With sweet sounding song the Sirens smooth the breeze: Flee, lest thou perish, the crafty monsters of the seas.
The scream of the sirens still seemed no closer, but without assessing his chances Hunter sprang into the private lift.
With sirens screaming, it soared up in pursuit of the empty autojet.
We held breath and listened, but if they were sirens they ceased their song.
After that you came to sirens that you could not help leaping to meet, but they put lips to men's breasts and sucked out the life.
Wolfram seeks to detain him, but is powerless until he mentions the name of Elizabeth, when the sirens vanish and their spells lose their attraction.
It begins with the pilgrim's song, which, as it dies away, is succeeded by the seductive spells of the Venusberg and the voices of the sirens calling to Tannhäuser.
He hears the voices of the sirens luring him back.
It is, then, one of these Sirens whom Dante takes as the phantasm or deceitfulness of riches; but note further, that she says it was her song that deceived Ulysses.
But the deadly Sirens are all things opposed to the Circean power.
We could sooner believe in sirens and water-nymphs than in many existences that are commonly spoken of as much more certain "matters of fact.
The sirens were still calling and their weird enticing melodies yet rippled through our memories.
You return again for another view, for the song of water is the same the world over, and you seem drawn irresistibly toward the sound as though sirens were singing.
He has represented his Centaurs and Satyrs, and Fauns and Sirens and Cupids, so vividly and impressively that they have become ideas as currently acceptable as if they were simple incomposite beings.
Light-houses have driven sirens from the dangerous coasts.
Full many a seaman had testified How all who sailed near were enchanted, And landed to search (and in searching died) For the roses the Sirens had planted.
For the Sirens were dead, and the billows boomed In the stead of their singing forever; But the roses bloomed on the graves of the doomed, Though man had discovered them never.
Bicyclists are allowed to use motorsirens to clear the way before them.
The Sirens were Sea-nymphs who had the power of charming by their song all who had heard them, so that the unhappy mariners were irresistibly impelled to cast themselves into the sea to their destruction.
The music of the elves is like that of the sirens and of Orpheus, often irresistible.
The fable of the Sirens finds an exact counterpart in the North.
The Greek sirens are not like common women; but once conceive of their physical existence, and you understand them thoroughly.
The sirensare beautiful women, with angelic voices and vulture's talons.
The Christine whom he had learned to know as false and heartless was now to him a strange, fascinating, unwomanly creature, beautiful only as the Sirens were beautiful, that he might wreck himself body and soul before her unpitying eyes.
Nor can such lives hear the whisper of Nature and of the sirens who walk purely with Nature.
The Sirens are best known from the story that Odysseus succeeded in passing them with his companions without being seduced by their song.
The Sirens of Classic Mythology The Sirens (Greek, entanglers) enticed seamen by the sweetness of their song to such a degree that the listeners forgot everything and died of hunger.
In the illustration from an ancient Greek vase gives a Grecian rendering of the story, and represents the Sirens as birds with heads of maidens.
By the fables of the Sirens is represented the ensnaring nature of vain and deceitful pleasures, which sing and soothe to sleep, and never fail to destroy those who succumb to their beguiling influence.
Flaxman, in his designs illustrating the "Odyssey," represents the sirens as beautiful young women seated on the strand and singing.
Two ancient mariners from the Northern Main One autumn eve came sailing home again, From Sicily and its deceitful islands, Carrying a shoal of sirens On board.
The sirens of sin and crime are doing all in their power to lure us from the highest and best things in life.
Let the great Sunday-school movement continue to play for us this sweeter music, and no sirens can lure us away from truth and right and heaven.
There is a beautiful story told in Greek mythology that when Ulysses was passing in his ship by the Isle of the Sirens, the beautiful sirens began to play their sweetest music to lure the sailors from their posts of duty.
Such are chimeras--half nymphs and half serpents; such are the three Gorgons and the Capripeds; such are the Scyllas and the Sirens who sing in the sea.
Sing us his song again, brave Orpheus, that we may forget theSirens and their spell.
But when the Sirens saw that they were conquered, they shrieked for envy and rage, and leapt from the beach into the sea, and were changed into rocks until this day.
Many a good counsel and crafty warning did she give him against the Sirens that charm with their singing, and against the monster Scylla and the whirlpool Charybdis, and the Clashing Rocks, and the cattle of the Sun.
Now very soon they came to the Sirens who sing so sweetly that they lure to death every man who listens.
He heard a wild sweetness coaxing the air, as a minstrel coaxes the harp; and there, close by, were the Sirens sitting in a blooming meadow that hid the bones of men.
The scream of handsirens sounded from his stateroom.
I heard my sirens sounding down below, with the answering clangs here in the turret.
First to the Sirens ye shall come, that taint The minds of all men whom they can acquaint With their attractions.
You must efface either the twosirens or the legend, without which I forbid the exhibition of the sign.
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