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pyres
/ˈpaɪɚz/
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What does pyres mean?
noun
- plural of pyre
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈpaɪɚz/
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It has an unspeakable, wild, Hindoo odor about it, such as may lurk in the vicinity of funereal pyres.
Woven from their tomb, and one with it, The night wherein we press; Their thousand pitchy pyres have lit Your flaming nakedness.
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Banks of smoke went off horizontally at the back like passing clouds, and behind these burned hidden pyres, illuminating the semi-transparent sheet of smoke to a lustrous yellow uniformity.
Passion for power: the glowing scourge of the hardest of the heart-hard; the cruel torture reserved for the cruellest themselves; the gloomy flame of living pyres.