fawn

• The fawn, far more desirable than its elder, could be had for the mere finding But the fawn had already learned one of the most important lessons of life and this bit of knowledge had saved him from an untimely end no fewer than seven times during his ten days on earth Now, the fawn was prettily spotted, and most persons who delve into such matters and try to reconcile cause and effect, particularly from a distant point of view, would have said that this coloration was the means of rendering it, crouching among the ferns with head and neck flattened to the ground, invisible to its enemies. —  The Black Phantom
• But you see the fawn is here with Athena of the dew, though she has no lyre; and I have myself no doubt that in this particular relation to the gods of morning it always stands as the symbol of wavering and glancing motion on the ground, as well as of the light and shadow through the leaves, chequering the ground as the fawn is dappled. —  Lectures on Art Delivered before the University of Oxford in Hilary term, 1870
• At the foot of the mountain were the warm baths of Himera The term Nebros, which was substituted by the Greeks for Nimrod, signifying a fawn, gave occasion to many allusions about a fawn, and fawn-skin, in the Dionusiaca, and other mysteries. —  A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I.
• Through breaks in their ranks the blue and purple of the hills shone startlingly vivid and beyond the prairie lay like a fawn-colored sea across which dark shadows trailed The ford was nearly a mile wide, a shallow current, in some places only a glaze, but with shifting sands stirring beneath it. —  The Emigrant Trail
• And as soon as her body was in ashes the spell was removed from the fawn, and he took human shape again; and then the sister and brother lived happily together until the end RAPUNZEL THERE once lived a man and his wife, who had long wished for a child, but in vain. —  Household Stories by the Brothers Grimm

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