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• It might have been the dulcet note of some exotic jungle bird, or the sylvan song of wind filtering through a leafless forest The strange trilling had the weird quality of seeming to come from everywhere within the office Electric tension seized Doc's five men They knew what that sound meant. —  005 - The Pirate of the Pacific
• "Piney would be apt to suffer less if he were wholly the sylvan, irresponsible creature, the faun, he sometimes seems to be. —  Sally of Missouri
• We have a lecture in half an hour And you prefer the excellent Dr. Small or some other reverend gentleman to myself--the collegiate to the sylvan, the male to the female lecturer He smiled wearily Our duties are becoming more exacting," he said; "the examination is approaching I should suppose so--you have not been to see me for a whole week A flush passed over Mowbray's brow; then it became as pale as before Our acquaintance has not been an extended one," he said; "I could not intrude upon your society Intrude And abandoning completely her laughing cynical manner, Philippa gave him a look which made him tremble. —  The Youth of Jefferson A Chronicle of College Scrapes at Williamsburg, in Virginia, A.D. 1764
• They wanted a church built that would compare favorably with churches erected under the auspices of other native teachers and other headmen The contributions came in plentifully, sylvan or grassy. —  Cinderella in the South Twenty-Five South African Tales
• The hill behind is scarcely sylvan--yet it has many hazels--a few bushes--here and there a holly--and why or wherefore, who can now tell, a grove of enormous yews. —  Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2

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