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 Wilson, Augusta J. Evans
The "dolorous death and departing out of this world" in Lyonnesse and elsewhere corresponds to and completes the triumph of Sarras.
From The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) by Saintsbury, George
If they go bathed in the glamour of Armorel of Lyonnesse, by far the best of Besant's books, they will see the romance and charm of these windswept bits of rock.
From Cornwall by Mitton, G. E. (Geraldine Edith)
The dignity of the old Lyonnesse blood asserted its ascendency.
From Under Two Flags by Ouida
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 Onions, Oliver [pseud.]
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