And all themermen under the sea Would feel their [2] immortality Die in their hearts for the love of me.
Then he thought he would rest before going home, so he stretched out on his back and fell fast asleep and dreamed that he was afloat on a calm, blue ocean in a little white boat, surrounded by mermen and maidens.
Then the evenings were usually clear, so that when the party broke up, the mermen could see their way in the moonlight to swim home safely with their mermaid friends.
Of course, all the mermaids in good society were welcome, but young mermen were allowed to call only once a month, during the week when the moon was full.
Mermen and Mermaids do not seem to affect any particular district, they were met with all over the world--and records of their having been seen, come to us from all parts.
He says that in 1663, a lieutenant in the Dutch army was with some soldiers on the sea-beach at Amboyna, when they all saw mermen swimming near the beach.
But they looked the picture of despair, whereas mermen were generally reputed to be jolly.
But perched on the sward on the top were two strange beings, the like of whom Jem had never seen before, and whom his fancy now at once recognized as the mermen of fable and romance.
No more would the merry partner gather the crowd on the beach; no more would the twelve young Wilners gambol like mermen and mermaids in the surf.
For though when Captain Capel sank, The mermen drawn in double rank Gave him a hearty hail, Yet when secure of Captain Cleggs, They cut off both his lovely legs, And gave him such a tail!
It was drawing toward the hour when the fishers came to land; and we had not long to wait, before, one after another, they came out of the sea like so many mermen and mermaids.
Both mermen and mermaids were fond, it is said, of combing their long hair, and the siren-like song of the latter was thought to be so seductive as to entice men to destruction.
Whilst he was speaking four young mermaidens appeared close to the ship’s side, making signs for the mermen on board to join them.
He began by entreating his shipmates not to disbelieve what he was going to say, for it was about mermen and mermaids.
The mermen requested the captain to give them some matches to light their fire, and a few candles.
Of mermen and merwomen many strange stories are told in the Shetland Isles.
A story is told of an inhabitant of Unst, who, in walking on the sandy margin of a voe, saw a number of mermen and mermaids dancing by moonlight, and several seal-skins strewed beside them on the ground.
But it was not in Holland only," adds the historian, "that they found mermen in those days.
The mermen and mermaids endeavored to dissuade Rosond and his mother from attempting what must be a fruitless task.
And all the mermen under the sea Would feel their immortality Die in their hearts for the love of me.
The mermenreached out their blue arms to him, and sang; on the top of the waves they sang, striving to make him forget the silence of the land below.
And the mermen swam fast to be with her, and ceased from their own song, for the wind sang a coronach in the canvas and cordage.
But that night the mermencame round the vessel's side, and sang; and the wind rose to their singing, and the sea grew rough.
Even in more modern times, every now and then a mermaid (the mermen seem to have been more scarce) made her appearance.
And Gervase of Tilbury roundly asserts that mermen and mermaids live in the British Ocean.
Small boys who think they "would be mermen bold" are prancing about gayly in the water.
All is quiet and restful, with only the rippling of the water and the shouts of the merry mermen to break the stillness.
No, the beautiful mermaids I don't think ever do any harm, but the mermen are bad--bad!
It was drawing toward the hour when the fishers came to land, and we had not long to wait, before, one after another, they came out of the sea like so many mermen and mermaids.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mermen" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
