Lyonnesse
Americannoun
noun
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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.]
Part of the fuss my numerous friends made about my Knighthood was this desire of theirs that my portrait should be painted and hung up in the Lyonnesse Club.
From The Tower of Oblivion by Onions, Oliver [pseud.]
But though this is the nearest point to the islands, they can only be reached by steamer from Penzance, the Lyonnesse going and returning alternate days.
From Cornwall by Mitton, G. E. (Geraldine Edith)
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 Lang, Andrew
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
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