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  • I don't know about Persephone, but she's a siren in a group called the Syrens in

    unknown title 2009

  • Grotto's of Coral; rejoycé in the Voices of the Syrens, and dance to the Musick of the Tritons; every one striving to do you

    Exilius 2008

  • At the Rise of the Moon the Syrens all began to sing, and made the finest Harmony possible; there were great Numbers dwelt about that Rock, and other Rocks in that Sea: They sung in perfect Concord, tho 'many and divers Sort of Voices, from the highest Treble to the lowest

    Exilius 2008

  • What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, though puzzling questions, + are not beyond all conjecture.

    Hydriotaphia, or Urn-burial 2007

  • What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, although puzzling questions are not beyond all conjecture. —

    The Murders in the Rue Morgue 2006

  • In 1782, Abigail had written him that he had been absent “near half the term of years” that Ulysses “was encountering Neptune, Calipso, the Circes and Syrens.”

    America's First Dynasty Richard Brookhiser 2002

  • Psyches I pray thee to take pitty on thy selfe, of me, and deliver thy husband and this infant within thy belly from so great danger, and see not, neither heare these cursed women, which are not worthy to be called thy sisters, for their great hatred and breach of sisterly amity, for they wil come like Syrens to the mountains, and yeeld out their pittious and lamentable cries.

    The Golden Asse Lucius Apuleius

  • Oh say they, but some discretion would doe well; It is true, but take withall _Calvins_ caveat to _Melancthon_: That he affect not so the name of a moderate man, and listen to such Syrens songs, till he lose his zeale.

    A Coal From The Altar, To Kindle The Holy Fire of Zeale In a Sermon Preached at a Generall Visitation at Ipswich Samuel Ward

  • _Syrens_ at the Windows; if Nature does not make them appear Beautiful,

    The School of Recreation (1684 edition) Or, The Gentlemans Tutor, to those Most Ingenious Exercises of Hunting, Racing, Hawking, Riding, Cock-fighting, Fowling, Fishing Robert Howlett

  • What song the Syrens sang or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women though puzzling questions are not beyond all conjecture.

    The Principles of English Versification Paull Franklin Baum

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