funeral pile

They wanted to burn the condemned, and his house was to serve as a funeral pile.

This burning of widows is your custom; prepare the funeral pile.

The Holy Books were part of the funeral pile; their ashes are scattered to the wind.

Can the heart's flame die in the flame of the funeral pile?"

Are there no /women's/ hands to light thy funeral pile?"

Such was their mutual hate that, when their bodies were burned on the same funeral pile, the flames divided in two.

The body was then removed from the cross, the hands and feet fastened together, and it was thrown on the funeral pile.

Bodies were thrown out unburied, wood was wanting for funeral piles, men fought with one another for the possession of them.

When his obsequies were celebrated, Evadne cast herself on his funeral pile and perished.

The only traces of his funeral pile were, as a matter of fact, a mass of smoking and glittering ashes.

I shall ascend my funeral pile triumphantly and exult in the agony of the torturing flames.

The mournful funeral passed through the town, and the pale corpse was borne on a bier to the place of the funeral pile.

And on the twelfth day, as he was lying on the funeral pile, he returned to life and told them what he had seen in the other world.

The fire that on my bosom preys Is lone as some volcanic isle; No torch is kindled at its blaze - A funeral pile.

Daniel Henry Haigh, a noted Victorian scholar of Anglo-Saxon history and literature, is certain that "swell" means "burning", or "funeral pile".

The flame issuing from the funeral pile on which martyrs die an heroic death for their ideas is, in its way, as awe-inspiring as the flame from Sinai's height.

When Lucullus arrived he celebrated his funeral rites with great pomp, setting fire to the funeral pile with his own hand, and had a sumptuous monument erected to him.

The flame is said to have divided on the funeral pile which consumed tile bodies of Eteocles and Polynices, as if conscious of the enmity that actuated them while living.

I commit them all to your care, and I go to attend my husband, Ummed Singh Upadhya, with whose ashes on the funeral pile mine have been already three times mixed."

A few moments later the flames began to rise from the funeral pile, the crowd began to move, and the than was able to make his way through and reach one of the streets leading out of the square.

A bird, the only one of its kind, that after living five or six centuries in the Arabian desert, burned itself on a funeral pile and rose alive from the ashes with renewed youth, to live through another cycle.

They prepared a funeral pile, and would have burned the body, but it was nowhere to be found; but in its place a flower, purple within, and surrounded with white leaves, which bears the name and preserves the memory of Narcissus.

The Fiatooka was a large inclosed space with a lofty funeral pile in the middle, of a pyramidical form, round which, the bodies of the Chiefs had been laid for ages past, in a solemn range of rude dignity.

In the end the corpse was set on a funeral pile created near the Regia by using all the wooden things available in the Forum, like wooden benches, and then cremated with a great fire that lasted all the night long.