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  • Bog gases flared up in green pyres in the distance, as if in sympathy with Emma's light.†   (source)
  • I mean, religion is complicated there, so it's a little Buddhist and a little Shinto, but y'all don't care—point being that she was on this, like, funeral pyre or whatever.†   (source)
  • Offerings are made to pictures of their grandparents and his father, rice poured into a pyre that they are forbidden by the management of the hotel to ignite.†   (source)
  • When a man died, his mount was killed and placed beneath him on the funeral pyre, to carry him to the night lands.†   (source)
  • SHE WAS LYING ON A BURNING PYRE, HOT COALS BENEATH her back.†   (source)
  • H is for hydrogen, a weight of one;
    When fission's split, as brightly lit
    As hot as any sun.
    He is for helium, a weight of two;
    The noble gas, the ghostly pass
    That lifts the world anew.
    Li is for lithium, a weight of three;
    A funeral pyre, when touched with fire—
    And deadly sleep for me.
    Be is for beryllium, a weight of four ….
    —From the Elemental Prayers
    ("Prayer and Study," The Book of Shhh)
    During the summers I have to help my uncle at the Stop-N-Save on Mondays,…†   (source)
  • In an instant the whole creature was in flames, a prancing, writhing pyre on the snow.†   (source)
  • For a second the pyre was a perfect sculpture of flame, a blue and yellow Piet with a four-armed madonna holding a blazing Christ figure.†   (source)
  • After claiming his body, the club had hauled it to the Indiana Dunes on Lake Michigan, where members erected an immense pyre.†   (source)
  • But he rarely uses it The Graveyard Daemons will take the avatar to the Pyre, an eternal, underground bonfire beneath the center of The Black Sun, and burn it As soon as the flames consume the avatar, it will vanish from the Metaverse, and then its owner will be able to sign on as usual, creating a new avatar to run around in.†   (source)
  • They were there to see pyres and flaming wheels, thousands of flags dipped in salute, thousands of uniformed mourners.†   (source)
  • Suppose we're next to find ourselves on a pyre?†   (source)
  • I did what I had to to protect my own, and in the end I gave them more than they ever deserved: the funeral pyre awarded only to the greatest warriors of the Clave!†   (source)
  • : 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.†   (source)
  • And I found the remains of my father in the funeral pyre.†   (source)
  • It caught at once; long tongues of orange fire licked rapidly across the pyre.†   (source)
  • When they were gone, the albino came out, pulled the cups from the corpse, decided to burn the body on the garbage pyre back behind the castle.†   (source)
  • When they finished interring their casualties, the Varden retrieved their arrows, then built a pyre in the center of the village, stripped the soldiers of their gear, dragged them onto the pile of wood, and set it ablaze.†   (source)
  • When the bodies were finally collected, they were burned in tall pyres like Hindus on the Ganges.†   (source)
  • A little distance from the pyre, there are two stacks of wood.†   (source)
  • The house was a funeral pyre.†   (source)
  • From there they were hauled out to inhabit the dreams of his descendants, until they were mistakenly burned half a century later on an infamous pyre.†   (source)
  • There were parachutes, one, two, three… four, and then the plane gyrated into a spin and fell the rest of the way to the ground, fluttering insensibly inside its vivid pyre like a shred of colored tissue paper.†   (source)
  • Each man, woman, and child carried a blazing torch, ready to light the pyre at the appropriate moment.†   (source)
  • At the base of the pyre stood the crib—hewn with such love and joyful expectation—that the Livesedge child had died in.†   (source)
  • They throw up a mound for the funeral pyre, for whatever arms or legs or heads my haste has left behind.†   (source)
  • Pile them all onto a great pyre and beg my forgiveness!†   (source)
  • If Francisco had wanted a worthy funeral pyre for d'Anconia Copper, she thought, he —had succeeded.†   (source)
  • But there was no vindictiveness in this pronouncement, any more than there was in the remarks Lotte made when—short of breath one morning, panting and pausing with Sophie on the first-floor landing as they ascended to their labors—she sniffed that ambient odor of the Birkenau funeral pyre and murmured that those Jews deserved it.†   (source)
  • I will go now to my pyre.†   (source)
  • Peter, meanwhile, had fanned the fire into a blazing pyre of yacca.†   (source)
  • Eight pyres blazed against the predawn sky.†   (source)
  • I could not avoid the thought, which came from my own uneasy conscience, harsh and bitter, as I watched them lift her up, light as dust, on to the bier; as mourners came with flowers, as oil and camphor were laid unstinted on the pyre, as rosewater and sandalwood paste were sprinkled on her corpse.†   (source)
  • She dipped a green branch in the stream, threw it on the pyre.†   (source)
  • There was a silly damn bird called a Phoenix back before Christ: every few hundred years he built a pyre and burned himself up.   (source)
    pyre = a pile of wood
  • As the chains were wound over their body at the stake, and a flame set to the pyre,   (source)
    pyre = stacked wood (to burn a body)
  • And after, when the pyre burned, I did not weep.†   (source)
  • You are my queen, my sword is yours, but do not ask me to stand aside as you climb on Drogo's pyre.†   (source)
  • He smiled, and the whip snaked down at the pyre, hissing.†   (source)
  • She died not long after, but my father did not stay to watch her pyre burn.†   (source)
  • She climbed the pyre herself to place the eggs around her sun-and-stars.†   (source)
  • I pulled her up to the pyre's top and lit the flames.†   (source)
  • As she climbed down off the pyre, she noticed Mini Maz Duur watching her.†   (source)
  • The sun was going down when she called them back to carry his body to the pyre.†   (source)
  • Ser Jorah, take this maegi and bind her to the pyre.†   (source)
  • Hoster will be chiding me about the Redwyne girl even as we light his funeral pyre, damn his bones.†   (source)
  • Obara would make Oldtown our father's funeral pyre, but I am not so greedy.†   (source)
  • The gods in the pyre were scarcely recognizable anymore.†   (source)
  • Dany's riding clothes were stained and sooty as she stepped back from the pyres.†   (source)
  • Don't they put anything on your funeral pyre?"†   (source)
  • The pyre can be seen for miles, if there are any eyes to see it.†   (source)
  • Jocelyn had her head turned aside, away from the burning pyre.†   (source)
  • She stared at the hearth like it was her own funeral pyre.†   (source)
  • We will burn him on a pyre until he is only golden bones.†   (source)
  • He hands the torch to Stephen and helps him hop to the gasoline-soaked pyre.†   (source)
  • They'd modified the boat, turning it into floating funeral pyre for the three Valkyries.†   (source)
  • He would sooner give me a pyre than a ship, he said as much, but if I do him this favor ….†   (source)
  • He made a great pyre of the trees as an offering to his new god.†   (source)
  • He looked over at the pyres, at the lengthening shadows of the dead.†   (source)
  • He rushed the pyre and thrust his torch into the wood.†   (source)
  • In Westeros the dead of House Targaryen were given to the flames, but who would light her pyre here?†   (source)
  • From the pyres of the dead rose black columns of smoke and white-hot ashes.†   (source)
  • The Magnar gave orders, and his men began to gather fuel for a pyre.†   (source)
  • On the village green, the queen's men built their pyre.†   (source)
  • He looked back at the pyres, at the black smoke smearing the air.†   (source)
  • Still, the sword would traditionally go into your grave, or get burned on your pyre.†   (source)
  • If not, there would be other pyres, and Ser Clayton Suggs might get his heart's desire.†   (source)
  • Brother Enoch, in his bone-colored robes, was striding up and down the line of pyres.†   (source)
  • Aerys meant to have the greatest funeral pyre of them all.†   (source)
  • Many left weapons, coins, or other keepsakes on the funeral pyres.†   (source)
  • The kiss of wildfire turned proud ships into funeral pyres and men into living torches.†   (source)
  • "Build a pyre and burn this body," he said to the monks, not turning toward them.†   (source)
  • That which was destroyed upon the pyre at Worldsend was a counterfeit.†   (source)
  • I have seen an unlit pyre set at the end of the world, with fogs stirring all about it.†   (source)
  • Immolate herself on your funeral pyre?†   (source)
  • But Jyoti was now a sati-goddess; she had burned herself in a trash-can—funeral pyre behind a boarded-up motel in Florida.†   (source)
  • High above on the balcony, like a soul tearing free of its corporeal restrains, a luminous pyre of flame erupted from the camerlegno's center.†   (source)
  • Then the thing in the sky was gone and it might only have been smoke or a great flapping swatch of wallpaper after all, and there was only the Overlook, a flaming pyre in the roaring throat of the night.†   (source)
  • These aren't funeral pyres.†   (source)
  • The six of them watched as the shadow of the bluff fell behind, the unlighted beacon pyre receding as a faint gleam of starlight on pale wood, and then there were only the sky and night and swaying circles of lantern light.†   (source)
  • A pyre of mystical fire …. an angel materializing from out of the crowd …. her soft hand taking his and leading him into the night …. guiding his exhausted, battered body through the streets …. leading him here …. to this suite …. propping him half-sleeping in a scalding hot shower …. leading him to this bed …. and watching over him as he fell asleep like the dead.†   (source)
  • Beyond the town were tents, pavilions, campfires, cooking fires, and great flaming pyres, too large for function, too large for anything except to serve as a welcome to the returning isles.†   (source)
  • I built the pyre with my own hands.†   (source)
  • With a belch of flame and smoke that reached thirty feet into the sky, the pyre collapsed and came down around her.†   (source)
  • The godswife did not cry out as they dragged her to Khal Drogo's pyre and staked her down amidst his treasures.†   (source)
  • And there came a second crack, loud and sharp as thunder, and the smoke stirred and whirled around her and the pyre shifted, the logs exploding as the fire touched their secret hearts.†   (source)
  • The pyre roared in the deepening dusk like some great beast, drowning out the fainter sound of Mirri Maz Duur's screaming and sending up long tongues of flame to lick at the belly of the night.†   (source)
  • "Oil," she commanded, and they brought forth the jars and poured them over the pyre, soaking the silks and the brush and the bundles of dry grass, until the oil trickled from beneath the logs and the air was rich with fragrance.†   (source)
  • Eragon ran a hand over his face and looked up at the stars showing through Farthen Dur's distant top, which were smudged with sooty smoke from the pyre.†   (source)
  • They would say that he had fought like no man had ever fought, and she would carry his body to the funeral pyre.†   (source)
  • Lord Sunglass had been confined in the cells beneath Dragonstone for a time, as had Ser Hubard Rambton's sons; all of them had ended on the pyre.†   (source)
  • Several of the birds managed to escape, flapping frantically away while-the others burned in a squawking pyre of crisped flesh and singed feathers.†   (source)
  • I had no desire to see the faces of the vampires they had executed, half afraid that I might recognize someone in the smoldering pyres.†   (source)
  • A few miles to the south, a swirling pyre of flames and black smoke was all that remained of the Zhang family mansion.†   (source)
  • The bodies were burning on orderlg rows of pyres that had been set up along the road to Brocelind Forest.†   (source)
  • But he'd gotten halfway to the pyre, a stacked pile of stripped wood, white as bones, and realized he could go no farther.†   (source)
  • Ice glints on the sides of the pyre.†   (source)
  • Several of the birds managed to escape, flapping frantically away while-the others burned in a squawking pyre of crisped flesh and singed feathers.†   (source)
  • Smuggled out by certain friendly spirits, they miraculously escaped the infamous pyre in which so many other family papers perished.†   (source)
  • Quhuru Mo would not allow a funeral pyre aboard the Cinnamon Wind, so Aemon's corpse had been stuffed inside a cask of blackbelly rum to preserve it until the ship reached Oldtown.†   (source)
  • He leans against the open door, facing the night, and the sky above him burns with the cold light of ten thousand pyres marking the time ticking down.†   (source)
  • I was so maddened I could have danced around the pyre where they roasted alive; I would have laughed while their ashes smoldered.†   (source)
  • He carried death inside him in the memories of his mother and the ten-foot pyres and the bones along the road and the conveyor belt carrying hundreds into the furnace of the power plant at camp, the dead burned to light their barracks and heat their water and keep them warm.†   (source)
  • They discussed various alternatives, from throwing them in the river to burning them on a pyre, but finally decided that the most practical solution would be to bury them in plastic bags in a safe, secret location, in case they were ever needed for a nobler cause.†   (source)
  • A thin trail of smoke lingered over the funeral pyre beyond towering boulders a hundred meters from the camp.†   (source)
  • One man is pouring gasoline from a rectangular tin carefully onto all the logs of the pyre and another is binding a cloth onto the end of a stick.†   (source)
  • Edward was leaning across the operating table that had been my pyre, his hand reached out toward me, his expression anxious.†   (source)
  • The priests walk slowly around the pyre, saying antique prayers, and the crowd, all in black, ignoring the black priests, keens.†   (source)
  • The books from Jaime's den were piled in the courtyard, doused with gasoline, and set on fire in an infamous pyre that was fed with the magic books from the enchanted trunks of GreatUncle Marcos, the remaining copies of Nicolas's esoteric treatise, the leather-bound set of the complete works of Marx, and even Trueba's opera scores, producing a scandalous bonfire that filled the neighborhood with smoke and that, in normal times, would have brought fire trucks from every direction.†   (source)
  • At first it was arranged to send the body to Spokane, but some carpenters told Obasan they would build a pyre and take turns keeping the fire going throughout the night at the old silver mine.†   (source)
  • Caius stood alone beside the blazing remains of Irina, the metal object in his hand still throwing a thick jet of flame into the pyre.†   (source)
  • The people listen silent and solemn to the old Shaper's song on the young man's lips, and the pyre where the old man lies stands waiting for fire.†   (source)
  • One evening when she had given up the search for the day, she sat down beside a naked woman she'd seen earlier who was aimlessly chipping wood to make a pyre on which to cremate a dead baby.†   (source)
  • "No Downworlders will hold us accountable for not sacrificing two of our children to Jonathan Morgenstern's pyre of corpses."†   (source)
  • Her hair had burned away in Drogo's pyre, so her handmaids garbed her in the skin of the hrakkar Drogo had slain, the white lion of the Dothraki sea.†   (source)
  • The blowing snow had covered the ashes at the base of the pyre and crept up the dead man's leg as far as his ankle.†   (source)
  • Men light the pyre.†   (source)
  • They burned Qhorin Halfhand where he'd fallen, on a pyre made of pine needles, brush, and broken branches.†   (source)
  • The sun was beginning to set behind a cloudy white sky, and as each pyre went up, it burst in orange sparks.†   (source)
  • Ser Corliss lit the first pyre with the torch, then thrust it into the wood at the base of the second.†   (source)
  • Stannis Baratheon stood grim-faced by the funeral pyre as the lad's body was consigned to the flames.†   (source)
  • Evil King Harren had walled himself up inside, so Aegon unleashed his dragons and turned the castle into a pyre.†   (source)
  • "All right," Magnus said, and Clary could tell he was bracing himself, nerving himself up as if he were about to throw his body onto a pyre.†   (source)
  • But when a knight died, his shield was taken down, that it might go with him to his pyre or his tomb, and over the years and centuries fewer and fewer knights had taken the black.†   (source)
  • All morning she watched the Bloody Mummers strip the dead of their valuables and drag the corpses to the Flowstone Yard, where a pyre was laid to dispose of them.†   (source)
  • I need oil as well, for the pyre.†   (source)
  • He watched their naked bodies lifted by arm and leg, to be carried swinging to the pyres to join their fellows.†   (source)
  • The middle wall, forty feet high, was grey granite alive with scenes of war: the clash of sword and shield and spear, arrows in flight, heroes at battle and babes being butchered, pyres of the dead.†   (source)
  • Only the birth of her dragons amidst the fire and smoke of Khal Drogo's funeral pyre had spared Dany herself from being dragged back to Vaes Dothrak to live out the remainder of her days amongst the crones of the dosh khaleen.†   (source)
  • …lip, where there was colorless hair like the peachfuzz on the cheek of a boy (I could not see it under her fingers but in the fingertips of my own hand I had the memory of it) and I would smell the burning leaves, but I could not see what it was she looked at--outside the window it was too bright, a wide whiteness like the heart of a fire with vague shapes being consumed in it like kings with melting crowns burning up on a pyre: I put my arm around her and said, "I love you, Mommy.†   (source)
  • Chapter 7 The Pyre of Denethor When the dark shadow at the Gate withdrew Gandalf still sat motionless.†   (source)
  • 'Denethor has gone to the Tombs,' said Pippin, 'and he has taken Faramir, and he says we are all to burn, and he will not wait, and they are to make a pyre and burn him on it, and Faramir as well.†   (source)
  • To my pyre!†   (source)
  • What remained was taken in procession to the pyre at Worldsend, placed there upon it, burned amidst chanting.†   (source)
  • "The pyre still blazes," said Yama.†   (source)
  • And anyone who happens to be among the First had bloody well better be sure whether he wants quick deification or the pyre when he walks into the Hall of Karma these days.†   (source)
  • The one who had been a sailmaker turned his eyes to the pyre nearest the gate-the last to be ignited, its flames were only just now reaching the top, where lay the gross bulk of one who wore a robe of black, a circle of yellow on the breast.†   (source)
  • Citragupta, serving man to Lord Yama, built a mighty pyre at Worldsend, out of aromatic woods, gums, incenses, perfumes and costly cloths; and upon the pyre he laid the Talisman of the Binder and the great blue-feather cloak that had belonged to Srit, chief among the Kataputna demons; he also placed there the shape-changing jewel of the Mothers, from out the Dome of the Glow, and a robe of saffron from the purple grove of Alundil, which was said to have belonged to Tathagatha the…†   (source)
  • One rajah and two high priests died of poisoning, quite colorfully, and pyres were built to accommodate their bluish remains.†   (source)
  • Lord Yama received his first; and Brahma, watching the smoke arise from the pyres, wondered where he really was.†   (source)
  • And Croesus, who was wrong, taught his lesson with tears to Cyrus, who spared him from the pyre.†   (source)
  • Henchmen kindled the pyre Close-pressed by the mob.†   (source)
  • They walked to the pyre, and their step did not falter.†   (source)
  • They brought the Transgressor out into the square and they led them to the pyre.†   (source)
  • The corpse detail carried the bodies to a clearing outside, placed them on pyres of wood from ruined houses, burned them, put some of the ashes in envelopes intended for exposed X-ray plates, marked the envelopes with the names of the deceased, and piled them, neatly and respectfully, in stacks in the main office.†   (source)
  • A picture rose before him of the red glow of the pyres mirrored on a wine-dark, slumbrous sea, battling torches whirling sparks across the darkness, and thick, fetid smoke rising toward the watchful sky.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • Or, according to another tradition, at the shore he immolated himself upon a funeral pyre, and birds with multi-colored feathers arose from his ashes.†   (source)
  • The Crash was Einhorn's Cyrus and the bank failures his pyre, the poolroom his exile from Lydia and the hoodlums Cambyses, whose menace he managed, somehow, to get round.†   (source)
  • Someone will read as moral That the people of Rome or Warsaw Haggle, laugh, make love As they pass by martyrs' pyres.†   (source)
  • But the flames rose and we could not guess the word…… What—even if we have to burn for it like the Saint of the Pyre—what is the Unspeakable Word?†   (source)
  • The Saint of the pyre had seen the future when he chose me as his heir, as the heir of all the saints and all the martyrs who came before him and who died for the same cause, for the same word, no matter what name they gave to their cause and their truth.†   (source)
  • He lies slain by the coward hounds He raised to glory from the mire; And Erin's hopes and Erin's dreams Perish upon her monarch's pyre.†   (source)
  • On the nearer slopes the sugar-maples wavered like pyres of light; lower down was a massing of grey orchards, and here and there the lingering green of an oak-grove.†   (source)
  • A thin warm rain was falling on the new scrubby woods and underbrush and they passed great funeral pyres of sorted duds, shells, bombs, grenades, and equipment, helmets, bayonets, gun stocks and rotten leather, abandoned six years in the ground.†   (source)
  • I've been thinking we might make the brushwood into a pyre and burn his body—and those other things.†   (source)
  • I burnt both of the bodies on a pyre of brushwood; but after that I saw that unless I left the island my death was only a question of time.†   (source)
  • In the morning I would gather some provisions in the dingey, and after setting fire to the pyre before me, push out into the desolation of the high sea once more.†   (source)
  • It has an unspeakable, wild, Hindoo odor about it, such as may lurk in the vicinity of funereal pyres.†   (source)
  • At this moment Sir Francis and the guide seized Phileas Fogg, who, in an instant of mad generosity, was about to rush upon the pyre.†   (source)
  • Banks of smoke went off horizontally at the back like passing clouds, and behind these burned hidden pyres, illuminating the semi-transparent sheet of smoke to a lustrous yellow uniformity.†   (source)
  • The ashes of the original British pyre which blazed from that summit lay fresh and undisturbed in the barrow beneath their tread.†   (source)
  • …that the labour and hazard of an investigation — of which the smallest results have been slowly pieced together, in the pressure of arduous avocations, under grinding penurious apprehensions, at rise of morn, at dewy eve, in the shadows of night, under the watchful eye of one whom it were superfluous to call Demon — combined with the struggle of parental Poverty to turn it, when completed, to the right account, may be as the sprinkling of a few drops of sweet water on my funeral pyre.†   (source)
  • 'Ay, but that man had right and reason, for Krishna Himself appeared in a vision promising him Paradise without the burning-pyre if he journeyed to Prayag.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • If all the injustice it has committed and all the misery it has caused could only be locked up with it, and the whole burnt away in a great funeral pyre—why so much the better for other parties than the parties in Jarndyce and Jarndyce!†   (source)
  • The old rajah's body, indeed, now appeared upon the burning pyre; and the priests, recovered from their terror, perceived that an abduction had taken place.†   (source)
  • It was Passepartout himself, who had slipped upon the pyre in the midst of the smoke and, profiting by the still overhanging darkness, had delivered the young woman from death!†   (source)
  • Phileas Fogg and his companions, mingling in the rear ranks of the crowd, followed; and in two minutes they reached the banks of the stream, and stopped fifty paces from the pyre, upon which still lay the rajah's corpse.†   (source)
  • The old rajah was not dead, then, since he rose of a sudden, like a spectre, took up his wife in his arms, and descended from the pyre in the midst of the clouds of smoke, which only heightened his ghostly appearance.†   (source)
  • This could only be determined at the moment and the place themselves; but it was certain that the abduction must be made that night, and not when, at break of day, the victim was led to her funeral pyre.†   (source)
  • The Parsee, leading the others, noiselessly crept through the wood, and in ten minutes they found themselves on the banks of a small stream, whence, by the light of the rosin torches, they perceived a pyre of wood, on the top of which lay the embalmed body of the rajah, which was to be burned with his wife.†   (source)
  • And now, too, Patroklos' pyre would not flame up.†   (source)
  • Then to the fertile plain of Troy they came and fell upon the pyre.†   (source)
  • Akhilleus left the pyre and lay down spent, and sweet sleep overtook him at a bound.†   (source)
  • Sheep and shambling cattle, then, in droves they sacrificed and dressed before the pyre.†   (source)
  • He slung the bodies of four fine horses on the pyre, and groaned.†   (source)
  • They added timber and enlarged the pyre to a hundred feet a side.†   (source)
  • Apart from the pyre he stood and cut the red-gold hair that he had grown for the river Sperkheios.†   (source)
  • So huge the boar was, no small band could master him, and he brought many to the dolorous pyre.†   (source)
  • Not yet will my people be desolate, nor the pyre be lit in my house and my dwelling burnt on the fire.†   (source)
  • Pack animals were his target first, and dogs, but soldiers, too, soon felt transfixing pain from his hard shots, and pyres burned night and day.†   (source)
  • Before your funeral pyre I'll cut the throats of twelve resplendent children of the Trojans— that is my murdering fury at your death.†   (source)
  • When they had reached the place Akhilleus chose they put the body down and built the pyre of timber, high as they could wish.†   (source)
  • Dismiss these from the pyre to make a meal, and we who are closest to the dead will care for what is to be done now.†   (source)
  • Just so on their side the Akhaians piled dead bodies on their pyre, sick at heart, and burned it down.†   (source)
  • They did his will: dampened the pyre with wine in every part where flame had licked its way and a bed of ashes fallen.†   (source)
  • Up he sat, then spoke out: "Son of Atreus, noblemen of Akhaias host, begin by wetting down the pyre with tawny wine to quench whatever fire hangs on.†   (source)
  • Next they drew a circle for a mound around the pyre, and laid stones on the line, and made a mound of earth.†   (source)
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