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Lorelei   /lˈɔrɪlˌaɪ/   Listen
Lorelei

noun
1.
A Siren of German legend who lured boatmen in the Rhine to destruction.





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"Lorelei" Quotes from Famous Books



... that this inopportune flirting with fate must stop; that I must give over dallying with sensations, or it would soon be all over with me. I was falling a prey to the native Lorelei—for all these spots in Japan have their familiar devils—subjectively, as befits a modern man. I numbed sensibility as best I could and cared only to make each step secure. Between the Nirvana within and the Nirvana below, it ...
— Noto, An Unexplored Corner of Japan • Percival Lowell
... by my German cousin's pretty name,—Lorelei," answered the mermaid, kissing back ...
— Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag VI - An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving, Etc. • Louisa M. Alcott
... has seen more, or at least seen into farther spaces, than most of treadmill-trotting humanity. She wore one of the new frocks for which Phillida and she had already made a flying trip to town; a most sophisticated frock from Fifth Avenue, with frivolous French shoes to correspond. Her hair of a Lorelei was demurely coiled and wound about her little head. Yet some indescribable atmosphere closed her delicately around, an impalpable wall between her and the commonplace. Even the desiccated, material Professor was ...
— The Thing from the Lake • Eleanor M. Ingram


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