Citations:sire-land


 * 1)  a fatherland, ancestral homeland
 * 2) *1844 George Jones, Tecumseh and the prophet of the West: an historical Israel-Indian tragedy (Longman's: London) Act II, Scene I, p.41:
 * The Anglo-Saxon! The White-man forgets
 * The ancient chronicles of his Sire-land!
 * 1) *1846 James Clarence Mangan "The Lovely Land (On a Landscape Painted by M......)":
 * Shame to me, my own, my sire-land,
 * Not to know thy soil and skies!
 * Shame, that through Maclise's eyes
 * I first see thee, Ireland!
 * 1) *1849 Herman Melville Mardi: and A Voyage Thither Vol. II; Chapter LVII: "They Hearken Unto A Voice From The Gods":
 * had your population been pressed and packed, like that of your old sire-land Dominora.
 * 1) *1853 James Henry Notes of a Twelve Years' Voyage of Discovery in the First Six Books of the Eneis (Dresden: Meinhold) Book IV, p.175:
 * [...] then briefly thus addresses Barce,
 * Sicheus' nurse, for in old sire-land lay
 * Her own nurse, a black cinder [...]
 * 1) *1902 Michael F. Howley "The Flag of Newfoundland":
 * Hail the pink, the white, the green,
 * Our patriot flag long may it stand
 * Our Sirelands twine their emblems trine
 * To form the flag of Newfoundland.
 * 1) *1912 Peadar Kearney "The Soldier's Song" Irish Freedom No.23, September 1912:
 * Sworn to be free. No more our ancient sireland
 * Shall shelter the despot or the slave.