antre

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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

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

He had a sweet hover, both for rest and recreation, under the bank, in a placid antre, where the water made no noise, but tickled his belly in digestive ease.

From Crocker's Hole From "Slain By The Doones" By R. D. Blackmore by Blackmore, R. D. (Richard Doddridge)

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

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