antre

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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 Stevenson, Robert Louis

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 Thompson, Francis

The Maroccan, the Necromancer, followed her about until she returned to her antre; then, awaiting till the evening evened, he arose and repaired to a vintner's store where he drank a cup of wine.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 13 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

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 Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

Aquila se souvint qu'il avait p�n�tr� Dans un antre sauvage et de tous ignor�, Grotte creus�e aux flancs de ces Alpes sublimes, Ou l'aigle fait son aire au-dessus des ab�mes.

From The Paris Sketch Book by Thackeray, William Makepeace