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Перевод: pyre

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Тезаурус:

1. The dead man was taken at the end of a winding procession, with one man from every house in the village barefoot and carrying a log for the pyre.
2. In the finale, as the whole orchestra was pronouncing the triple supplication "Do-na-no-bis-pa-cem", all at once a wonderful gesture escaped you: you plunged your left fist deep down as if you were setting the torch to the side of a funeral pyre.
3. Foo saw the waves as a watery pyre, where he would in due course achieve martyrdom.
4. Customs such as "sati", where a widow was burned alive on her husband's funeral pyre were not uncommon.
5. The soft beauty of their symmetrical curves, and the sinuous outlines, accentuated as they were at morning and evening by the glancing rays of the sun, provided an artistry one could not readily forget; and I shall long remember the delicate rosy flush, reflected for a moment from the smooth sand surfaces, as the radiance of the sunset dwindled and died like a funeral pyre."
6. And, besides, the picture no longer existed, having been burnt by Adam himself, destroyed on that pyre with certain other things.
7. I'm sure the gladiators will enjoy a spot of tiddlywinks with Uncle Nero before they die - but mind you don't end up on the funeral pyre yourself going leap-frogging over the mourners like that.
8. Often the horror and humility of her widowhood would drive a young widow to follow her husband on his burning pyre.
9. After Brunnhilde throws herself on to the pyre Valhalla comes to an end, to be replaced by a new era of human love.
10. It was not the convent but the martyr's pyre she desired.
11. But then, as she hurled the contents of the bucket at the huge pyre, he smelt paraffin and leapt away.
12. And the scene of the burning of the books, seen on film by her many times, was as vivid as an actual memory: Hitler's jack-booted thugs in their brown shirts, swastikas on their arms, heaving the books from the Library and heaping the heritage of the world on to a pyre, dancing and gloating as the flames consumed book after book, volume after volume: Heine, Schiller, Brecht, Thomas Mann, Einstein, Freud, Marx: history, poetry, novels, science, the works of philosophers, psychologists - men and women who had dedicated their lives for the betterment of the brutes who burned their books; brutes living in utter ignorance, leading lives as dull and limited as the beasts of the fields, inspired only by resentment, vile prejudice, and blind hatred of what they could not understand, and, it was true, victims themselves of poverty and ignorance seeking victims in their turn - and finding them.
13. It is a three-day journey to the land of Moriah, yet he cuts the wood for Isaac's funeral pyre before he sets off, and takes it all the way with him.