... Theimpatient priest grumbled and switched the torch from one hand to theother at the same time holding it closer to the tinder at the base ofthe pyre...
Edgar Rice Burroughs 「Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar」
...An ancient Greek robber or burglarthought he could silence and put to flight the fiercest watchdogsby carrying with him a brand plucked from a funeral pyre...
Sir James George Frazer 「The Golden Bough」
...When the pyre is half consumed, the bystanders kindle thetorches at the expiring flames and carry them into the neighbouringorchards, fields, and gardens, wherever there are fruit-trees...
Sir James George Frazer 「The Golden Bough」
...After the evening servicethey lighted their lanterns at the consecrated candle in thechurch, and ran with them at full speed to the pyre, each strivingto get there first...
Sir James George Frazer 「The Golden Bough」
...Agreat pile of firewood has meanwhile been heaped up about it, andthe women run round the pyre cursing in shrill voices the wickedspirit who has wrought all this evil...
Sir James George Frazer 「Balder The Beautiful, Vol. I.」
...He did not wash his hands or comb his head beforehe brought Balder's antagonist on to the pyre...
Sir James George Frazer 「Balder The Beautiful, Vol. I.」
...Being condemned to death, the straw-man is led through thevillage, shot, and burned upon a pyre...
Sir James George Frazer 「Balder The Beautiful, Vol. I.」
...After the evening service they lighted theirlanterns at the consecrated candle in the church, and ran with themat full speed to the pyre, each striving to get there first...
Sir James George Frazer 「Balder The Beautiful, Vol. I.」
...The man who had been thefirst to reach the pyre and to kindle it was rewarded on EasterSunday by the women, who gave him coloured eggs at the church door...
Sir James George Frazer 「Balder The Beautiful, Vol. I.」
...Rushing quickly toward the crowd, he shouts: "Let the damsel be, you wicked folk! Having committed no crime, it is not right that she should be cast upon a pyre or into a furnace...
Chretien DeTroyes 「Four Arthurian Romances」
...Sue could see no trace of the creature in its pyre of slow-swirlingdust...
Various 「Astounding Stories, April, 1931」
...“It is the funeral pyre of my father,”the girl answered simply...
Various 「Astounding Stories of Super-Science, March 1930」
...And there are those likeZitlan who would turn the world overto ravage and rape, and then convert itinto a blazing pyre, if they had theirway...
Various 「Astounding Stories of Super-Science, March 1930」
...It goes where the corpse of Cæsar went anhour after the extinction of his pyre...
Camille Flammarion Frances A. Welby 「Astronomy for Amateurs」
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