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  • Norns and Rhinemaidens have sirenic charm and character.

    Wagner: Götterdämmerung 2010

  • I wanted to write now I am a sirenic crone and I write so all's well here and with any luck

    Little Girls and Old Ladies Steven Barnes 2008

  • We must remember that sirenic and echo poetry are almost as old as the tide of the sea, certainly as old as the hills, while as to the general situation, there is a passage in Milton's

    Graf von Loeben and the Legend of Lorelei Allen Wilson Porterfield

  • Yet day by day he had fought back that sirenic call.

    Phantom Wires A Novel Arthur Stringer 1912

  • Her subjects, Lana and Rose, are free-spirited, adventurous and sirenic teen-agers living in Berkeley in the early nineteen-eighties who call themselves the Lolas.

    The New Yorker The New Yorker 2011

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  • Like a siren: fascinating and dangerous.

    July 30, 2007

  • Not to be confused with sironic.

    July 31, 2007