Some bones make best skeletons, some bodies quick and speediest ashes. Who would expect a quick flame from hydropical Heraclitus? The poisoned soldier when his belly brake, put out two pyres in Plutarch. But in the plague of Athens, one private pyre served two or three intruders; and the Saracens burnt in large heaps, by the king of Castile, showed how little fuel sufficeth. Though the funeral pyre of Patroclus took up an hundred foot,* a piece of an old boat burnt Pompey; and if the burthen of Isaac were sufficient for an holo- caust, a man may carry his own pyre.英文原著 · 《Religio Medici》
EVADNE 'Tis all one; thou shalt never catch me in thy grasp. I cast me down, no joy to thee, but to myself and to my husband blazing on the pyre with me. (She leaps into the pyre.) CHORUS (chanting) O lady, thou hast done a fearful deed! IPHIS Ah me! I am undone, ye dames of Argos! CHORUS (chanting) Alack, alack! a cruel blow is this to thee, but thou must yet witness, poor wretch, the full horror of this deed. IPHIS A more unhappy wretch than me ye could not find.英文原著 · 《THE SUPPLIANTS》
The Marquis had retrieved his fortunes, when he died, worn out with toil. A few months after his death, in 1833, the Marquise was obliged to take Moina to a watering-place in the Pyrenees, for the capricious child had a wish to see the beautiful mountain scenery. They left the baths, and the following tragical incident occurred on their way home.英文原著 · 《A Woman of Thirty》
One claimed to have a knowledge of Brittany, or of the Pyrenees, because one had visited Dinard or Biarritz; while in reality neither Tahiti nor the Isle of Paques could have remained more completely unknown to us.英文原著 · 《AN ICELAND FISHERMAN》
The Cagots stood afar off, near the door. There were certain boundaries--imaginary lines on the nave and in the isles which they might not pass. In one or two of the more tolerant of the Pyrenean villages, the blessed bread was offered to the Cagots, the priest standing on one side of the boundary, and giving the pieces of bread on a long wooden fork to each person successively.英文原著 · 《An Accursed Race》
From the thirteenth to the end of the nineteenth century, there are facts enough to prove the universal abhorrence in which this unfortunate race was held; whether called Cagots, or Gahets in Pyrenean districts, Caqueaux in Brittany, or Yaqueros Asturias. The great French revolution brought some good out of its fermentation of the people: the more intelligent among them tried to overcome the prejudice against the Cagots.英文原著 · 《An Accursed Race》
Nail him to the pyre, douse him with oil, and light his ass up.美剧 · 《Billions》