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funeral pyre
1. Though it might make her a traitor to the empire, she would take this secret to her funeral pyre
2. “We will construct a funeral pyre for Grumbold in a matter of hours
3. I burned their corpses in a funeral pyre those I couldn’t reach and dug graves for those that I could
4. The Funeral Pyre
5. (widow burning) on the funeral pyres of her husband
6. Nothing could prepare him for the flaming horror of watching the city where he had grown up erupt into what equated to a funeral pyre, buildings launching smudges of black smoke into the dawn time sky to obscure the rising red orb of the sun
7. The fuel tank of the car then exploded, trapping its dazed occupants inside a funeral pyre
8. The North Korean tank turned at once into a funeral pyre for its crew, which died while screaming horribly
9. funeral pyre then rose from its own ashes as a metaphor for the death of
10. Millie looked down to see Molly's body strike a 1929 Rolls Royce, engulfing her in a viking funeral pyre of burning chrome
11. They carried the body of Leaf and made a funeral pyre and
12. Consigning his son’s body to the flames on the funeral pyre, Pathrudu felt the quirk of destiny, ‘How our roles have got reversed by fate!’, and as he saw Sathyam’s body engulfed in flames, thought Raja Rao, ‘How tragic it is that the triumph of love was snatched away by the hand of death!’
13. Despite their best efforts, the people of Adams feared they were beholding the funeral pyre of their dreams
14. “Like seeking food from the funeral pyre”—the last extremity is exhausted
15. The maneuver did not succeed as well as she expected, however, for though just in the act of setting fire to a funeral pyre, the Professor dropped his torch, metaphorically speaking, and made a dive after the little blue ball
16. On the twelfth day he was placed on the funeral pyre and there he came to life again, and told what he had seen in the world below
17. Her heart turned to ice, while her cheeks flamed up as if scorched by the blaze of a funeral pyre consuming all her earthly affections
18. But Relentless’ blazing funeral pyre had provided a grim yet useful navigation beacon, and at least she hadn’t exploded
19. “In India, when a man dies he is burned, instead of buried, and his wife always climbs on the funeral pyre and is burned with him
20. He knew then that he'd found a friend, a love, a wife, one who would a week from now lie with him atop the funeral pyre as sunlight undressed their flesh from bone
21. But he knew without hearing where Dog had rattled down hills where autumn lay in cereal crispness, where children lay in funeral pyres, in rustling heaps, the leaf-buried but watchful dead, as Dog and the world blew by
22. He knew then that he’d found a friend, a love, a wife, one who would a week from now lie with him atop the funeral pyre as sunlight undressed their flesh from bone