Antre

Aye, millions sparkled on a vein of gold, / Along whose track the prince quick footsteps told, / With all its lines abrupt and angular: / Out-shooting sometimes, like a meteor-star, / Through a vast antre;

1879, George Meredith, The Egoist, Chapter XXIII: Treats of the Union of Temper and Policy, Seeing him as she did, she turned from him and shunned his house as the antre of an ogre.

Hereat quoth he to himself, "If I enter this antre, haply shall I lose myself, and perish of hunger and thirst!"