Die woordeboekdefinisie van die woord "brandbrand" is 'n hoop hout of ander brandbare materiaal wat gebruik word om 'n dooie liggaam te verbrand as deel van 'n begrafnisseremonie.
The old rajah was not dead, then, since he rose of a sudden, like a spectre, took up his wife in his arms, and descended from the pyre in the midst of the clouds of smoke, which only heightened his ghostly appearance.
The crowds were silent as the queen turned around to quietly gaze at the pyre.
But so necessary to truly understand the confusion and anger which swept over me as I fled from its burning funeral pyre.
At this moment Sir Francis and the guide seized Phileas Fogg, who, in an instant of mad generosity, was about to rush upon the pyre.
The Gulf Tower was consumed in fire, a black pyre of soot ascending into the clouds.
The firstcouncilor explains that the queen would speak, and then Darion would speak, then the funeral pyre would be lit.
This could only be determined at the moment and the place themselves but it was certain that the abduction must be made that night, and not when, at break of day, the victim was led to her funeral pyre.
The Parsee, leading the others, noiselessly crept through the wood, and in ten minutes they found themselves on the banks of a small stream, whence, by the light of the rosin torches, they perceived a pyre of wood, on the top of which lay the embalmed body of the rajah, which was to be burned with his wife.
At the base of the pyre, Rune stood watching giant flames devour the house and bodies of reindeer and cattle as streams of sweat trickled down his bare shoulders.
Head and body both burnt now, on a mighty pyre just outside the town wall.
