tower of silence
Americannoun
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At the end of the book, from her hospital window, Miss Batchelor sees the wheeling carrion birds of a Parsi tower of silence.
From Time Magazine Archive
A few miles southeast of Teheran, in a desolate, unfrequented spot, is the guebre "tower of silence," where they dispose of their dead.
From Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume 1 From San Francisco to Teheran by Thomas Stevens
It is also cheap and absolutely democratic, as the bones of the rich and poor mingle at last in the well of the tower of silence.
From The Critic in the Orient by George Hamlin Fitch
And thus, out of a bauble of silver and lapis lazuli, was reared a tower of silence between these brothers as high as fifteen years is long.
From Star-Dust by Fannie Hurst
Instinctively, as she looked abroad over that wondrous panorama, she raised both bare arms; and, clad in the tiger-skin alone, stood for a little space like some Parsee priestess, sun-worshiping, on her tower of silence.
From Darkness and Dawn by George Allan England
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