A peculiarly tuneful auto siren sounded up from the street through the open windows.
Not until the musical siren announced the departure from the block of the would-be visitors, did Pape relax from his listening attitude at the door.
How vivid the life of the past weeks stood out before Francesco's eyes, a life crowned by the memory of his arrival in this Siren City, and his strange meeting with Ilaria.
Or had the lure of the Siren land drawn her into the vortex of life and the passions of the sun-kissed shores?
The siren buzzed over the camp's interior; the warning call-lights on the roof brought in the outer guards.
And the siren sent its dismal blasts out into the grayness all about.
The blast of the siren seemed to summon it back again.
Away up beside her monster funnels her siren blew dismally, Whoo-oo-oo-oo!
Heathenism, which has possessed itself of such siren forms, is not yet exorcised.
We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren till she transforms us into beasts.
You do not know the thousand perils by which a young man is beset in Paris,--the siren lures that are thrown in his way to ensnare his feet, be they disposed to walk ever so warily.
Was it possible that in a revulsion of feeling he had actually come to detest the enchanting siren who so easily had won him?
And yet somehow or other it had become plain to their obtuse intelligence that the siren was at the bottom of the trouble.
He laughed aloud, as, detaching the clinging arm of the sirenfrom about his neck, he leapt lightly on Typhoon, his war-horse.
But he couldn't class Lucy with Mrs. Traquhair or the siren of the 1880 voyage.
When we were in a hurry he would travel nearly a mile a minute over an open road, sounding his siren driven off the fly-wheel, and scenting police-traps, with the happy result that we were never held up for exceeding the limit.
Once the shrillsiren of a ship out at Spithead broke the quiet.
The siren had a wonderfully impressive language of the eyes, and it was evident that her hand and heart were at the disposal of this preux chevalier.
Like the siren in stormy weather it told us which way to steer, what to avoid.
Only a year ago there had been that narrow escape in the Madrid hotel with the siren who had married the Russian count.
Although he had no opportunity of performing deeds like Decatur's in the Tripolitan war, his general good conduct was highly praised, and the Siren was brilliantly engaged in all the glorious actions of that famous time.
The Siren ventured farther into the offing than the other vessels, and Stewart and his officers, like every officer and man on all of the ships, was intent upon the black shadow of the fire-ship, as she crept in among the rocks.
When Decatur noticed that the Siren in the offing had no wind and consequently could be of no assistance to him, he remarked cheerfully to his men, "Never mind; the fewer the number the greater the glory.
Presently, in the darkness, the Siren was observed to flit past them.
The evening was mild and beautiful, and the wind was so light that the Siren was almost becalmed in the offing, but the Intrepid met a wandering breeze that carried her within the rocky harbor.
Comparing together, item by item, it will be seen, therefore, that the induction coil or transformer used in connection with electric-wave apparatus is analogous to the air pump in the siren plant.
Hence when the blast of air or steam is turned on, the flow is cut up by the revolving plates into a series of puffs which inflict blows upon the stationary air in the siren tube.
It produces a wave in it, and it can be shown that all the parts of the above described siren apparatus have their electrical equivalents in the transmitter employed in Hertzian wave wireless telegraphy.
The Hertzian radiator is an appliance for acting on the ether as the siren acts on the air.
Inside the siren tube, when it is in operation, the air molecules are in rapid vibratory motion in the direction of the length of the tube.
The first time thesiren had been fitted Bones had taken the Wiggle through "the Channel.
She had a siren of unusual power and diabolical tone, she was also fitted with a big motor-horn, both of which appendages were Bones's gift to his flagship.
How strikingly that puts a truth which sirenvoices are constantly trying to sing us out of believing!
Sir Lionel had meant to stay only one night at the Cottage Hotel, but Lynton was beautiful, with a siren beauty, that would not let us go.
The siren still wailed shrilly from the engine stack.
Above him, from the engine-house stack, the high, piercing note of the siren rose and fell shrieking a clamorous warning.
In a moment more the piercing wail of a siren screamed shrilly through the night, followed quickly by the dull throbbing of machinery.
The angel in her shuddered at the siren in her now, as at a witch with power to evoke Satanic things, and she forgot the trembling of her hands in the sensation of the trembling of her soul.
A moment later Fritz was sitting in a low chair by the wash-hand stand in an obedient attitude, and a woman--was she siren or angel?
The bellowing, shriekingsiren had cleared the air magically of the swarm of aircraft in her path, and quietly, calmly, majestically, the Arcturus floated upward.
Out upon the dock an insistent siren blared a crescendo and diminuendo blast of sound, and two minutes remained.
They were steaming away, and a great blast went up from the sirenas they drew from the quay.
The din of a siren above them filled the world with hideous clamour as Saltash recovered himself.
Inside the Shed, the siren howled dismally and all the Security men were snapping: "Radar alarm!
It was at about this time that the siren in the Shed began its choppy, hiccoughing series of warm-up notes.
The sirenceased its wailing and its noise went down and down in pitch until it was a baritone moan that dropped to bass and ceased.
Now, belatedly, the sirens of the Shed screamed their alarm, and choppy yappings set up as the siren wails rose in pitch.
Just then a police car, itssiren shrilling, sped up to the bridge.
He closed his eyes again, but aroused as he heard the shrill siren of an approaching ambulance.
In the half-moment of silence that followed the old fog-siren screeched a warning.
For hours the great fog-siren had been bellowing to the ships on the sound and breaking into every conversation.
