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 The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 14 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis

The least turn reminds us that we are passing some antre vast, or lateral ridge, occupying a place in the map which thus determines our position.

From Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 1 by Mitchell, Thomas

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

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