At the time, sirens were not yet standard in tornado country.
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Still more keys engage an array of other sounds, from snare drums and cymbals to awooga horns and sirens.
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Then the first sirens of that long day sounded in the distance.
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The FDR Drive was closed to all traffic except emergency vehicles, and we drove down it with lights and sirens flashing.
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As shadows fall and flesh goads, we all but hear the frenzied rutting amid the sirens.
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There is a hush, and the sweetest song ever sung by sirens is heard, full of languor and soft seductiveness.
Richard Wagner|John F. Runciman
The third son resists the sirens, ransoms his brothers, and also pays the debts of a dead man, whose corpse is being maltreated.
The Grateful Dead|Gordon Hall Gerould
The Sirens resemble mermaids, having the faces of women, but bodies of flying fish.
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Soft music was heard at a distance, or sirens sung on the rocks.
The Tatler, Volume Two|Various
What a terribly immoral influence must such exhibitions have upon such an uneducated crowd as surrounded these sirens!
Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 2, No. 12, May, 1851.|Various
Sirens
In classical mythology, evil creatures who lived on a rocky island, singing in beautiful voices in an effort to lure sailors to shipwreck and death. Odysseus ordered his crew to plug their ears to escape the Sirens' fatal song.
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Figuratively, a “siren” is a beautiful or tempting woman; a “siren song” is any irresistible distraction.
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