antre

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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 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

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)

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

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