Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- An obsolete spelling of
siren .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare See
siren .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Archaic form of
siren .
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Examples
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He retired therefore to his cell, to try how far psalmody might be able to drive off the sounds of the syren tune which haunted his memory.
The Monastery 2008
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Like another syren, she seemed to have enchanted him to this fatal island to charm and to destroy.
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He thought he heard the tones of a piano and of a syren singing, coming from the drawing-room and sweeping over the balcony-shrubbery of geraniums.
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Poor Smirke wanted to go away from the sight of the syren widow.
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And now you will not wonder to find Miss Bell an implacable rival, rather than an affectionate sister; and will be able to account for the words witchcraft, syren, and such like, thrown out against you; and for her driving on for a fixed day for sacrificing you to Solmes: in short, for her rudeness and violence of every kind.
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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The spreading dusk at length reminded Adeline of her distance from the inn, and that she had her way to find through a wild and lonely wood: she bade adieu to the syren that had so long detained her, and pursued the path with quick steps.
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Why had he thrown himself in the way of that syren?
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She moved slowly towards the spot, which she had almost reached, when the sound of her steps startled and silenced the syren, who, on perceiving a stranger, arose in an attitude to depart.
A Sicilian Romance 2004
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We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truthand listen to the song of that syren, till she transforms us into beasts.
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That my Children may follow his Example, is my earnest Prayer: but I sometimes tremble, when I hear the syren songs of sloth, least they should be captivated with her bewitching Charms and her soft, insinuating Musick.
Letter from John Adams to Abigail Adams, April - May 1780 1973
bilby commented on the word syren
I pity Dolabella; but she’s dangerous:
Her eyes have power beyond Thessalian charms,
To draw the moon from heaven; for eloquence,
The sea-green Syrens taught her voice their flattery;
And, while she speaks, night steals upon the day,
Unmarked of those that hear.
- John Dryden, 'All for Love'.
September 20, 2009