Lyonnesse
Americannoun
noun
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For Arthur, long before they crown'd him King, Roving the trackless realms of Lyonnesse, Had found a glen, gray boulder and black tarn.
From Alfred Tennyson by Andrew Lang
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 Oliver [pseud.] Onions
"Not long ago you spoke of joining the Lyonnesse."
From The Tower of Oblivion by Oliver [pseud.] Onions
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
What would bechance at Lyonnesse While I should sojourn there No prophet durst declare, Nor did the wisest wizard guess What would bechance at Lyonnesse While I should sojourn there.
From Satires of Circumstance, lyrics and reveries with miscellaneous pieces by Thomas Hardy
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