antre
Example Sentences
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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
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 Thomas Mitchell
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
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
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 Sir Richard Francis Burton
