How To Use funeral pyre In A Sentence
- Another gem from this Steyn book: In a more culturally confident age, the British in India were faced with the practice of "suttee" - the tradition of burning widows on the funeral pyres of their husbands. Random feeds from Syndic8.com
- She crawled closer to the funeral pyre, rejoicing in its warmth, and slept.
- In the old orthodox society the Sati system of widows mounting the funeral pyre of their husbands was an atrocious practice.
- Her elegance belies the bitterness and revenge at her heart - a rather stylish and svelte old dear, for whom the funeral pyre seems a slightly unfair fate.
- A British district officer, coming upon a scene of suttee, was told by the locals that in Hindu culture it was the custom to cremate a widow on her husband's funeral pyre.
- It is like watching a nation busily engaged in heaping up its own funeral pyre. Could Someone Please Explain This To Me ?
- He cursed the vultures circling above his head, for he knew now his flesh would soon be torn to pieces by their cruel hooked beaks and he could hope for no salvation, nor a proper funeral pyre.
- The first season of Game of Thrones came to a fiery conclusion, and although we lost a major player in the game, another was reborn, phoenixlike, from the ashes of a funeral pyre. Game of Thrones' Emilia Clarke on the Fiery Finale: "Dragons Trump Everything"
- But the image of a nude Daenerys, sitting amid the ashes of Khal Drogo's funeral pyre as her three hatchling dragons emerge around their queen, didn't disappoint. Critic's Notebook: A Tale of Two Finales
- Sati was a Hindu funeral custom, now very rare and a serious criminal act in India, in which the dead man's widow would throw herself on her husband's funeral pyre in order to commit suicide.
