All 3 Uses of
pyre
in
The Island of Dr. Moreau
- I've been thinking we might make the brushwood into a pyre and burn his body—and those other things.†
Chpt 19 *pyre = a pile of wood or other burnable material
- 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.†
Chpt 19
- 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.†
Chpt 21
Definition:
a pile of wood or other burnable material -- especially to burn a dead body as in a funeral rite