Lyonnesse
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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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 Onions, Oliver [pseud.]
They drove the traitors back until they came at length to Lyonnesse by the sea.
From King Arthur and His Knights by Enright, Walter J.
I saw Provence and that enchanted shore, And lotus-isles amid the dreamy South, And champions out of mediæval lore Looking at large for ladies in distress Round storied Lyonnesse.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, February 4, 1914 by Seaman, Owen, Sir
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 Wilson, Augusta J. Evans
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