Lyonnesse
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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"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
What a history had unfolded since that afternoon when I had found him in the Lyonnesse Club, gazing at his image in the glass of a framed print on the wall!
From The Tower of Oblivion by Oliver [pseud.] Onions
The dignity of the old Lyonnesse blood asserted its ascendency.
From Under Two Flags by Ouida
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 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
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