ANNETTE, daughter of Mathis and Catherine, the bride of Christian, captain of the patrol.—­J.E.  Ware, The Polish Jew.

ANNETTE AND LUBLIN, by Marmontel, imitated from the Daphnis and Chloe of Longos (q.v.).

ANNIE KILBURN, the conscientious heiress who returns to a New England homestead after long residence abroad, and endeavors to do her duty in the station to which Providence has called her.  Prim, pale, pretty, and not youthful except in heart.—­Annie Kilburn, by William Dean Howells (1888).

AN’NIE LAU’RIE, eldest of the three daughters of sir Robert Laurie, of Maxwelton.  In 1709 she married James Fergusson, of Craigdarroch, and was the mother of Alexander Fergusson, the hero of Burns’s song The Whistle.  The song of Annie Laurie was written by William Douglas, of Fingland, in the stewardry of Kirkcud’bright, hero of the song Willie was a Wanton Wag. (See WHISTLE.)

Bayard Taylor has used the ballad with thrilling effect in his poem The Song of the Camp.

They sang of love, and not of fame,
Forgot was Britain’s glory,
Each heart recalled a different name,
But all sang “Annie Laurie.” 
Voice after voice caught up the song
Until its tender passion
Rose, like an anthem, rich and strong,
Their battle-eve confession.

* * * * *

Dear girl! her name he dared not speak,
But as the song grew louder,
Something upon the soldier’s cheek
Washed off the stain of powder.

* * * * *

AN’NIE WIN’NIE, one of the old sibyls at Alice Gray’s death; the other was Ailsie Gourlay.—­Sir W. Scott, The Bride of Lammermoor (time, William III.).

ANNIR, king of Inis-thona (an island of Scandinavia).  He had two sons (Argon and Ruro) and one daughter.  One day Cor’malo, a neighboring chief, came and begged the honor of a tournament.  Argon granted the request, and overthrew him, which so vexed Cormalo that during a hunt he shot both the brothers secretly with his bow.  Their dog Runa ran to the palace, and howled so as to attract attention; whereupon Annir followed the hound, and found both his sons dead, and on his return he further found that Cormalo had carried off his daughter.  Oscar, son of Ossian, led an army against the villain, and slew him; then liberating the young lady, he took her back to Inis-thona, and delivered her to her father.—­Ossian ("The War of Inis-thona").

AN’NOPHEL, daughter of Cas’silane (3 syl.) general of
Candy.—­Beaumont and Fletcher, The Laws of Candy (1647).

ANSELM, prior of St. Dominic, the confessor of king Henry IV.—­Sir W.
Scott, The Fair Maid of Perth (time, Henry IV.).