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pyres

/ˈpaɪɚz/

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What does pyres mean?

noun

  1. plural of pyre

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/ˈpaɪɚz/

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It has an unspeakable, wild, Hindoo odor about it, such as may lurk in the vicinity of funereal pyres.
Herman MelvilleMoby Dick; Or, The WhaleProject Gutenberg ebook #2701
Woven from their tomb, and one with it, The night wherein we press; Their thousand pitchy pyres have lit Your flaming nakedness.
Rupert BrookeThe Collected Poems of Rupert BrookeProject Gutenberg ebook #262
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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.
Thomas HardyFar from the Madding CrowdProject Gutenberg ebook #27
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.
Friedrich Wilhelm NietzscheThus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and NoneTranslated by Thomas CommonProject Gutenberg ebook #1998