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
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 Fitch, George Hamlin
There is a tower of silence, and the bell Moves up—another man is made to be.
From The Diwan of Abu'l-Ala by Baerlein, Henry
Emancipation has only locked the saint in the same tower of silence as the heresiarch.
From Heretics by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)
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 Stevens, Thomas
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