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  • "Who brought the sickness, Koolau?" demanded Kiloliana, a lean and wiry man with a face so like a laughing faun's that one might expect to see the cloven hoofs under him.

    Koolau the Leper 2010

  • Its face was as withered and dark as an old apple, and long ago it had been terribly injured-one eye was gone, leaving a web of white scars behind, and the faun's shaggy haunches were dappled with white scars, relics of terrible wounds.

    Tran Siberian Michael J. Solender 2010

  • The faun's terror had been so real that Kellen felt his own heart beat faster in response, and for the first time in a long time the memories of his fever-dreams were sharp and urgent.

    Tran Siberian Michael J. Solender 2010

  • The patients are the faun and the target of the faun's lust, a sylph in the guise of a ballet dancer who has ruptured her Achilles 'heel.

    At Kennedy Center, 'Faun' improves a disabled dancer's diagnosis 2010

  • "They took Picasso up to their atelier and gave him a bit of the local red clay, which he modeled into his first three pieces -- two tiny bulls and a faun's head," recalls gallery owner and potter, Dominique Sassi, who later apprenticed alongside the artist.

    Summer of Picasso 2009

  • The faun's demand that Ofelia sacrifice her infant brother to gain entrance to her magical realm is clearly a test.

    You Know, For Kids Abigail Nussbaum 2007

  • Its face was as withered and dark as an old apple, and long ago it had been terribly injured — one eye was gone, leaving a web of white scars behind, and the faun's shaggy haunches were dappled with white scars, relics of terrible wounds.

    The Outstretched Shadow 2003

  • The faun's terror had been so real that Kellen felt his own heart beat faster in response, and for the first time in a long time the memories of his fever-dreams were sharp and urgent.

    The Outstretched Shadow 2003

  • Then Imbri changed to nymph form and went to tousle the faun's hair, and he patted her pert bare bottom.

    Zombie Lover Anthony, Piers 1998

  • Then Imbri changed to nymph form and went to tousle the faun's hair, and he patted her pert bare bottom.

    Zombie Lover Anthony, Piers 1998

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