The Nurse then to accomplish her intent, And finding Cynaras made blith with wine, The Syren most inchantingly did sing, And thus at last broke silence to the King.
Heralded by the mournful wail of a syren three destroyers loomed up beside the lighters.
As we landed on the deck hersyren gave a short blast, the yard-arm group was extinguished, and she went ahead.
Whereupon she rescued the Colonel from the syren and left me alone with her.
She may be as worthless as you please, but she is by no means the vulgar syren I was led to expect.
I expressed my sympathy and my readiness to do anything in my power to snatch the infatuated boy from the claw and fang of the syren and hale him to the forgiving feet of Maisie Ellerton.
And he continued to trumpet forth the Olympian qualities of the Syrenand his own fervent adoration.
Then they heard the steamer's syrenand grew hotter still with impatience.
He's been explaining the situation to the high priest of the island for the last half-hour while we blew bugle calls on the syren to attract your attention.
Mr. Donovan stood on the bridge, the rope which controlled the syren in his hand.
The two were speedily increased to half a dozen, and these were joined by quite a group of farm-servants and villagers, attracted by the unwonted sound of a syren floating across their fields.
Perdita’s note;--and he thought that it did not precisely signify for an hour or two when he might make those statements; whereas it was necessary to see the syren without delay.
Nevertheless, he is very handsome,” said Lorenzo, gazing upon the syren with a playful affectation of jealousy.
Again did he lose all power of sober reflection and, completely yielding to the influence which the syren had in so short a time gained over him, he said, “I shall be proud and delighted to act as your escort, Miss Fitzhardinge.
I am now no stranger to all your syren wiles--your Circean witcheries: I recognise all that artifice and all that duplicity in many of the circumstances which marked our first meetings, and which rivetted the chains that you threw around me.
The syren now proceeded to the drawing-room, where with her own fair hands she arranged wine, fruits, and cakes upon the table.
Whoe'er thou art whom chance may bring To this sequester'd spot, If then the plaintive Syren sing, Oh!
The Syren views them with exulting eyes, And laughs at bashful Virtue as she flies.
Who now will drink the syren tone, Which tells him thou art all his own?
Now blest I'll fly With the bright treasure to my choral sky, Where she, who waked its early swell, The Syren of the heavenly choir.
Life's young season, My heart had leapt at that sweet lay; Nor paused to ask of graybeard Reason Should I the syren call obey.
The syren of the lightship sounded louder and louder, while the hooters of several vessels, adding to the din, betokened the fact that the yacht was crossing one of the great steamship routes.
They saw the 'blue peter' come fluttering from the masthead, and heard our syren roar a warning to the river craft as we backed out.
Anon, our advance guardship sets her syren sounding dismal wails at long intervals, as she swings over from wing to wing of the convoy.
The trumpeter astern has come up and sighted our wake and fog-buoy, and the clamour of her questing syren is stilled.
An hour later a strident power syren sounds out from roof of the repair 'shops.
Quick on the dying note a new syren throws out a powerful reedy blast, sounding from astern.
The lighthouse syren roars a warning of shoal-water out on the landward beam, a raucous discord of two weird notes.
What wonder if in lands of perpetual summer the syren song of some "long bright river" should lure the storm-tossed mariners from the perilous seas to the comparative security of inland life!
The symbolical stories of the world's infancy join the actual experience of struggling humanity to the dreamland from whence it emerged, as some syren song lured it into unknown regions.
Flavour sit upon her thousand thrones, and, like a syren with a sunny smile, win to renewed excesses, each more sweet!
His box was on the stage; and ever and anon the syren shot a glance which seemed to tell him that he was marked out amid this brilliant multitude.
Or, on a moonless night, To tinge, on syren shores, the salt sea-spry?
She is beautiful as the Syren of the dishevelled hair," said Costal, as he stood gazing upon the prostrate form, "beautiful as Matlacuezc!
Costal and Clara, instead of accompanying the party of Don Mariano, had remained upon the ground, in hopes that they would now be left free to continue their pagan incantations, and once more behold the Syren of the dishevelled hair.
I must now say farewell for the present," exclaimed Markham, afraid of trusting himself longer with the Syren who had fascinated him with her misfortunes as well as by her charms.
The syren invited him to walk in, as a matter of course; but Mr. Tracy was compelled to forego that pleasure.
That it is all over with the fisherman, and that the syren will have her wicked will of him to his destruction, is palpable.
The syren is a model of form in its most charming undulations.
She visited London a third time in 1750, when a concert was given for her benefit; but the poor little syren was now old and infirm; she had lost her voice, and even the enemies of Faustina would not come to applaud her.
The captain was surprised at not hearing the fog syrenand the Marconi station was communicated with to learn the reason.
The speaker stepped to the lanyard of the syren and jerked it savagely.
The device had other advantages: by anchoring midway down the course a flagging crew could be spurred on to mightier efforts by shouts and execrations, the beating of gongs, hooting syren and fog-horns, whistles and impassioned entreaties.
When the affair was made known to the British captain he came on board the Syren in a great rage, and inquired how he dared to take a man from his boat.
The captain, with a volley of oaths, swore he would bring his frigate along side the Syren and sink her.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "syren" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
