avaunt

interjection

1. archaic. begone.

[origin: Middle English from Anglo-French from Old French avant ultimately from Latin ab from + ante before]

HOWARD’S USAGE:

They thronged about in a grisly rout, they caught at his silver rein;
“Avaunt, foul host! Tell Bahram’s ghost Falume has come to Spain!”
Then flame-arrayed rose Bahram’s shade: “What would ye have, Falume?”
“Ho, Bahram who on Earth I slew where Tagus’ waters boom,
Now though I shore your life of yore amid the burning West,
I ride to Hell to bid ye tell where I might ride to rest.
My beard is white and dim my sight and I would fain be gone.
Speak without guile: where lies the isle of mystic Avalon?”

[from “The Ride of Falume”; to read the complete poem see The Collected Poetry of Robert E. Howard, p. 11 and Always Comes Evening, p. 25]

and

And Upty’s blood congealed within his veins.
For in the moonlight bulked a mighty form
That beckoned with a silent tree-like arm.
“Avaunt, foul ghost!” Upty in panic said,
And hurled “The Goose Step” at the phantom’s head.
“Heh heh!” the spook responded with a roar
That woke up G.B. Shaw on Erin’s shore.
“I know you,” Upty said, with accent fierce,
“You are that tough art-saker, Ambrose Bierce!
“Did Villa’s bullets find their fatal mark,
“Or what was it that sent you to the dark?”

[from “A Fable for Critics”; to read the complete poem see The Collected Poetry of Robert E. Howard, p. 589 and Shadows of Dreams, p. 80]