The Sirens were the famous women of Greek mythology, who luredmariners to destruction by the overpowering sweetness of their songs.
What woman would ever be luredinto marriage, so much more dangerous than the wildest sea?
Nothing but the haziest recollections came to me at first, nothing but dim memories of the awful being who had lured me there; for I perceived now that all the messages proceeded, not from Bristol, but from Hassan of Aleppo!
It was a death-trap into which he had lured Dexter and which he had left baited for whomsoever might trace the cracksman to the Gate House.
They seldom justify the brilliant expectations of the populace lured by the perspective of rich spoils, as they are to-day--pensions for the veterans of toil, etc.
II Now 'twas her hand and now her hair That tossed me welcome everywhere; That lured me onward through the stately rooms Of forest, hung and carpeted with glooms, And windowed wide with azure, doored with green.
The future promised fair; I lured them to their doom, and when the doom came, lo!
So much the more delicious task to watch Mildred revive: to pluck out, thorn by thorn, All traces of the rough forbidden path My rash love lured her to!
The fact is I have been lured down here by a friend of mine who has started a chicken farm--" I was interrupted.
I felt more than a little guilty while listening to this duet on the subject of the man whom I had lured from the straight and narrow path.
In the night the priest woke, and gave a cry to his wife, and I looked out, but the night was black, the fleet moon had lured every star away.
They had tempted away her darling child, her comfort and delight, lured her with splendor and ease, only to sink her in shame!
After she had lured Athens to destruction in this same quarrel, she invoked the Carthaginian on a mission of destruction.
Sparta looked so near that we were almost lured into the attempt to throw stones into it.
It was the alliance with Kerkyra, the key to the voyage to Sicily, that lured the Athenians to that ruin.
How much Commissioner Falconer has to answer for, who forced him, or who lured him, knowing how unfit he was for it, into the church!
If Pizarro hadn't been lured by the gold of the Incas we might not be here at this moment.
The Court of the Ages lured us along the dimly lighted inner court, the arches taking on an even more delicate beauty in the night light.
He had risked his life to prevent her coming on board, instead of, as she had been falsely led to believe, leaving the unmanly message which had lured her into the trap.
They have lured that lady to the ship in ignorance that she is to be kidnapped abroad.
He saw now the immeasurable hopes his residence at Beckley hadlured him to.
She lured Mr. George Uplift away from Miss Carrington, and spoke to him strange hints of matrimonial disappointments, looking from time to time at that apprehensive lady, doating on her terrors.
It was a happy union--a picture that the Countess was lured to admire in the glass.
After two or three Sabbaths the other boys became so incensed that he should disgrace the class that after school they lured him into an alleyway and were administering a well-deserved castigation, when Mildred, who was passing, rescued him.
Bribing two men to assist him in the deed, helured Lord Langleigh into an ambush.
Then he would go down into the public thoroughfares, lured on by some burning passion within.
While in and out the terrace-plants, and round One branch of tall datura, waxed and waned The lamp-fly lured there, wanting the white flower.
It is said that the English government winks at the escape of these birds of ill omen, who are lured hither by tales of our lawlessness carried by sailormen.
Adventurers for the most part, lured to this new land, some by the wander spirit, others by a wish to free themselves from the restraints of law.
VIRAG: (Prompts in a pig's whisper) Insects of the day spend their brief existence in reiterated coition, lured by the smell of the inferiorly pulchritudinous fumale possessing extendified pudendal nerve in dorsal region.
It gave Marion pleasure, to think he had long loved her; and yet it stirred within her a painful emotion--by recalling the bold challenge by which she had lured him to the avowal of it.
Lured by voices that cry and cry, Drawn by fingers that clutch my hair, Called to the mountains bleak and high, Led to the mesas hot and bare.
I was the diplomat who lured Nort back to us with fine words, but old General Fergus was waiting there grimly at the cases, in full preparedness, to play his part.
I had great trouble getting Fergus to come at all; but having once lured him out, Harriet's gingerbread soon finished him.
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