Tenth in descent, since first my sires Waked for his noble house their lyres, Nor one of all the race was known But prized its weal above their own.
Many fair Achive princesses of unimpeachéd life In Helle and in Phthia live, whose sires do cities hold, Of whom I can have whom I will.
But who would dream our sober sires Had learned the old world's ways, And warmed their hearths with lawless fires In Shirley's homespun days?
The arbutus, who in glad surprise Bloomed 'Welcome' from fields of snow To our Pilgrim sires of long ago.
Enjoy what thou hast inherited from thy sires if thou wouldst possess it; what we employ not is an oppressive burden; what the moment brings forth, that only can it profit by.
Our worth the Grecian sages knew; They gave our sires the honour due; They weighed the dignity of fowls, And pried into the depth of owls.
Shall we our servitude retain, Because our sires have borne the chain?
Tis industry our state maintains: 'Twas honest toils and honest gains That raised our sires to power and fame.
Thus did your siresadorn their seat; And such alone are truly great.
Clang the bells in all your spires; On the gray hills of your sires Fling to heaven your signal-fires.
Say, did these fine volitions first commence From clear ideas of the tangent sense; From sires to sons by imitation caught, Or in dumb language by tradition taught?
Long time elapsed or e'er our rugged sires Complain'd, though incommodiously pent in, And ill at ease behind.
Time was, when clothing sumptuous or for use, Save their own painted skins, our sires had none.
There’s not a cradle in the bounds of Hellas broad and fair, But the spirit of our free-born sires is surely hovering there.
In the woods of Powhattan, Still 'tis told by Indian fires How a daughter of their sires Saved a captive Englishman.
I have heard that whenever the descendants of the Puritans are to show the spirit of their sires the old man appears again.
By arrogance and folly led; Had but my restive youth been brought To learn the lesson nature taught, Then had I, like my sires of yore, The prize from every courser bore.
It is always a safe rule in color breeding to discard as a stud a dog, no matter how brilliant his coat may be, who persistently sires pups whose colors are indistinct and run together, as it were.
In regard to the mahogany brindles they say, why not breed continuously together rich mahogany sires and dams, and then we shall always have the brindles we desire.
It will be noted that very few first prize winners had prize winning sires and dams.
This does not imply, of course, that these bitches will be candidates for bench honors, but it does mean that if mated with suitable sires the production of good, all-round puppies with a reasonable amount of luck will be the result.
Always see that the sires used are perfectly marked, from ancestry possessing the same correct markings.
For earthquake swallowing earthquake Uprent the Wessex tree; The whirlpool of the pagan sway Had swirled his sires as sticks away When a flood smites the sea.
Did not a great grey servant Of all my sires and me, Build this pavilion of the pines, And herd the fowls and fill the vines, And labour and pass and leave no signs Save mercy and mystery?
And the man of the cave made answer, And his eyes were stars of scorn, "And better kings were conquered Or ever your sires were born.
They are dewed daily by your vow, Daughters of sires who, to no thrall, would bow!
Where are the guileless rites retain'd, And customs of our sires maintain'd?
Thus spake he while they fought: 'By nature, son, the noble temper of thy sires shineth forth in thee.
On the renowned race of thy mother's siresthere waiteth glory of games by favour of the Graces and the sons of Tyndareus together.
I yield, and all the lands whereon thou feedest them, the spoil of my sires wherewith thou makest fat thy wealth.
Then they gathered in their houses, Men and maidens, sires and spouses, Talking of their wall.
His book lay open upon the board: His elbow rested on his good sword: His knightly sires and many a dame Look'd on him from panel and dusky frame.
Strike down yon guard, gain the mountain passes, and then do bloody word, as did your sires at old Thermopylae!
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sires" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
