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  • The village is filmed in the Guilin area, chosen for its picturesque Karst landscape Guilin to Karst is like Sedona to the Monument Valley, i.e. avec water and greenery, while one important thread is that the cholera infected village is easier reached from the Chinese city where the Fanes lived by water.

    Archive 2007-06-01 Sun Bin 2007

  • The village is filmed in the Guilin area, chosen for its picturesque Karst landscape Guilin to Karst is like Sedona to the Monument Valley, i.e. avec water and greenery, while one important thread is that the cholera infected village is easier reached from the Chinese city where the Fanes lived by water.

    China's river system, and the Painted Veil Sun Bin 2007

  • Between those two extremes ranged a number of alien folk-the Were Riders, those who tended the Fanes of personified Powers and Forces, a race which lived in rivers and lakes, one which chose not to be too far parted from woods and forests, and some that were wholly animal in form, yet with an intelligence which set them apart from any animal the outer world knew.

    Year of the Unicorn Norton, Andre 1965

  • Fanes rebuilt, and fair towns, shall with jubilee ring,

    Mosaics of Grecian History Marcius Willson

  • All the Fanes and the Ferrars are relations of hers.

    The Key Wentworth, Patricia 1944

  • The designs for these sacred Fanes, to be raised to the glory of the

    Messages to the Bahá’í World: 1950–1957 1897-1957 Shoghi Effendi 1927

  • The Flotilla Company does not give an opportunity of landing to see these "Fanes of Pagan," which is very disappointing.

    From Edinburgh to India & Burmah 1900

  • "Well -- to me, for example -- she is acceptable as children are acceptable -- a blessed, sweet, clean relief from the women of the Fanes 'set, for example?"

    The Younger Set 1899

  • "Oh, the Fanes -- the Ruthv --" He stammered himself into silence.

    The Younger Set 1899

  • No doubt he'd hear from the Orchils through the Fanes.

    The Younger Set 1899

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