Crossword-Solution: PIRE 4 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 6

Wilford, in his dissertations upon Egypt and the Nile, says that in a conversation which he had with some learned Brahmins, upon describing to them the form and peculiarities of the Great Pyramid, they told him that "it was a temple appropriated to the worship of Padma Devi." The true Coptic name of these edifices is Pire Honc, which signifies a sunbeam.

And in the evening when they came into a little garden under the King's window, they began to sing-- "Pire, pire pire! The sun and the moon are bright and clear, But she who feeds us is still more fair." Now the King, hearing this goose-music every evening, ordered Ciommo to be called, and asked him where, and how, and upon what he fed his geese.

These proved wholly unable to encounter Kellerman's cuirassiers and Pire's lancers; the Dutch and Belgian infantry also gave way early in the engagement; so that the whole brunt of the battle fell on the British and German infantry.

Count Reille's corps formed the left or western wing, and was formed of Bachelu's, Foy's, and Jerome Bonaparte's divisions of infantry, and of Pire's division of cavalry.

Pourtant, on doute, a la réflexion, si les produits de l'industrie ne sont pas moins nuisibles aux pauvres qui les fabriquent qu'aux riches qui s'en servent et si, de tous les maux de la vie, le luxe n'est point le pire.