakness They were all alike consigned to the same funeral pyre, and thousands of volumes of unascertained, but perhaps considerable, value were thus lost to the world for ever. Impressions of a War Correspondent Hercules was compelled to ascend the funeral pyre, and there be burned alive. Architects of Fate or, Steps to Success and Power Many of the fallen lay unseen amid the ravines and hollows, and the burning forest was their funeral pyre. Before the Dawn A Story of the Fall of Richmond I will try to describe no more, save that the funeral pyre, which the murderers had raised to hide their crime, had not reached them, not a garment being singed. Gil the Gunner The Youngest Officer in the East I see in this idea to which you are sacrificing yourself as distorted a sense of honor as the suttee's, who ascends her husband's funeral pyre and wraps herself in a blanket of fire. The Tyranny of Weakness We at length decided to burn both the bodies, and I forthwith set about the construction of a funeral pyre. The Congo Rovers A Story of the Slave Squadron He looked down at their inert, but titanically powerful enemy whose baleful glow seemed even now to be burning their funeral pyre. Islands of Space We burned him on a funeral pyre as a dead gladiator, with much ceremony and boyish speaking. South American Fights and Fighters And Other Tales of Adventure Then the same question was put to the women servants, and if one of them consented, she was feasted until the day when the funeral pyre awaited the corpse. The Story of Russia An he be at funeral pyre where one mourns a son devoted, where a bereft mother's tears stream for her only one, he grins. The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus When the Phœnix is fanning her funeral pyre, will there not be sparks flying! Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History The boys began to search about for dried sticks and twigs, while the girls were arranging the figure for her funeral pyre. Grace Harlowe's Plebe Year at High School The Merry Doings of the Oakdale Freshmen Girls I'm sorry for the souls who build their own fame's funeral pyre, Derided by the scornful throng like ice deriding fire. Custer, and Other Poems. Some writers have said that he was crucified by Philadelphus; others that he was stoned at Chios; others again that he was thrown alive upon a funeral pyre at Smyrna. The Ten Books on Architecture The desperate leaders of the Commune determined that, if they must perish, Paris should be their funeral pyre. Historical Tales, Vol. 6 (of 15) The Romance of Reality. French. The body of the wife had hardly been carried from the house to the funeral pyre. Bakemono Yashiki (The Haunted House), Retold from the Japanese Originals Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 2 Here I am, and I have half a mind to set fire to that accursed pile called Armine Castle for my funeral pyre.' Henrietta Temple A Love Story And as we came, the red of the crumbling sandstone burned in the fire of sunset like a funeral pyre heaped with roses. The Heather-Moon Under the moon and stars, the line of battle, seen from a distance, is a red horizon, ominous and threatening, fringing a land of broken homes, ruined villages, and blazing funeral pyres. The Red Horizon Genji gazed intently on it and hummed:— "When we regard the clouds above, Our souls are filled with fond desire, To me the smoke of my dead love, Seems rising from the funeral pyre." Japanese Literature Including Selections from Genji Monogatari and Classical Poetry and Drama of Japan Gloomy the old vassal prepared the funeral pyre of his mistress. Bakemono Yashiki (The Haunted House), Retold from the Japanese Originals Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 2 After nightfall, the blue glow rising from these awful funeral pyres, lit up the whole field. The Story of Paul Boyton Voyages on All the Great Rivers of the World The horses of the herd, which had been driven to this side to avoid the funeral pyre, were shifting nervously, the scent of burning making them uneasy. The Time Traders Were all undue anxiety Eliminated from desire, Could feverish fears and fancies be Consumèd on some funeral pyre, Like holy hecatomb or sacrifice, 'Twould be accepted up in Paradise. Poems Vol. IV For two days they journeyed through desolation, in a burnt-out world where nothing had colour except the sad violet sky which at evening flamed with terrible sunsets, cruelly beautiful as funeral pyres. The Golden Silence Gaining the open country, I gazed upon the fierce flames now bursting in a dozen places from the roof of my doomed home, the funeral pyre of the last ones dear to me on earth. Tales of Destiny A funeral pyre worthy the admiration and awe it must have excited. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 1, January 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy The fanes symbolize the funeral pyre, for whoever enters the nether world must scorn the fear of death. The Younger Edda Also called Snorre's Edda, or The Prose Edda It seems a wicked shame," he observed in a whisper, as he viewed the funeral pyre, "but it's the only way. Flood Tide That day had been the funeral pyre of his old life; and, like Sardanapalus, it had died of its own free will. The Loom of Youth Then I found poet Campbell true to nature, where he speaks of hope standing intact ''mid Nature's funeral pyre.' The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 4, April, 1864 Achilles clipped his yellow locks and threw them as a sacrifice upon the funeral pyre of Patroclus. Zophiel A Poem A dozen bales had been broken open and the whole floating funeral pyre stood shrouded in spotless white which leaped into flames as it was pushed into the stream. The Victim A romance of the Real Jefferson Davis It was not the body which had been consumed on a funeral pyre, or swallowed up in the sea and eaten by the fishes. Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary Heap the dead and dying For a funeral pyre. The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII, No. 355, October 16, 1886 Not any fire Save sad flames set to light a funeral pyre Dost thou suggest. The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar Are we willingly carrying fuel for our own funeral pyres, there to be consumed by the greedy and relentless ghouls of Catholicism? Thirty Years In Hell Or, From Darkness to Light He expects a brand from this to be used to light his funeral pyre, whose fire and light will make his spirit fit to enter his heavenly abode. Artificial Light Its Influence upon Civilization Beyond the temple lay the same stream by which, miles away, Kathlyn had seen the funeral pyre and about which she had so weird a fantasy. The Adventures of Kathlyn I'd knelt down to make a funeral pyre of paper roses, when in a voice low yet firm my brother ordered me to my feet. The Motor Maid The funeral pyre is made of firs, vine branches, and other wood that burns easily. The Wonders of Pompeii Moreover, the fugitive Hurons went to convert their enemies, and even from the funeral pyres of the priests was to spring the spark of faith for all these peoples. The Makers of Canada: Bishop Laval It is known to most of the readers that Sutteeism was the practice of burning the widows on the funeral pyre of their dead husbands. Indian Ghost Stories Second Edition They passed by these and presently came upon a funeral pyre. The Adventures of Kathlyn How creditable was his behavior when he looked back over the black water on the trail of flame stretching from the funeral pyre where Dido lay burning! Guy Livingstone; or, 'Thorough' There are three, which are sarcophagi, still complete, neverPg 113 open, and proving that the ancients buried their dead even before Christianity prohibited the use of the funeral pyre. The Wonders of Pompeii That is the tradition—that the hill is an immense funeral pyre. Indiscreet Letters From Peking Being the Notes of an Eye-Witness, Which Set Forth in Some Detail, from Day to Day, the Real Story of the Siege and Sack of a Distressed Capital in 1900—The Year of Great Tribulation It is said that the form of the pyramid is in imitation of the flame which ascends from a funeral pyre. Corinne, Volume 1 (of 2) Or Italy Out of that funeral pyre her feverish thoughts builded a frightful dream. The Adventures of Kathlyn After a short time the flames die down, the bright light fades, the stage darkens, and the river rises and overflows its banks, until its waves come dashing over the funeral pyre. Stories of the Wagner Opera Consular armies were vanquished and the Roman prisoners, transformed to gladiators, in their turn were compelled to butcher each other around the funeral pyres of their chiefs. The Wonders of Pompeii "Bring wood," he begged, "and build a funeral pyre, That we may seek our son through death by fire." Translations of Shakuntala and Other Works His relatives, however, bore it off to the funeral pyre; and on the twelfth day, lying there, he returned to life, and he told them what he had seen in the other world. On The Art of Reading And the body of Ibycus was consumed upon a funeral pyre. Foes This he has decided shall be his funeral pyre, when the predicted doom of the gods overtakes him. Stories of the Wagner Opera As she expired she requested to be burned on Sigurd’s funeral pyre, and also prophesied that Gudrun would marry Atli, and that the death of many heroes would be caused thereby. Hero Tales and Legends of the Rhine Just as a widow immolates herself on the funeral pyre of her husband, let us die for the Mother. Indian Unrest Under the cover of darkness the Germans had piled the dead into great heaps and had covered them with straw and paraffin; then they had set a torch to these funeral pyres. The New York Times Current History of the European War, Vol 1, Issue 4, January 23, 1915 Having accomplished this work, the lighted tinder was applied, when the flames leaped high up in the air, forming a fit funeral pyre for their slain companions. The Life and Adventures of Kit Carson, the Nestor of the Rocky Mountains, from Facts Narrated by Himself The sun shortened all the shadows of the land, and lengthened them again, and sank at last upon his funeral pyre of crimson-burning cloud. Some Chinese Ghosts The vassals build a funeral pyre, and place the body of Siegfried upon it. The Opera A Sketch of the Development of Opera. With full Descriptions of all Works in the Modern Repertory. The flames were already devouring what the smoke had smothered; their wretched pallet was a funeral pyre. Winter Evening Tales "When sun, and moon, and stars turn pale, On Nature's funeral pyre, O'er all Spain's glory shall prevail, An eagle soaring higher." The Knight of the Golden Melice A Historical Romance The corpse of my venerable father, and that of a bold baby boy, lie beneath yon heap of ruins which made their funeral pyre. French and English A Story of the Struggle in America You cannot see the vile uses you are made to subserve for a time, or deem that those who now appear your conservators, are but preparing your funeral pyre. The Memories of Fifty Years Containing Brief Biographical Notices of Distinguished Americans, and Anecdotes of Remarkable Men; Interspersed with Scenes and Incidents Occurring during a Long Life of Observation Chiefly Spent in the Southwest Pollio is touched by her magnanimity, and together they ascend the funeral pyre, in its flames to be cleansed from earthly sin. The Opera A Sketch of the Development of Opera. With full Descriptions of all Works in the Modern Repertory. He looked back, saw the sinking blaze of the funeral pyre, shuddered and walked on. The Texan Scouts A Story of the Alamo and Goliad At that moment Ravengar had meant that the Hugo building should have been a funeral pyre—a spectacle to petrify the Metropolis. Hugo A Fantasia on Modern Themes Calm, without tears, she bade his weeping warriors build up the funeral pyre, putting the torch with her own hand. Far to Seek A Romance of England and India If they left the wheel the current would inevitably swing the boat's head downstream, and she would drift, aimlessly, a flaming funeral pyre for all on board. American Merchant Ships and Sailors These funeral pyres are burning all the time, night and day. Across India Or, Live Boys in the Far East The four wives of that heroic son of Sura ascended the funeral pyre and were consumed with the body of their lord. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18 Salutations to thee that art armed with bones and that art fond of the ashes of funeral pyres. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 He could do nothing but stand helplessly and gaze upon what was plainly Garvington's funeral pyre. Red Money The dwellings of the city became but the funeral pyre for the bodies of the inhabitants. The Empire of Russia A granite platform is the base of the funeral pyre, and the bodies wait their turn to be reduced to ashes; and the cremation is far more repulsive than that in our own country. Across India Or, Live Boys in the Far East "Carry him to the funeral pyre!" said Odin, at length; and four of the gods stooped down and lifted their dead brother. Young Folks Treasury, Volume 2 (of 12) The trees on the crematorium are assuming a dark hue in consequence of the blue smoke of the funeral pyres. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 This is the sixth day since; the funeral pyre is yet warm. The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I. The dwellings became but the funeral pyres for the bodies of the slain. The Empire of Russia The Sylph came about, and went back up the river, landing above the funeral pyres. Across India Or, Live Boys in the Far East Then he gathered together the trees he had uprooted and made a huge funeral pyre, such as was used by the ancients in burning their dead. Young Folks Treasury, Volume 2 (of 12) From her mouth, O sinless monarch, froth mixed with milk fell upon the funeral pyre of Rajadharman. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 Theseus gave Arcite a costly funeral, and built his funeral pyre in the grove where Palamon had heard him lament on the morning of May. The Sources and Analogues of 'A Midsummer-night's Dream' Meantime a funeral pyre for the purpose of burning Miller to death had been erected in the center of the village. The Red Record Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynching in the United States Natives who were too poor to pay the bill for the funeral pyre threw the bodies of their friends into the river. Across India Or, Live Boys in the Far East She ascends the funeral pyre with Pollione, and in its flames they are purged of earthly crime. The Standard Operas (12th edition) Their Plots, Their Music, and Their Composers The daughters-in-law and the wives of the old king, afflicted with grief, having burnt his body on the funeral pyre, are proceeding, keeping the pyre to their right. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 His old shepherd playmates built his funeral pyre. Selections from Wordsworth and Tennyson Warriors! who from the cannon's mouth blow fire, Your fame to raise, Upon its blaze, Alas! ye do but light your funeral pyre! Pipe and Pouch The Smoker's Own Book of Poetry There are quite a lot of old wives in his political establishment, who cannot resist, what must, indeed, be their natural inclination, the call to immolate themselves on the funeral pyre. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, August 8, 1891 She mounts her steed, and dashes into the funeral pyre of Siegfried after returning the ring to the Rhine-daughters. The Standard Operas (12th edition) Their Plots, Their Music, and Their Composers Variegated with thousands of funeral pyres and teeming with heaps of armour and weapons, the vast plain looked like the drinking garden of the Destroyer himself used and abandoned recently. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 Eight Rutulian warriors he struck down, and captured them alive, destining them as victims to be offered to the shade of Pallas, and to drench with their blood the flames of the hero’s funeral pyre. The Children's Hour, Volume 3 (of 10) Time was building the funeral pyre for the Phoenix, and building it of the debris of ruined worlds. The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 Was it only ruined and fallen walls, or was it a funeral pyre as well? Audrey Adalgisa appears, and Norma announces her intention to place her children in the Virgin's hands, and send her and them to Pollione while she expiates her offence on the funeral pyre. The Standard Operas (12th edition) Their Plots, Their Music, and Their Composers Mr. F. Because �neas had jilted her, and so she stabbed herself on a funeral pyre after setting fire to it, you see. Punch, Or The London Charivari, Volume 102, March 12, 1892 They gathered about him with loud lamentations, and then prepared to erect his funeral pyre, hastening with axes into the thick surrounding woods, and cutting down huge oaks and pines and ash-trees. The Children's Hour, Volume 3 (of 10) Hence she must be slain that his spirit may depart in peace with her, as well as with the weapons and other possessions which are buried with him or burned upon his funeral pyre. Taboo and Genetics A Study of the Biological, Sociological and Psychological Foundation of the Family The desperate leaders of the Commune had determined that if they must perish, Paris itself should be their funeral pyre. France in the Nineteenth Century She orders a funeral pyre to be built, and Siegfried is laid thereon. The Standard Operas (12th edition) Their Plots, Their Music, and Their Composers After Alexander left the funeral pyre, he invited many of his friends and chief officers to dinner, and offered a prize to the man who could drink most unmixed wine. Plutarch's Lives Volume III. To escape imprisonment and to save their honor from the horrors of captivity, the women mounted the solemnly arranged funeral pyres, while all the men, clad in saffron hued garments, consecrated themselves to death. Akbar, Emperor of India He had the body and head of Pyrrhus decently arranged on a funeral pyre and burned. Plutarch's Lives, Volume II One night we stole on board the William Wilberforce, leaving the city desolate, filled with the smoke of funeral pyres, and the wailing of men and women. In the Wrong Paradise Rama refuses to credit her purity; so the poor little wife, preferring death to disgrace, begs permission to die on a funeral pyre. The Book of the Epic And now a widow, who, far from having mounted any funeral pyre, appeared to enjoy life immensely, had placed them under obligations. The Motor Maids in Fair Japan Gray wind-blown ashes, broken, toppling wall And ruined hearth—are these thy funeral pyre? The California Birthday Book Three whole months before the launching of the Alabama, had that patient little vessel been ploughing the seas, gathering, as it turned out, only additional fuel for her own funeral pyre. The Cruise of the Alabama and the Sumter In the ancient orient a wife was a precious possession, entirely subject to the will of her husband, and liable to be burned in his funeral pyre. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 09 Friedrich Hebbel and Otto Ludwig As for Gudrun, overwhelmed by the calamities which had visited her in the course of her life, she finally committed suicide by casting herself into the flames of a huge funeral pyre. The Book of the Epic Brynhild springs on to the funeral pyre, and dies with Sigurd. The Edda, Volume 2 The Heroic Mythology of the North, Popular Studies in Mythology, Romance, and Folklore, No. 13 “Who will avenge the deed on Höd and bring Baldr's slayer to the funeral pyre?” The Edda, Volume 1 The Divine Mythology of the North, Popular Studies in Mythology, Romance, and Folklore, No. 12 It was, perhaps, a fitting funeral pyre for them. The Khaki Boys over the Top Doing and Daring for Uncle Sam The funeral pyre was knocked down by a storm, and dogs devoured the half-burnt remains. Publications of the Scottish History Society, Volume 36 Journals of Sir John Lauder Lord Fountainhall with His Observations on Public Affairs and Other Memoranda 1665-1676 Then a funeral pyre is built, and the Iliad of Homer closes with brave Hector's obsequies. The Book of the Epic We remember how Hercules built and ascended his own funeral pyre. Symphonies and Their Meaning; Third Series, Modern Symphonies 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. The Edda, Volume 1 The Divine Mythology of the North, Popular Studies in Mythology, Romance, and Folklore, No. 12 Well," said Miss Watson, "it's been a very pleasant evening, though I wouldn't wonder if I had a nightmare about that funeral pyre … I always think, don't you, that there's something awful pathetic about Christmas? Penny Plain By his orders Alfsol's body was laid in state on a funeral pyre on his best ship. Legends of the Middle Ages Narrated with Special Reference to Literature and Art On its capture on the 21st July in that year, the heroic Manchu commandant seated himself among his records and then set fire to the building, making it his funeral pyre. The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 2 I fancied it came from a funeral pyre; we certainly smelled tar and petrol. My Home in the Field of Honor When the two Negroes were captured, they were tied to trees, and while the funeral pyres were being prepared they were forced to suffer the most fiendish tortures. A Social History of the American Negro Being a History of the Negro Problem in the United States. Including A History and Study of the Republic of Liberia At last the curtains were jerked apart, and revealed what seemed to be a funeral pyre. Penny Plain Since the ancient days of suttee when the wife mounted her husband's funeral pyre volumes have been written on the lot of the Indian widow. Lighted to Lighten: the Hope of India And, O monarch, proceeding towards the funeral pyre he beheld a large tree, tall as palmyra-palm, with gigantic shoulders and withered top. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Virata Parva Preparations were made for the obsequies and a funeral pyre erected. Folklore of the Santal Parganas On the way to the funeral pyre the accompanying multitude stretch out their hands toward her in token of admiration. Primitive Love and Love-Stories Arjuna recovers the bodies of Krishna and Balarama and places them on a funeral pyre. The Loves of Krishna in Indian Painting and Poetry It would make the task much simpler—the funeral pyre already lighted. O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920 I walked among the fields where they lay, and among their roughly piled graves, and not far from the heaps of the enemy's dead who were awaiting their funeral pyres. The Soul of the War I fancy she must have inherited it from an Indian ancestress, for her great-great-grandfather rescued a begum on her way to be burnt on her husband's funeral pyre. From out the Vasty Deep And, in the final scenes, the wife shows her great love for her husband by hastening to get ready for the funeral pyre to be burnt alive with his corpse. Primitive Love and Love-Stories This is precisely the division of functions made by Ovid, as the father sees Hercules perishing on the funeral pyre. Summer on the Lakes, in 1843 But the black man could see the funeral pyre; the distant glare of it was showing the whites of his eyes faintly to the master, when suddenly he stopped rowing. O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921 Travelers were waylaid, prospectors murdered and in many instances entire families wiped out, their homes becoming their funeral pyres. Reminiscences of a Pioneer Dido falls in love with Æneas; but he steals away from Carthage, and Dido, on a funeral pyre, puts an end to her life. Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook Many a peasant did not live to see his house go up in flames—his dwelling dyed by his own blood was now turned into a funeral pyre. In the Claws of the German Eagle My theory is that the mound was built by gradual accretion in the following manner: That when a death occurred a funeral pyre was erected on the mound, upon which the body was placed. A Further Contribution to the Study of the Mortuary Customs of the North American Indians Suddenly the space is filled with smoke, the tent-curtains shrivel up in flames, and the Pasha and his comrades find themselves encircled in what they well know is their funeral pyre. The Book of Enterprise and Adventure Being an Excitement to Reading. for Young People. a New and Condensed Edition. Here the Hindus bring the bodies of their dead and burn them on funeral pyres. Modern India If I had my way every book in existence would be placed on a huge funeral pyre and conflagrated instantly. Wild Wings A Romance of Youth This was a thing that they had always wanted to do, but it needed the great excitement of a funeral pyre and a parting from a beloved Phoenix to screw them up to the extravagance. The Phoenix and the Carpet That is, they dug a trench for each one and laid poles across it, with a funeral pyre on the poles. Arizona Nights Even late at night, the little valley was lit up by the funeral pyres. The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki As soon as the heart ceases to beat the undertakers, as we would call the men who attend to these arrangements, are sent for and preparation for the funeral pyre is commenced immediately. Modern India The light caught the great gems and called fires from them, the flames of the funeral pyre of a king. Prester John It was felt that Robert, as the pet of the Phoenix, ought to have the last melancholy pleasure of choosing the materials for its funeral pyre. The Phoenix and the Carpet Yet not all is said: For so to noxious humours fire consumes Our fleshly frame; but on the funeral pyre What bones have perished? Pharsalia; Dramatic Episodes of the Civil Wars This is the funeral pyre and Troy is dead That sparkled so the day I saw it first, And darkened slowly after. Helen of Troy and Other Poems Formerly they were burned upon the funeral pyres of their husbands. Modern India Did he voluntarily ignite his own funeral pyre? The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu The funeral pyre of Brighton is still blazing, and there is a very distant patch of scarlet in the western sky, which may mean trouble at Arundel or Chichester, possibly even at Portsmouth. The Poison Belt The vigour of a life For us is vanished: in our failing years Give us at least some pious hand to speed The parting soul, and light the funeral pyre. Pharsalia; Dramatic Episodes of the Civil Wars He is always ruining himself, and always rising, like the Phoenix, in renewed youth from the ashes of his funeral pyre. The Grand Old Man During ascent you are shown the impressions of the hands of the fifteen wives of one of the rajahs who were all burned in one grand holocaust upon his funeral pyre. Modern India Brighter and brighter grew the awesome light the light of what should be my funeral pyre—reddening the oily water and adding a new dread to the whispering, clammy horror of the pit. The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu The heathen wife seeks death on her husband's funeral pyre, but the Christian wife is often sent to death by a bullet in her brain, or a knife in her heart. The Woman's Bible For forked and furious, the fiery flung flashes, Gleam o'er the sad wreck like a funeral pyre; And louder and louder each thunder clap crashes. Cleveland Past and Present Its Representative Men It is still slaying; and the funeral pyres burn continually. Kokoro Japanese Inner Life Hints From all her fanes let solemn bells be tolled, Heap with kind hands her costly funeral pyre, And thus, with pæan sung and anthem rolled, Give her, unspotted, to the God of Fire. War Poetry of the South More proudly than the youth surveys That pile which thro' the gloom behind, Half lighted by the altar's fire, Glimmers—his destined funeral pyre! The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes Philoctetes, the hero after whom it is named, had lit the funeral pyre of Heracles on Oeta and had received from him his unconquerable bow and arrows. Authors of Greece Sita assured him of her innocence; but on his continuing to revile her, she ordered her funeral pyre to be built, since she would rather die by fire than live despised by Rama. National Epics An ancient Shaman priest was circling in front of the funeral pyre and shouting furiously. Tales of the Wilderness On a stated day, at Susa in Persia, Kalanos gave up his aged body by entering a funeral pyre in view of the whole Macedonian army. Autobiography of a Yogi Fast hurried on the greedy tongues of fire, To make of those dread mounds a funeral pyre, As raging onward o'er their victims broke, The fearful conflict of the fire and smoke. Home Lyrics He asked himself anxiously what his duty was, and begged that Reason would shed some light on his way, give him boldness to leap over the funeral pyre of his hopes. The Precipice This is the first funeral pyre lighted by your village in celebration of the last rites of foreign commerce. The Home and the World His people raised him a funeral pyre not far from the field and burnt him to ashes. Indian Fairy Tales One can still see on the walls the greasy soot which rose from the smoke of the funeral pyre where human bodies were consumed. The Companions of Jehu They laid him on the funeral pyre, and now Have Phocian envoys in a narrow urn Brought the poor ashes of that mighty frame For sepulture in his ancestral tomb. Specimens of Greek Tragedy — Aeschylus and Sophocles There it was placed on the funeral pyre; and the knights and all the army circled round it in solemn procession. The Gracchi Marius and Sulla Epochs of Ancient History They went to Italy 1818; he was drowned on a voyage to welcome Leigh Hunt to Italy; his body burned on a funeral pyre in the presence of Byron, Hunt, and Trelawney. It Can Be Done Poems of Inspiration Meantime his body was set adrift on a floating funeral pyre. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 15, January, 1859 There she had died, and there had come a stranger who had commanded him to build a funeral pyre. The Reign of Greed Why, the Brahmins have a regular ritual for dealing with cases of recovery on the funeral pyre—purification after defilement by the corpse-washers or something of the sort. Snake and Sword A Novel Sartor Resartus," apply with more force: "When the Phoenix is fanning her funeral pyre, will there not be sparks flying? Beacon Lights of History, Volume 09 European Statesmen A funeral pyre was hastily improvised, and the unparalleled honor accorded to the illustrious dead of being burned in view of the most sacred shrines of the city. The Youthful Wanderer An Account of a Tour through England, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany Moreover, it had not been difficult to prove that the very inn where Vezin stayed was built about 1700 upon the spot where the funeral pyres stood and the executions took place. Three John Silence Stories Basilio, who is ignorant of Elias’s identity, helps him to build a funeral pyre, on which his corpse and the madwoman’s are to be burned. The Reign of Greed O shades of maddened Nero and his early Christian fires, Could he have been in Belgium and have seen your funeral pyres! Rhymes of a Roughneck These did not have to submit to torture, and as corpses had the burning ships for their funeral pyre. Dio's Rome, Volume 3 An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek During The Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus And the mystery of the funeral pyre came again to Kazan and Gray Wolf. Kazan So they built a mighty funeral pyre for them with logs of resinous wood hewn in the dark forest that stretched inland, and they fortified the souls of the dead seamen with prayer and lamentation. By-Ways of Bombay The dusky warriors stood in groups around the funeral pyre, The scowl upon their knotted brows betrayed their vengeful ire. The Poetical Works of Mrs. Leprohon The burning house was the funeral pyre from which the loving spirit of Mrs. Senseman took its flight to eternal rest. Woman on the American Frontier A Valuable and Authentic History of the Heroism, Adventures, Privations, Captivities, Trials, and Noble Lives and Deaths of the "Pioneer Mothers of the Republic" It was believed that his soul ascended visibly amidst the flames of the funeral pyre. General History for Colleges and High Schools It is ridiculous to conceive anyone, demon or human, having ended his vengeance, fleeing over the ice to burn himself on a funeral pyre where no fuel could be found. Mrs. Shelley "Carry him to the funeral pyre!" said Odin, at length; and four of the Æsir stooped down and lifted their dead brother. Types of Children's Literature In her wrath she was as magnificent as the wife of—Aeneas at the funeral pyre of that great captain. Man on the Box That when a death occurred a funeral pyre was erected on the mound, upon which the body was placed. An Introduction to the mortuary customs of the North American Indians She tells the men to build a funeral pyre. The Wagner Story Book I never go there without feeling a terrible pity for those poor prodigals who stood beside its funeral pyre and saw their folly stripped down to the starkest of skeletons while they waited. The Prince of Graustark The funeral pyre was built, the body burnt, and the ashes carefully gathered together, and placed in the finely-wrought urn and painted cinerary, and this in one larger and coarser. The Naturalist in Nicaragua |
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