antre
Example Sentences
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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
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 Robert Louis Stevenson
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
"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 M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon
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
