pyre

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• Crematoriums had to build makeshift pyres to keep up with the demand, and there were reports that the outpouring of ash drifted so far it stained clothes a kilometer away.

• Then there are the pictures of front-line workers performing final rites — lighting pyres and lowering bodies into graves — of those they don’t even know.

• Three months later, those expectations have evaporated in the fumes from smoldering funeral pyres that dot the country’s cities.

• She also champions alternatives like natural burials, funeral pyres, and intimate ceremonies in the home.

• The greatest library ever assembled by the great civilizations of the ancient world—containing a vast ocean of knowledge now lost to us forever—was incinerated on a great pyre of papyrus.

• Thrown into the Middle East pyre, the Zionism-racism charge has been an accelerant, angering, alienating, polarizing both sides.

• Spectators took photographs of the pyre on their mobile phones.

• Daenerys built the funeral pyre for her husband, Khal Drogo, here and hatched three dragons after being abandoned by her khlassar.

• The light was beginning to fade and a funeral pyre was still smoking eerily in front of the temple.

• A cordon of soldiers, placed at a distance from the pyre, kept the inquisitive from drawing too near.

• Fergan and his assistants withdrew to the mob which the file of soldiers was holding back from the pyre.

• The was then lighted with a torch by a relative, who kept his face averted during the act.