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684 from Greek and Roman Materials

1. Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898) alphabetic letter M
   A native of Tyre, a Greek rhetorician and Platonic philosopher, who lived during the reigns of the Antonines and of Commodus, and was the author of forty-one extant dissertations ( (16.18)

2. Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon alphabetic letter *x, entry xa^na^nai=os
   as Appellat., merchant (of Tyre or Sidon), . (16.18)

3. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD) alphabetic letter G
   The fact is, Ptolemy, in common with all his predecessors, Hipparchus, Polybius, Marinus of Tyre, greatly extended the degrees of longitude of this part of the world; hence his Caspian Sea, Persian Gulf, and bay of Bengal are all much greater in breadth E. and W. than in length N. and S., which is just contrary to the fact. (12.81)

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1 from The Works of Christopher Marlowe

1. Christopher Marlowe, The Tragedie of Doctor Faustus (B text) (ed. Hilary Binda) line 35
   Horse. Now sirs, you shall heare how villanously he seru'd
   mee: I went to him yesterday to buy a horse of him, and he
   Would by no meanes sell him vnder 40 Dollors; so sir, because
   I knew him to be such a horse, as would run ouer hedge and
   ditch, and neuer tyre, I gaue him his money; so when I had
   my horse, Doctor Fauster bad me ride him night and day, and
   spare him no time; but, quoth he, in any case ride him not in-
   to the water. (2.03)

43 from Renaissance Materials

1. Alexander Schmidt, Shakespeare Lexicon and Quotation Dictionary entry Tyre
   Tyre, the town of Tyrus in Phoenicia: . (12.16)

2. E. A. Abbott, A Shakespearean Grammar section 2, subsection 2
   Pericles of Tyre. (8.24)

3. William Shakespeare, Pericles Prince of Tyre (eds. W. Aldis Wright, W. G. Clark) act 1, scene 3, line 44
   Hel. We have no reason to desire it,
   
   Commended to our master, not to us:
   
   Yet, ere you shall depart, this we desire,
   
   As friends to Antioch, we may feast in Tyre.
   (6.87)

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2 from The Tragedie of Anthonie, and Cleopatra

1. Appendices section DATE OF COMPOSITION, subsection Steevens
   The booke of Pericles prynce of Tyre . (5.30)

2. Appendices section ENGLISH CRITICISM, subsection Richard Garnett
   The close relationship between Antony and Cleopatra and Pericles, Prince of Tyre, is shown by the circumstance that, though only Pericles was printed, both were entered for publication on the same day, May 20, 1608. (2.37)

1 from The Tragedie of Coriolanus

1. William Shakespeare, The Tragedie of Coriolanus: The Tragedie of Coriolanus (ed. Horace Howard Furness, Jr., A. B.; Litt. D.) act 1, scene 1, line 46
   1. Cit. If I must not, I neede not be barren of Accusa-
   tions he hath faults (with surplus) to tyre in repetition. (4.65)

11 from The Bolles Collection on the History of London

1. Sidney Lee, Dictionary of National Biography: Index and Epitome alphabetic letter R, entry 25552
   bishop of Bethlehem and chancellor of the Latin kingdom of Jerusalem; stated by William of Tyre to have been an Englishman; first appears in a charter of 1146 as chancellor under Baldwin III; nominated archbishop of Tyre, 1147, but his appointment invalidated, 1150, by Eugenius; elected bishop of Bethlehem, 1156. [xlvii. (10.88)

2. Sidney Lee, Dictionary of National Biography: Index and Epitome alphabetic letter W, entry 32825
   archbishop of Tyre; born in England; prior of Holy Sepulchre at Jerusalem; archbishop of Tyre, 1128. [lxi. (6.82)

3. Sidney Lee, Dictionary of National Biography: Index and Epitome alphabetic letter M, entry 19564
   Irish catholic prelate; educated at the Irish College, Paris; ordained priest, 1825; agitated for the repeal of the union, 1829; coadjutor to the bishop of Derry and nominated bishop of Ortosia in the archbishopric of Tyre, in partibus infidelium, 1845; D.D. [xxxv. (3.78)

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9 from American Memory: California

1. Life and adventures of Col. L. A. Norton page 137
   We Americans, with the nations of Europe, flock to the old world, and there exhaust the brightest intellects and spend untold millions of dollars hunting for the last records and hidden treasures of a Tyre and a Troy; to relocate the lost site of a Babylon; to hunt for hidden manuscripts in the catacombs, and excavate the lava-covered plains for a buried Pompeii or Herculaneum, or hunt hieroglyphics among the pyramids of Egypt; when upon our own continent lies, unexplored and unnoticed, the richest fields in the world for the antiquarian. (3.88)

2. Eldorado, or, Adventures in the path of empire: comprising a voyage to California, via Panama; life in San Francisco and Monterey; pictures of the gold region, and experiences of Mexican travel. By Bayard Taylor page 5
   --Mount Carmel, St. Jean d'Acre, Tyre. (3.32)

3. A Gil Blas in California. By Alexandre Dumas. Translated by Marguerite Eyer Wilbur page xxvii
   Having reached the mouth of the Euphrates she founds Babylon, Nineveh, Sidon, & Tyre, descends to the sea like the giant Polyphemus &, with her right hand deposits Pergame at the extremity of Africa; with the left Carthage at the tip of Africa; with both hands Athens and Piræus. (2.99)

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12 from American Memory: Upper Midwest

1. Michigan biographies, including Members of Congress, elective state officers, Justices of the Supreme Court, Members of the Michigan Legislature, Board of Regents of the University of Michigan, State Board of Agriculture and State Board of Education page 278
   Fraternally a member of Tyre Lodge No. 18, F. & A. M., Temple Chapter 21, R. A. M. Mt. Moriah Council No. 6, R. & S. M. Jacobs Commandery No. 10, Coldwater Lodge 1023, B. P. O. E., and Butler Grange No. 18. (6.87)

2. Personal memoirs of a residence of thirty years with the Indian tribes on the American frontiers: with brief notices of passing events, facts, and opinions, A. D. 1812 to A. D. 1842 page 557
   After seeing Cairo, the Pyramids, Memphis, and, I hope, the Red Sea, we shall proceed to Palestine, look at Jerusalem, see the Dead Sea, and other interesting places of Holy Writ, pass by and touch at Tyre and Sidon, land at Beyrout, and visit Damascus and Baalbec, and probably Palmyra; touch at Smyrna, proceed to Constantinople and the Black Sea, and then to Greece, &c.; after that to the islands of the Archipelago, then up the Adriatic to Venice and Trieste, and thence return to this place. (3.98)

3. Facts and Figures about Michigan; a hand-book of the state, statistical, political, financial, economical, commercial. By Frank J. Bramhall page 36
   Tyre ∥ ‡ 8 (3.98)

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6 from American Memory: Chesapeake Bay

1. John Herbert Claiborne, Seventy-five years in old Virginia with some account of the life of the author and some history of the people amongst whom his lot was cast,—their character, their conduct before the war, during the war and after the war, page 90
   This church is now under the care of Dr. Tyre, a learned and eloquent German scholar, and numbers amongst its members nearly all of the Israelitish citizens of Petersburg. (3.32)

2. Peter Force, Tracts and other papers relating principally to the origin, settlement, and progress of the colonies in North America from the discovery of the country to the year 1776. Collected by Peter Force. Vol. 3 page 6
   At our arrival we were welcomed with a whole tyre of guns, and with a very kind aspect in the captain. (3.24)

3. Charles Henry Ambler, The life and diary of John Floyd governor of Virginia, an apostle of secession and the father of the Oregon country Oregon Country page 71
   He saw, in fact, a modern Tyre in America. (2.63)

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