Lyonnesse
Americannoun
noun
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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 Augusta J. Evans Wilson
The legend of the fair land of Lyonnesse is supported by the evidence of a submarine forest in Mount's Bay, noted by Borlase in 1757.
From Cornwall by G. E. (Geraldine Edith) Mitton
The dignity of the old Lyonnesse blood asserted its ascendency.
From Under Two Flags by Ouida
"You be hanged!" laughed the Seraph, known to the rest of the world as the Marquis of Rockingham, son of the Duke of Lyonnesse.
From Under Two Flags by Ouida
My portrait need never hang in the Lyonnesse Club to remind Madge Aird that she had once had a friend who had betrayed her.
From The Tower of Oblivion by Oliver [pseud.] Onions
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