All 13 Uses
pyre
in
A Game of Thrones
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- When a man died, his mount was killed and placed beneath him on the funeral pyre, to carry him to the night lands.†
p. 711.8 *pyre = a pile of wood or other burnable material
- Hoster will be chiding me about the Redwyne girl even as we light his funeral pyre, damn his bones.†
p. 790.6
- You are my queen, my sword is yours, but do not ask me to stand aside as you climb on Drogo's pyre.†
p. 799.9
- The sun was going down when she called them back to carry his body to the pyre.†
p. 802.8
- "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.†
p. 802.9
- She climbed the pyre herself to place the eggs around her sun-and-stars.†
p. 803.2
- As she climbed down off the pyre, she noticed Mini Maz Duur watching her.†
p. 803.3
- Ser Jorah, take this maegi and bind her to the pyre.†
p. 803.4
- The godswife did not cry out as they dragged her to Khal Drogo's pyre and staked her down amidst his treasures.†
p. 803.5
- 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.†
p. 804.7
- He smiled, and the whip snaked down at the pyre, hissing.†
p. 805.8
- 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.†
p. 806.1
- With a belch of flame and smoke that reached thirty feet into the sky, the pyre collapsed and came down around her.†
p. 806.3
Definitions:
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(1)
(pyre) a pile of wood or other burnable material -- especially to burn a dead body as in a funeral rite
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)