siris

Historical Examples

• The results of his investigations were published in the 'Querist' and in 'Siris.'

  British Quarterly Review, American Edition, Vol. LIII

  Various

• He next visited Siris, in lower Italy, a city of which he speaks very favourably.

  Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 4

  Various

• Sic quoque etiamnum Siris, ut ante, nominatus per aliquos in totum Homero gyptus, aliisque Triton.

  In Darkest Africa, Vol. 2; or, The quest, rescue and retreat of Emin, governor of Equatoria

  Henry Morton Stanley

• Bishop Berkeley, in his pamphlet Siris, started a flourishing tar-water craze, which lived long and died slowly.

  Customs and Fashions in Old New England

  Alice Morse Earle

• Earle's "vulgar-spirited" man, with whom "to thrive is to do well," recalls a famous passage in the Siris.

  Microcosmography

  John Earle