Our woods are sylvan, and their inhabitants woodmen and rustics. From LearnThat.org. [Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), U.S. philosopher, author, naturalist.]
The royal mountain, then as now, formed a background of rare sylvan beauty. From Wordnik.com. [Canada] Reference
A shady sylvan glade. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
O'er mossy hills — in sylvan vallies fair, —. From Wordnik.com. [Thetford Chalybeate Spa. A Poem by a Parishioner of St. Peters] Reference
He hurriedly explained to the others that Pocahontas was evidently intending to do them special honour in welcoming them with some kind of sylvan masque. From Wordnik.com. [The Princess Pocahontas] Reference
Shall to the shady woods, for sylvan game, resort. From Wordnik.com. [The Aeneid English] Reference
Beyond the last cabin they entered a sylvan world all their own. From Wordnik.com. [Judith of the Cumberlands] Reference
To be rehearsing lovelorn shepherds and shepherdesses in sylvan dells. From Wordnik.com. [A Village of Vagabonds] Reference
But truth be told, Homer's sylvan glades are becoming something of a pest. From Wordnik.com. [Beautiful But Deadly] Reference
What nature poet can do justice to such sylvan loveliness as we find in the. From Wordnik.com. [The Kentucky Ranger] Reference
Gradually the scene changes to the one of sylvan solitude in the first act. From Wordnik.com. [The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas] Reference
It was in that sylvan retreat by the flowing river we nearly met our Waterloo. From Wordnik.com. [A Pirate of Parts] Reference
The stream glides over the brim of its sylvan bowl and goes on its way rejoicing. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
A sylvan retreat indeed for lovers, and I had heard it was much frequented by them. From Wordnik.com. [The Rose of Old St. Louis] Reference
The next morning came with sunshine, and the merry carols of all the sylvan choirs. From Wordnik.com. [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851] Reference
It is curious how many sylvan spots one can find almost within plain sight of Paris. From Wordnik.com. [The Automobilist Abroad] Reference
Those sylvan scenes abound in game, and are known to contain formidable wild animals. From Wordnik.com. [Byeways in Palestine] Reference
The whispering of the winds through the sylvan shades is lost to the captive forever. From Wordnik.com. [Ohio Arbor Day 1913: Arbor and Bird Day Manual Issued for the Benefit of the Schools of our State] Reference
A large and superb picture of a sylvan dell in the side of a rock, was one exception. From Wordnik.com. [Mizora: A Prophecy A MSS. Found Among the Private Papers of the Princess Vera Zarovitch] Reference
The scene changes now to one of sylvan solitude, through which two wanderers are sauntering. From Wordnik.com. [The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas] Reference
The little spats and sensations of the choir-rehearsals are entertainment for the sylvan boy. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878] Reference
The thin stream twines about their roots, or springs over sandstone bars, in sylvan, solitude. From Wordnik.com. [Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter] Reference
The road was a pleasant one, firm and dry, with trim grass edgings and sylvan seats on either side. From Wordnik.com. [A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France] Reference
Just motor over to Microsoft's sylvan campus east of Seattle and ask passersby: "" Where's Bill? ''. From Wordnik.com. [Gates, Face To Face] Reference
I think the effect of this sylvan music is somewhat diminished by the length of the pauses or rests. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858] Reference
"And finally, fairest Belle-bouche, we should cross the bright streams on the pretty sylvan bridges ----". From Wordnik.com. [The Youth of Jefferson A Chronicle of College Scrapes at Williamsburg, in Virginia, A.D. 1764] Reference
We were in a sylvan solitude, and somewhere near was heard the musical flow of water through the tangled copse. From Wordnik.com. [Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler] Reference
Their little airs of sylvan simplicity were very pretty; and the gallant gentlemen were not backward in their part. From Wordnik.com. [The Youth of Jefferson A Chronicle of College Scrapes at Williamsburg, in Virginia, A.D. 1764] Reference
Suddenly you jut round an enormous rock, and find yourself in a river of still more sylvan gentleness than the Avon. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845] Reference
They were always frequented by children, who could romp and play in these sylvan retreats of beauty in perfect security. From Wordnik.com. [Mizora: A Prophecy A MSS. Found Among the Private Papers of the Princess Vera Zarovitch] Reference
A fresh growth of foreign vegetation was thus inaugurated, as these sylvan colonists struck their saplings into an alien soil. From Wordnik.com. [Through the Malay Archipelago] Reference
But they are now seen no more, and a handsome and comparatively harmless ornament of our sylvan scenery is gone beyond recall. From Wordnik.com. [Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter] Reference
Monkeys caper and chatter in the teak-trees bordering a circular terrace, and an ideal sylvan path leads to the Signal Station. From Wordnik.com. [Through the Malay Archipelago] Reference
And very soon was the tribe itself swept away by the same resistless torrent which divested their land of its sylvan adornments. From Wordnik.com. [Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 3 (of 3)] Reference
Jonquil! he has shared his master's fortune fairly -- the better and the worse; for years his humble comrade in the sylvan solitudes of. From Wordnik.com. [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851] Reference
We often hear of the Naiades forming alliances with mortals, and also of their being wooed by the sylvan deities of the woods and dales. From Wordnik.com. [Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome] Reference
To Fossard, eighteen miles: the first six through the forest, just sufficiently sylvan to suffer by a comparison with that of Windsor. From Wordnik.com. [Itinerary of Provence and the Rhone Made During the Year 1819] Reference
The long range of hills covered with a dense forest of the precious nutmeg trees, attains an ideal of sylvan scenery surpassing even the glorious palm-woods of Java. From Wordnik.com. [Through the Malay Archipelago] Reference
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