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He slides the one he calls Faun into the nearest cell.
The Peacock King: Book 1, Chapter 1 Erica 'Irk' Bercegeay 2010
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The Faun is convinced that Ofelia is the long lost princess, so he points her towards the trials and assumes she'll pass them.
busy busy busy 2007
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Read this: Nijinsky's first choreographic effort, Prelude a l'apresmidi d'un Faune Prelude to the Afternoon of the Faun was the most controversial performance of the Ballet Russe in 1912, signaling the beginning of a shift towards modernism.
Hey, James Wolcott called me a peeing intellectual nobility. Ann Althouse 2008
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"Then we will have to hurry," Wren declared, and called Faun back to her shoulder.
The Elf Queen of Shannara Brooks, Terry 1992
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He was in fact a Faun, which is a creature Shasta had never seen a picture of or even heard of.
The Horse And His Boy Lewis, C S 1954
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He was in fact a Faun, which is a creature Shasta had never seen a picture of or even heard of.
The Horse and His Boy Lewis, C. S. 1954
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He was a singer of lyrics and pastorals, a lover of the material beauty about him, and it is because he passed by the pietistic, the classic, the literary, and showed the beauty of physical life as an art motive that he is called the Faun of the Renaissance.
A Text-Book of the History of Painting John Charles Van Dyke 1894
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The Faun is the marble image of a young man, leaning his right arm on the trunk or stump of a tree; one hand hangs carelessly by his side; in the other he holds the fragment of a pipe, or some such sylvan instrument of music.
The Marble Faun - Volume 1 The Romance of Monte Beni Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834
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Some, like "Fancy Free," "Faun" and "The Cage," show every sign of having been built to last, and such flawed efforts as the over-sentimental "Dances at a Gathering" have managed to retain much of their original audience appeal.
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Authorities say that the sculpture called the "Faun" is just one of hundreds made by a family of convicted forgers who duped the art world for years.
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