antre

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"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 Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)

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

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

Seeing him as she did, she turned from him and shunned his house as the antre of an ogre.

From The Egoist by Meredith, George

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