Scyros

How to use Scyros in a sentence

• They buried him at night, carrying his body by torchlight to an olive grove on the isle of Scyros, a mile inland on the heights.

  Heroes of To-Day | Mary R. Parkman

• To prevent his hearing anything about the war, she persuaded him to visit the King of Scyros.

  The Story of the Greeks | H. A. Guerber

• My great-grandfather went to Scyros the 293 next day, and remained there five years.

  The Teacher | George Herbert Palmer

• The damsel of Scyros being united to the Hmonian hero, is a well-known story indeed, but not unworthy to be related.

  Ars Amatoria, or The Art Of Love | Ovid

• Next they enslaved Scyros, the island in the Aegean, containing a Dolopian population, and colonized it themselves.

  The History of the Peloponnesian War | Thucydides