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pyre sentence examples

  • There are burning pyres in my own backyard, because i don't have time to gather in the harvest.
  • The fire of the funeral pyre is lit by the eldest son.
  • Pyre debris, they must have been close.
  • Way ahead on dusk's horizon i could see the burning funeral pyre of animal carcasses below the broad hinton white horse.
  • In this indian custom, widows would lie on their husband's funeral pyre to die with them.
  • Pyre of animal carcasses below the broad hinton white horse.
  • They still haven't lit the pyre at the case closest to us.
  • I am reminded of the huge funeral pyres of cattle carcasses, which we saw last year.
  • Pyre goods was examined.
  • Broad also spoke of flames from the open funeral pyres being visible from twenty miles away.
  • Pyres of burning animals will live long in the memory.
  • Miles is distraught: his bride is deceased, but the least he can do is build a pyre for her funeral.
  • In western legend, the phoenix, or red bird, rises from the ashes of its own funeral pyre to live again.
  • Pyre burning could handle only a fraction of the balance, not least because it soon attracted a considerable public outcry.
  • Less than a mile away was a contemporary cremation pyre site by a stream.
  • There was plenty of wood left to create a funeral pyre.
  • Broad also spoke of flames from the open funeral pyres being visible from twenty miles away.
  • There is a sense of hubbub, with the onlookers of both sexes praying and reaching toward the unlit pyre.
  • Thursday 14th march report says foot-and-mouth pyres pose no lasting risk the risks posed by foot-and-mouth pyres are to be discussed in richmond.
  • The family turns a corner and is confronted with a vast pyre of burning cows, but nobody's talking about bse.

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