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Definition of Pyres
1. pyre [n] - See also: pyre
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pyres
Literary usage of Pyres
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Iliad of Homer by Homer, John Graham Cordery (1871)
"Till we have burn'd our dead on funeral-pyres : Though fight we on thereafter,
till the Gods Part us, and grant to one the victory. ..."
2. Poems of the Great War by John William Cunliffe (1916)
"THE pyres pyres in the night, in the night! And the roaring yellow and red.
Trooper, trooper, why so white ? We are out to gather our dead. ..."
3. Poems of the Great War by John William Cunliffe (1916)
"THE pyres pyres in the night, in the night! And the roaring yellow and red.
Trooper, trooper, why so white ? We are out to gather our dead. ..."
4. Hellenistic Pottery: Athenian and Imported Wheelmade Table Ware and Related by Susan I. Rotroff (1997)
"It has often been difficult to determine the precise relationship of the pyres
to the buildings in which they were found. In a number of instances, however, ..."
5. A Book of Verse of the Great War by William Reginald Wheeler (1917)
"Great dawns have shown the way When we have wandered. God, in the battle sway,
What have we squandered? THE pyres BY HERMANN ..."
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