All 7 Uses
pyre
in
City of Heavenly Fire
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- No Downworlders will hold us accountable for not sacrificing two of our children to Jonathan Morgenstern's pyre of corpses.†
p. 295.8pyre = a pile of wood or other burnable material
- The bodies were burning on orderlg rows of pyres that had been set up along the road to Brocelind Forest.†
p. 314.1 *pyres = piles of wood or other burnable materials
- The sun was beginning to set behind a cloudy white sky, and as each pyre went up, it burst in orange sparks.†
p. 314.3pyre = a pile of wood or other burnable material
- Brother Enoch, in his bone-colored robes, was striding up and down the line of pyres.†
p. 315.3pyres = piles of wood or other burnable materials
- He looked back at the pyres, at the black smoke smearing the air.†
p. 316.4
- He looked over at the pyres, at the lengthening shadows of the dead.†
p. 318.2
- "All right," Magnus said, and Clary could tell he was bracing himself, nerving himself up as if he were about to throw his body onto a pyre.†
p. 627.9pyre = 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)