Lyonnesse
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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Now that beautiful "might have been" lay irrecoverable as the "lost land of Lyonnesse," under its transparent shroud, and haunting echoes of tender tones tolled faintly, like buried bells of Folge Fond.
From A Speckled Bird by Wilson, Augusta J. Evans
When I set out for Lyonnesse, A hundred miles away, The rime was on the spray, And starlight lit my lonesomeness When I set out for Lyonnesse A hundred miles away.
From Satires of Circumstance, lyrics and reveries with miscellaneous pieces by Hardy, Thomas
The spirit, the atmosphere, is that of a glory receding into the unknown and the West of Wonder; into Lyonnesse, into Avallon, into the Sunset Isles.
From The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 by Morris, Kenneth
The region of Lyonnesse was supposed to be adjacent to Cornwall, and the sea now covers it.
From Selections from Wordsworth and Tennyson by Wordsworth, William
The Lyonnesse Club meets in an electric-lighted basement-suite a little way off the Strand, and as I descended the stairs I saw him in the narrow passage.
From The Tower of Oblivion by Onions, Oliver [pseud.]
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