sylvans

It was probably this creature, seldom seen, but when once seen never forgotten, which occasioned the ancient belief in the god Pan, with his sylvans and satyrs.

Count Robert of Paris 2008

It is hard to determine precisely what the Greeks and Romans understood by adoring, or whether they adored fauns, sylvans, dryads and naiads as they adored the twelve superior gods.

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

A large family of peasants, as wild and merry as these "hairy sylvans," accompanied us up the mountain with their cattle, on their way to the summer chalets, exhibiting the laughing side of human nature in a manner which it is delightful to witness in the poor.

Itinerary of Provence and the Rhone Made During the Year 1819 John Hughes

The succubus and the incubus (the latter being more common) were adopted by Ch.istendom; St. Augustine (_De Civitate Dei_, Bk. XV, Ch. XXIII) said that the wicked assaults of sylvans and fauns, otherwise called incubi, on women, are so generally affirmed that it would be impudent to deny them.

Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 1 The Evolution of Modesty; The Phenomena of Sexual Periodicity; Auto-Erotism Havelock Ellis 1899

You would have been enraptured with the broad masses of shade and dusky alleys that opened as I advanced, with white statues of fauns and sylvans glimmering amongst them; some of which pour water into sarcophagi of the purest marble, covered with antique relievos.

Dreams Waking Thoughts and Incidents Beckford, William 1891

But hunts-up to the morn the feather'd sylvans sing:

Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Volume 1 George Gilfillan 1845

But hunts-up to the morn the feather'd sylvans sing:

Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Complete George Gilfillan 1845

"They are habited as sylvans," the great artist deigned to observe, if any of his guests could not refrain from admiring the dresses; which he had himself devised.

Lothair Benjamin Disraeli 1842

It was probably this creature, seldom seen, but when once seen never forgotten, which occasioned the ancient belief in the god Pan, with his sylvans and satyrs.

Waverley Novels — Volume 12 Walter Scott 1801

You would have been enraptured with the broad masses of shade and dusky alleys that opened as I advanced, with white statues of fauns and sylvans glimmering amongst them; some of which pour water into sarcophagi of the purest marble, covered with antique relievos.

Dreams, Waking Thoughts, and Incidents William Beckford 1801