All 4 Uses of
pyre
in
The House of the Spirits
- 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.†
Chpt 1 *pyre = a pile of wood or other burnable material
- 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.†
Chpt 12
- 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.†
Chpt 13
- Smuggled out by certain friendly spirits, they miraculously escaped the infamous pyre in which so many other family papers perished.†
Chpt Epil.
Definition:
a pile of wood or other burnable material -- especially to burn a dead body as in a funeral rite