death-pile

At this point the ant farm enters what is known as the “death-pile phase.”

The Volokh Conspiracy » An Amazon review: 2004

I should have told you that a heavy shower of rain had fallen but a few hours before the kindling of the death-pile, which, as needs must, had left the brush-wood in better condition for heavy smoking than for lively combustion.

Burl Morrison Heady 1872

His rebuke ended, he turned to take a look at the prisoner whom he had rescued from the flames, but of whom he had as yet seen nothing, the smoke at the moment of his coming up still hovering heavily over the death-pile.

Burl Morrison Heady 1872

Up dashes a warrior mounted on horseback, leaps to the ground, and now at the death-pile seizes the fagots and scatters them broadcast, stamping upon them with moccasined feet to smother the flames till all is extinguished.

Burl Morrison Heady 1872

The death-pile kindled, the smoke of its burning in dense black volumes enveloped the victim.

Burl Morrison Heady 1872

As they gained the summit of the steep overlooking the dingle where his death-pile had been kindled, the Fighting Nigger -- the

Burl Morrison Heady 1872

It was howled over the grave of Copernicus; it was clamoured round the death-pile of Bruno; it was yelled at Vanini, at Spinoza, at Priestley, at Voltaire, at Paine; it has become the laurel-bay of the hero, the halo of the martyr; in the world's history it has meant the pioneer of progress, and where the cry of 'Atheist' is raised there may we be sure that another step is being taken towards the redemption of humanity.

An Autobiography Besant, Annie 1893

After thou ascendest on foot the steep dune, the bordering circle of that high land which I shall show thee from here, there 2855 thou shalt prepare a funeral pyre, the death-pile of thy son, and then thyself sacrifice thy son with the edge of the sword and then burn his dear body with black flame, and thus make offering to me. "

Genesis A Translated from the Old English Lawrence Mason 1890