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  • [_A Satyr enters_.] _Satyr_ -- Through yon same bending plain

    Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 4 Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle 1864

  • Bedford was so delighted with hearing of it that he requests a repitition of the amusement. the Satyr is at present gone to see his brother [17] who is now in Devonshire just returned from polishing himself in Russia!

    Letter 49 1793

  • The Satyr was a gleam of classical memory on the part of Moreau, — his face ovine in expression, like the coarser Hebrew type; his voice a harsh bleat, his nether extremities Satanic.

    The Island of Doctor Moreau Herbert George 2006

  • I promise you that once you have convinced my client that his Satyr is the real one, nothing more will be said about the matter.

    Eye of the Beholder Jayne Ann Krentz 1999

  • There is a story that Euphēmus, passing from Caria to the extreme parts of the ocean, discovered many desert islands, and being forced by tempestuous weather to land upon one of them, called Satyrĭda, he found inhabitants covered with yellow hair, having tails not much less than horses.

    Roman Antiquities, and Ancient Mythology For Classical Schools (2nd ed) Charles K. Dillaway

  • What mattered it to Praxiteles whether his Satyr was a useful member of society or not, or whether the young Apollo stood thus idle and listless for an instant or for a millennium, as long as he was so beautiful?

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 76, February, 1864 Various

  • The Satyr was a gleam of classical memory on the part of Moreau, -- his face ovine in expression, like the coarser

    The Island of Doctor Moreau 1906

  • The Satyr was a gleam of classical memory on the part of Moreau, -- his face ovine in expression, like the coarser Hebrew type; his voice a harsh bleat, his nether extremities Satanic.

    The Island of Doctor Moreau Herbert George 1896

  • The Satyr was a gleam of classical memory on the part of Moreau, —his face ovine in expression, like the coarser Hebrew type; his voice a harsh bleat, his nether extremities Satanic.

    How the Beast Folk Taste Blood Herbert George 1896

  • The Satyr is a creature of rude lust, foiled in its brutal appetite by the courtesan Corisca's wiliness.

    Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 1 and 2 The Catholic Reaction John Addington Symonds 1866

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