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The stream that bears thy name, thine antres arched
Prometheus Bound 2002
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The stream that bears thy name, thine antres arched
Prometheus Bound 2002
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Shakespeare's Moor, to speak of "most disastrous chances, of _moving_ accidents by flood and field, of antres vast and deserts idle, rough quarries, rocks and hills whose heads touch heaven."
Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science Various
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And sold to slavery; of my redemption thence, And portance in my travel's history: Wherein of antres vast and deserts idle,
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She had spoken, like Othello, of antres vast and deserts idle, rough quarries, rocks and hills whose heads touched heaven, and of the cannibals that each other eat, the Anthropophagi, and men whose heads do grow beneath their shoulders.
The Girl on the Boat 1928
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Lil voit dabord ce mont dont les antres profonds
Épître a M. 1920
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He loved "the antres vast and deserts idle," and he had the flair, the houndscent, as it were, to find the hearts of strange peoples.
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Othello told Desdemona of "antres vast and deserts idle," not of skeptical landladies.
Those Who Smiled And Eleven Other Stories Perceval Gibbon 1902
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Of the fretted rocks and antres hoar that overhang the sea, 5
Theocritus 1895
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In "antres vast and deserts idle" I hear the poet, and when the verse swings to --
The Man Shakespeare Frank Harris 1893
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