29 Verbs to Use for the Word fawn

Fairyfoot had entered the great pleasure-garden, and was wondering where it would be best to go first, when he saw a lovely white fawn, with a golden collar about its neck, come bounding over the flower-beds, and he heard, at a little distance, a sweet voice, saying, sorrowfully, "Come back, my fawn; I cannot run and play with you as I once used to.

You yet may spy the fawn at play, The hare upon the green; But the sweet face of Lucy Gray Will nevermore be seen.

The mists, which went before her, hid the fawns that drew her, but could not hide the shells and tropic flowers with which she playedbut could not hide the lovely smiles by which she uttered her trust in the mighty cathedral, and in the cherubim that looked down upon her from the topmast shafts of its pillars.

She came one day, accompanied by a half-grown boy, carrying a young fawn she had brought me as a present.

Dearest, shall I catch thee wanton fawns, or flies Whose woven wings the summer dyes Of many colours?

COLOURAll colours allowable, red, fawn, black, black and tan, sable, brindle, white and parti-coloured.

Behold the sovereign on her throne of bronze, While crouching at her feet a lion fawns; The glittering court with gold and gems ablaze With ancient splendor of the glorious days Of Accad's sovereignty.

Then Orlando went like a doe to find its fawn and give it food; and presently returned, bringing Adam in his arms; and the duke said, "Set down your venerable burthen; you are both welcome:" and they fed the old man, and cheered his heart, and he revived, and recovered his health and strength again.

One of them gave him a white fawn, and Sertorius declared that it had been given him by Diana.

And mark! Laved are the roots of trees by deep canals , Whose glassy waters tremble in the breeze; The sprouting verdure of the leaves is dimmed By dusky wreaths of upward curling smoke From burnt oblations; and on new-mown lawns Around our car graze leisurely the fawns.

We packed the carcass into camp and while removing the skin, Nat took occasion to congratulate me, on being able to so perfectly imitate a fawn as to lure a panther from its lair; advising me however, to give up deer-stalking until I struck a better streak of luck.

"And now he faintly kens the bounding fawn, And villager abroad at early toil.

I knew about the slash fences, and ketched a spotted fawn once, hid in one on 'em.

Ten miles west of the swamp they killed a fawn.

While at Green Bay I procured a young fawn, and carried it to be a tenant of my garden and grounds.

The doe produces one fawn, sometimes two, but rarely three.

It was now evident that the man on the Little Chippewa from whom we purchased the fawn was but an advanced member of the same party.

The picture that he put on a board represented a boy strangling two serpents and a lion pursuing a fawn.

Upon which, before tasting the water thyself, thou didst kindly offer some to the little creature, saying fondly:'Drink first, gentle fawn.'

Ere its curtain be withdrawn, Trembling at the thought of error As the shadows scare the fawn.

Opinions differ considerably on the colour question; one judge will set back a fawn and put forward a pied dog, whilst others will do the reverse.

Where she had seen only a cockeyed reveller indulging himself in a drunken prank or whimsy, I had spotted the hunted fawn.

The animal was insane with the hunting madness, and he was plainly stalking her, just as his fierce mother might have stalked a fawn, across the young grass.

He gathers perhaps some wild fruits from the bushes; he picks up perhaps some shell-fish from the water's edge; he surprises a fawn or a kid, and throttles it and tears it to pieces with his fingers; he kindles a fire perhaps by rubbing two dry sticks together till they ignite with the friction; and so he keeps himself alive for a few days; but how little progress does he make!

He entered cottages, and tore away the food from the tables; and ran up the craggy hills and down into the valleys; and chased beasts as well as men, tearing the fawn and the goat to pieces, and stuffing their flesh into his stomach with fierce will.

29 Verbs to Use for the Word  fawn