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  • Before the gates lie asleep two 'Sylvans' -- i.e. men of the woods.

    The History of London Walter Besant 1868

  • The gleaning of candid interludes from the lives of the Sylvans, who settle in a neighborhood lined with newly planted sycamores -- a supposed idyll where the "girls are all Sandra Dees/In their flats and capris" -- owes a debt to the pioneering PBS documentary, "An American Family."

    'Sycamore Trees' is a compelling but incomplete dramatic musical 2010

  • We've got our share of Barrys, Garys and Lees but we have one or two Lilians, Hasneys, Akoss and Sylvans too lest we be thought too provincial

    Shock news...Plymouth Argyle's Cup Run is on 2007

  • We've got our share of Barrys, Garys and Lees but we have one or two Lilians, Hasneys, Akoss and Sylvans too lest we be thought too provincial

    Shock news...Plymouth Argyle's Cup Run is on 2007

  • -"Hand-painted MKS Sylvans with hemp double straps not included."

    BSNYC Friday Fun Quiz! BikeSnobNYC 2009

  • We've got our share of Barrys, Garys and Lees but we have one or two Lilians, Hasneys, Akoss and Sylvans too lest we be thought too provincial

    52 entries from February 2007 2007

  • -"Hand-painted MKS Sylvans with hemp double straps not included."

    Archive 2009-02-01 BikeSnobNYC 2009

  • "And I thought you were mad to say something like that-that is, until we met the Sylvans."

    If I Pay Thee Not In Gold Lackey, Mercedes 1993

  • While they were unsaddling, one of the Sylvans, its mask-like face actually creased with a faint frown, approached them with a hint of aggression in its posture.

    If I Pay Thee Not In Gold Lackey, Mercedes 1993

  • Surrounded by horrified Sylvans, it limped off into the darkness.

    If I Pay Thee Not In Gold Lackey, Mercedes 1993

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