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While cremation is not uncommon in the western world, open air funeral pyres are typically illegal.pyres = piles of wood or other burnable materials
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In 1829 India banned the Hindu custom of a widow's suicide on her husband's funeral pyre.
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I pulled her up to the pyre's top and lit the flames. (source)pyre = stacked wood (to burn a body)
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The soldiers of the common man may toss the banners of the old regime on the victory pyre, but soon enough trumpets will blare and pomp will take its place at the side of the throne, having once again secured its dominion over history and kings. (source)pyre = a fire intentionally started from a stack of wood or other burnable material
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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
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She was taken to a pyre where she was wound in a sheet and placed up on a platform built from sticks. (source)pyre = stacked wood (to burn a body)
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After claiming his body, the club had hauled it to the Indiana Dunes on Lake Michigan, where members erected an immense pyre. (source)pyre = stacked wood (to burn a body)
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Outside the tent, the red smoke of funeral pyres.† (source)pyres = piles of wood or other burnable materials
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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)
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Bog gases flared up in green pyres in the distance, as if in sympathy with Emma's light.† (source)pyres = piles of wood or other burnable materials
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Dido has stabbed herself on the burning pyre or altar she's made of all the objects connected to her vanished lover, Aeneas, who has sailed away to fulfill his destiny through warfare.† (source)pyre = a pile of wood or other burnable material
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He wept as he told us that he literally had to reach down into the graves, lift out and carry the decomposing bodies to the burning pyres.† (source)pyres = piles of wood or other burnable materials
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SHE WAS LYING ON A BURNING PYRE, HOT COALS BENEATH her back.† (source)PYRE = a pile of wood or other burnable material
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When the bodies were finally collected, they were burned in tall pyres like Hindus on the Ganges.† (source)pyres = piles of wood or other burnable materials
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He smiled, and the whip snaked down at the pyre, hissing.† (source)pyre = a pile of wood or other burnable material
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They were there to see pyres and flaming wheels, thousands of flags dipped in salute, thousands of uniformed mourners.† (source)pyres = piles of wood or other burnable materials
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