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She also champions alternatives like natural burials, funeral pyres, and intimate ceremonies in the home.
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The greatest library ever assembled by the great civilizations of the ancient world—containing a vast ocean of knowledge now lost to us forever—was incinerated on a great pyre of papyrus.
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A cordon of soldiers, placed at a distance from the pyre, kept the inquisitive from drawing too near.
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Fergan and his assistants withdrew to the mob which the file of soldiers was holding back from the pyre.
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The pyre was then lighted with a torch by a relative, who kept his face averted during the act.
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He threw himself upon the pyre, and was consumed like a log of wood, together with the chamber.
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Out of that funeral pyre her feverish thoughts builded a frightful dream.
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The widow, having drunk from a cup which contained opium, climbed to the top of the pyre where her husband lay, swathed in white.
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It goes where the corpse of Cæsar went an hour after the extinction of his pyre.
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When they broke through the ring of witch burners and snatched Marm Perry off the pyre, her apron strings had burned in two.
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