"Dantean" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... about the dark doorway were a number of bones, feathers, and the skin of a frog, telling the story of the table d'hote set by this underground dweller before her nestlings. She might have put up the crossbones and skull as a sign at the entrance to her burrow, or even placed there the well-known Dantean legend, "All hope abandon, ye who enter here," neither of which would have been more suggestive than the telltale litter piled up before her door. When I chased her from her hiding-place, she flew down the hill and alighted ...
— Birds of the Rockies • Leander Sylvester Keyser |
