syrens

The sweet syrens -- _syrens_ only by attraction -- held me by the ear upwards of an hour.

Barford Abbey Susannah Minific Gunning

For the out-and-out prostitute one can feel understanding, and with understanding there is a certain respect; but these amateur "syrens" are a menace and a disgrace to the "homes" which breed them so carelessly, and look after them so ill.

Over the Fireside with Silent Friends Richard King 1913

And so the detective must hunt down the son of a titan of industry, while navigating through golems, cybernetic syrens, temporal thieves, crooked cops, and of course, the perils of misguided love.

Realms of Fantasy: February 2007 (Issue 75) douglascohen 2010

And so the detective must hunt down the son of a titan of industry, while navigating through golems, cybernetic syrens, temporal thieves, crooked cops, and of course, the perils of misguided love.

April 4th, 2010 douglascohen 2010

And put the case, that in the literal sense you meet with purposes merry and solacious enough, and consequently very correspondent to their inscriptions, yet must not you stop there as at the melody of the charming syrens, but endeavour to interpret that in a sublimer sense which possibly you intended to have spoken in the jollity of your heart.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

And put the case, that in the literal sense you meet with purposes merry and solacious enough, and consequently very correspondent to their inscriptions, yet must not you stop there as at the melody of the charming syrens, but endeavour to interpret that in a sublimer sense which possibly you intended to have spoken in the jollity of your heart.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

A little lower down came forth a troop of young women representing syrens; an old chronicle calls them,

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV. Various

I see a range of showy figures on the shore; it is a whole brass band, seducing us, in the style of the syrens of old, to bring our ship to an anchor, and hazard the enchantments of the most delicious of tea-gardens.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847 Various

They use neither milk nor sugar, and the cups are so provokingly small, that it is only by keeping our attendant syrens under the most active employment, that we are at last able to say we have tasted it.

In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83 J. J. Smith

It may furnish them with a renewal of those conceptions of the dwellings of sea nymphs and syrens, which have, grown rather faded, from hereditary copying, but which would be much refreshed by a voyage to the Great Barrier Reef, or its best substitute, a glance at Mr Jukes's clever volumes.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847. Various