antre
Example Sentences
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Seeing him as she did, she turned from him and shunned his house as the antre of an ogre.
From The Egoist by George Meredith
From almost earliest youth I raised the lids o' the truth, And forced her bend on me her shrinking sight; Ever I knew me Beauty's eremite, In antre of this lowly body set.
From Sister Songs; an offering to two sisters by Francis Thompson
There Chiron old, In the Pelethronian antre, taught thee lore: The plants, he taught, and by the shining stars In forests dim to steer.
From Underwoods by Robert Louis Stevenson
Hereat quoth he to himself, "If I enter this antre, haply shall I lose myself, and perish of hunger and thirst!"
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 16 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
"Sacre nom, nous sommes tombes dans un antre de betes sauvages!" exclaimed Masaroon, starting up, and anxiously examining the skirts of his brocade coat, lest that sudden deluge had caught him.
From London Pride Or When the World Was Younger by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon
