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Still, nurse, it was not the fawn's fault; it was the result of their own impatience and folly.
Robin had ceased to bark, and was fawning at the feet of a man who had evidently just entered.
Regardless of such obstacles, the sweet Emily bounded on like a fawn, and I followed delighting in her delight.
If a fawn be half roasted as soon as received, and afterwards made into a hash, it will be very fine.
After a doe was killed on September 21, its fawn lingered in the vicinity for a day or two.
The little animal he saw with the spotted coat, like the skin of a fawn, was a ground squirrel.
On emerging into the open, the whole herd of deer and fawns move slowly into the forest and disappear.
Evidently in spite of my sympathy I was no more to her than I should have been to a wounded fawn.
Kipling says that "we fawned on the younger nations for the men that could shoot and ride."
Now come, bind up your hair, and leap like fawns; now strike the measured tune which cheers the chorus.
He became suspicious of persons whom he saw his dogs dislike, and liked those whom they fawned on willingly.
The doe gave birth to a most beautiful fawn, which went playing with the herd of the Branch Deer.
As the fawn was harmless: his friendship was ardent: his temper was gentle: his pity was great!
Deer he could call in the fawn season by placing a folded leaf between his lips and sucking vigorously.
"I should be very lonely sometimes if it were not for my dear little fawn," she told Katy once.
I have not turned him out of the house, and then come and fawned upon him when I wanted money.
Her eager young limbs would every moment take her ahead of me, for she was as vigorous as a fawn.
In three days' time he would be leaping and fawning upon his other master, sure of food and kind words.
And here was Phyllis Alden with a dead rabbit swung over one shoulder and a live fawn in her arms!
Perhaps less than a quarter of this herd were older bucks; the rest, younger bucks, does, and fawns.
The fawn turned its head and licked his hand, then gazed at the child with its beautiful eyes.
You are as timid at heart as the fawn trembling in its retreat at the sound of the hunter's horn.
Then gliding towards his chief, he seized the protecting arm again, and patted it, and fawned against it.
In the afternoon came suddenly upon deer; and singling out one of the youngest fawns, tried to run it down.
In the course of the morning Max showed himself shrewd, petty, fawning, arrogant, determined, stupid, vulgar, and cruel.
She cried, as she looked around at the dark faces before her, with eyes like those of the hunted fawn.
Ahead, far in advance, tore one great, brave buck deer, trying to lead his mate and her fawn to safety.
And we should never want for meat, if we could catch a fine fawn from time to time, ma belle.
She expects soon to fawn, and even now the weight of the little one she carries hinders her movements.
Now for a smooth apology, and then a fawning letter to the king of England; and our work's done.
It was his policy to fawn upon all and never permit himself to think that an insult was intended.
In contrast with this the fawn, whose adult life is normally in the plains, takes a long graceful spring.
Evidently a majority of the band were bucks, but there were some does, with foot-long horns, and their fawns.
The adults were able to step across in the swift water, while the fawns swam part of the way.
She rose from her seat as Mistress Anne entered, and welcomed her with a smile, half defiant, half fawning.
He spoke almost fiercely, mindful of his own many hurts, and stared into space as he cradled the fawn.
Suddenly she stopped short in the path, turning her head slightly with the alert motion of a young fawn.
I read my fate in the sorrow that filled my beloved's eyes, as she looked at me like a frightened fawn.
She would want some fawning tailor's model, sweet-scented and delicate, and not a rude man such as I am.
The tyrant, seeing his master's signature upon a document that expressed good will to the American, fawned and apologized.
Thought and poetry died or passed as a heritage to feeble fawning men who also became servants of the new order.
She came one day, accompanied by a half-grown boy, carrying a young fawn she had brought me as a present.
A great many does and young deer (almost fawns) were killed in this county during the hunting season of 1909.
The cat of "The Blue Bird" fawns and flatters, which is something no real cat was ever known to do.
Well, Geraldine shall have my blue silk, and the fawn jacket, and the blouses, and the gray dress.
The other party had not killed anything, although they caught a little fawn, having frightened away the mother.
Did you ever see a man more abject and fawning than Marcus Regulus has been since the death of Domitian?
Jean's eyes were as wide open and brown and frightened as the fawn's and her body trembled just as delicately.
The head and body are covered with long soft hair of a fawn color above and almost pure white beneath.
Those men have got some sugar they want to dispose of to advantage, and so they fawn on the Governor.
"I can only compare him to a fawn," declared the brother; and he "not the only one to notice it!"
Some swing away from the fawning airs of the puppy, but it is toward the repulsive manners of the bear.
He was a big, strong giant of a lover: but he trembled now just like a bit fawn, she thought.
Letters on letters were written, and fawning applications made to all who could influence a vote of any country clergyman.
It was a garment made of fawn skin and designed to be worn with the hair in, next the body.
The fawns were of course well grown, being eight or nine months old, and long out of the spotted coat.
There is an authentic record of the killing of a sturdy, though small, fawn by one of these great birds.
In the Middle Ages a man could devote his whole life to the Crusades, and the public fawned upon him.
They had met with good success in hunting, and brought home a fine half-grown fawn, fat and in good order.
She moved toward him slowly, swaying, as graceful as a fawn, more beautiful than any woman he had ever known.
He was a sneaking, cold-blooded fellow, with his white hair and pale face, and always fawning round the girls.
Sooner or later you will die like the fawn; and the new Adams will be unable to create without new Eves.
Their very existence calls forth our tenderest sympathy, as we should pity a fawn facing its death among wolves.
The dog uttered a low bark when he recognized me, fawned upon me, and then set off running ahead.
Cried the Duchess, starting up like a fawn, and, seizing the Duchess by the shoulders, she melted into tears.
As the shades of night began to gather around them, the others came in with a fawn and a mountain sheep.
It was red and green, with a very long tail, and as tame as any pet fawn I ever read about.
The fawn called loudly when it was first seized, and the mother was not too far away to hear.
Agile as a forest fawn, she slipped through the opening she had made and ran toward the far cabin.
Mountain lions are large fawn-colored animals: that was it: Mountain Billy was suffering from an acute attack of association of ideas.
And there are also wild swine of many colors, as great as oxen in our country, all spotted like young fawns.
There are those that fawn upon him, and feed upon his fortunes, and when he dies he is eaten by parasites.
In one thing these two celebrated authors greatly resembled each other, they both fawned and flattered on the great.
Imagine how glad I am when I see myself, every morning, surrounded by them, humble, fawning, and full of reverence.
She rose very hastily, and fled as lightly as a fawn, the prince following, though he could not overtake her.
All these people were dressed in skins, fawn skins for the most part, though there were occasional garments of leather.
He remarked further that it is mostly bucks, with few does and fawns, that make the passage on Windy Bay.
The young fawns stopped with stiff legs and stared at the speaking arrow with large brown wondering eyes.
She takes the broad terrace steps two at a stride, laughing, breathless, fleet as a fawn, sweet as a rose.
Then they rounded a bend and the next time Bud looked back he could not see the fawn at all.
The fawns are born in winter, and it is necessary that at the time the does should have green food to eat.
She was determined to please; and when Fanny made up her mind, circumstances seemed just to fawn at her feet.
Going to the place Joe found the fawn quite a small one, though it had already lost its spotted coat.
Is that naught, or must I fawn on him, and thank him for good service rendered in wedding Janet Ratcliffe?
It was certainly three times as big as the largest elephant, though slim and graceful of build as a fawn.
She presently emerged, accompanied by a pack of foxes who leaped about her and fawned upon her in evident delight.
In most instances, the fawn has not been abandoned; the visitors simply failed to see the mother in the background.
The fawn was still there, but seemed to be on the point of running away; why, Dave could not tell.
There was a crash beside the path, the bushes parted, and a great, fawn-colored body leaped out into the path.
After the sad end of her two favorites, Ellen would have no more fawns brought in for her to tame.
And the sister wept over her poor lost brother, and the fawn wept also, and stayed sadly beside her.
The fawn or hare has no more free will in that regard than a stone spinning upon itself through orbital space.
When the others notice it, they stop and assume the same pose; it may be observed in does and even fawns.
As soon as the doe saw us she gave her warning call, which usually causes the fawn to run toward her.
The two fawns instantly fly in terror to their mother's side; their tender little limbs are trembling all over.
Her tame fawn had lately taken to joining the wild ones when they came at dawn to feed upon the wheat.
He cast a hungry look at the fawn, as though his mouth watered for a taste, but he offered no interference.
I think, too, he will kill some deer, and who knows, but he may find another fawn to keep Dora company.
And my opinion is that you fawn on the chief to have the longest pull at his bottle of select brandy!
The Red Doe and her mate were so fond of the fawn that they never permitted it out of their sight.