All 10 Uses
pyre
in
A Clash of Kings
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- The gods in the pyre were scarcely recognizable anymore.†
p. 149.9 *pyre = a pile of wood or other burnable material
- 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.†
p. 188.9
- Evil King Harren had walled himself up inside, so Aegon unleashed his dragons and turned the castle into a pyre.†
p. 213.2
- 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.†
p. 423.2pyres = piles of wood or other burnable materials
- 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.†
p. 692.8pyre = a pile of wood or other burnable material
- He made a great pyre of the trees as an offering to his new god.†
p. 751.2
- The kiss of wildfire turned proud ships into funeral pyres and men into living torches.†
p. 837.3pyres = piles of wood or other burnable materials
- From the pyres of the dead rose black columns of smoke and white-hot ashes.†
p. 932.1
- He watched their naked bodies lifted by arm and leg, to be carried swinging to the pyres to join their fellows.†
p. 932.5
- They burned Qhorin Halfhand where he'd fallen, on a pyre made of pine needles, brush, and broken branches.†
p. 954.8pyre = a pile of wood or other burnable material
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)