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It is never seen in herds, like the fallow deer, but goes about in pairs, although when there are fawns they accompany their parents.
There he is firm, settled and manly, respectful, but never fawning; he opposes Sir Thomas without petulance, and obeys him without humiliation.
They would look at her tenderly, knowing that she was a wounded fawn, and thus they aggravated the soreness of her wound.
Gold and silver fish, white rabbits, Guinea pigs, squirrels, tortoises, fawns, lambs, and goats, are sometimes sold in seed and flower stores.
They were all exceedingly beautiful, with slender limbs, spreading antlers, velvety dark eyes and smooth coats of fawn color spotted with white.
Thus prepared, he proceeded onward without interruption or adventure until the third day, when he killed a fawn and secured the venison.
The bulldog nearly turned himself inside out trying to wag his short tail, and fawned about his master and the latter's chums.
She declared that nothing had happened; she had been fed and fawned upon, nor been annoyed by any violence or unwelcome attentions.
The fawns have come out from the beeches, because there is more grass on the slope and in the hollow, where trees are few.
Gabriel, a spoiled darling, copied the pictures on the walls, complimented Madame, flattered Monsieur, and fawned on both for trinkets and crowns.
For this he makes up is a servile, fawning attitude towards his master, and a readiness to inflict damage and discomfort on all else.
As all such animals always do with me, he checked, cowered, fawned and then exhibited every symptom of recognition, delight and affection.
Sir George entered the cage, when the creature leaped on his shoulder, licked his face, wagged its tail, and fawned like a dog.
Five or six does and grown fawns broke cover and ran a short distance, stopped, looked at the horsemen, and then capered away.
At last, like a courtier fawning on the royal stick that is laid about his shoulders, he prides himself on the sensitiveness of his conscience.
Shades of brown and fawn are preferable for color, as these best assimilate to the duns and browns of the fields and woods.
Children, like gentle fawns, one by one crept out from the town suburbs and gathered in a smiling, lovable circle round the strangers.
She was dressed in white muslin with a large lace garden hat, and beside her walked her pet dog, a beautiful fawn collie.
The courageous girl rushed from a copse with the rapidity of a fawn, and threw herself resolutely into the midst of the assassins.
The little fawns, which could not have been more than six weeks or two months old, were the embodiment of grace and lightness.
He gave a great jump like a startled fawn, and threw up his arms and stared like one demented into the tree over their heads.
He injected Lionel with a large dose of the serum from the grown animal; he injected himself with the serum from the fawn.
Forgetting that I was a runaway I met him heartily, and the fawn eyes in his bald head beamed their accustomed luster upon me.
The object of the wolves seemed to be to evade the great antlers of the bucks and to capture those very pretty young fawns.
The sight of her explained to me many things which I had read in our poets, of cypress forms, tender fawns, and sugar-eating parrots.
Pale persons should not wear blue or green, and brunettes should not wear light delicate colors, except shades of buff, fawn, or straw color.
It was a companion at least, and it seemed to reciprocate the respect of its creator by fawning upon him and licking his hand.
The mother deer gave a convulsive spring forward, thus warning the poor fawn, which disappeared in the brush like a flash of brown light.
That is more remembrance than some fallen idols get, for the populace is cruel: it is a beast that fawns and slavers, then tears.
Her dark eyes have a sort of fawn-like shyness in their glance, but her manner, though timid, was quite free from embarrassment or restraint.
This time the fawns were fairly gasping for breath, their little spotted sides heaving painfully and their big eyes round with fright.
She read the false and shifting eyes with loathsome shudder, and a hardening of the lip, as if a rat had fawned upon her.
He was sitting on an ottoman near the fountain, with the girls clustered around him, fawning on him like dogs round a loved master.
The creature had just dropped a fawn it had been bringing home, and the bleeding carcass lay unheeded at the edge of the thicket.
He asked, slowing down behind a frightened fawn who was straying on the carriage road and cantering ahead of the car in panicky haste.
A fawn bounded out into the open field and headed for his cabin, attracted by the firelight gleaming through the window and door.
The fawn scrambled after her, slipping and tumbling along, and whining a good deal because his mother kept always moving away from him.
Lithe as a fawn, lovely even though she was dressed in cumbersome garments, Barbara leaped from the wagon and waved excitedly, "Hello, Daddy!"
I noticed that he had a woman's hands when he touched my neck, with his coaxing, fawning ways, the mean, effeminate little hound.
The most servile and fawning individuals, or those who have managed to obtain a little patronage, as a rule, get into the police or gendarmes.
He wore a plum-colored doublet, with dark fawn trunks and hose, and had about him that ease and grace which mark the gentleman.
The does and fawns hung around the corral bottom for some little time, and showed themselves very curious and by no means shy.
The underside, however, is different, as the extremity of the upper wings and the whole of the under wings are of a fawn color.
They fawned upon him for an invitation to sit at his table and buy beer for him in whatever garish cabaret Michael was performing.
When all others had forsaken the fallen prince whom they had fawned upon, it was Acte who tenderly cared for his remains.
Certainly they never would have fawned upon the miserly old fellow, who had the reputation of being mean and tricky as well as miserly.
A sound of approaching footsteps on the marble below startled them, and Inez darted away like a frightened fawn, and flew down the gallery.
He was prepared for anything, from a frightened calf or fawn to a belligerent lion, but he was not prepared for what he saw.
You march up to club him, and he grins and whines and fawns at you in the most ridiculous manner; in fact, he argues with you.
The greater power the throne assumed, the larger amounts were necessarily drawn from the people, to reward fawning courtiers and borough proprietors.
They were long, slim socks made of fur taken from the legs of a spotted reindeer fawn, and they were filled with gold nuggets.
The hunters were kept constantly forward of the party, and in the course of the morning they killed a small fawn and a heron.
Only then was the outer one opened, the soldier liberated the fawn, and after that the whole procession wended its way back.
Its coat is very handsome, being of a yellowish fawn color above and a pure white beneath; everywhere irregularly striped by brown transverse bands.
All at once her fawn-like eyes fell upon the prostrate figure, pale and still, and its toes turned toward the center of the zodiac.
They may be shortly described as fawn above and whitish beneath, becoming deeper with age, and lighter in the females than in the males.
Like a fawn, she sped over them and stopped, unaware of her panting breath, with her eyes on the back door, which was open.
Nothing was so frightful to him as to be fawned on by this grinning ogre, whose few lonesome, blackish teeth seemed ready to devour him.
Marianne's fawn-colored head seemed to imperiously defy from afar the pale woman who stood with her two hands falling at her side as if overwhelmed.
With the lightness of a fawn she released herself from his grip, and gathering her skirts in her hand, moved towards the path.
Some were feeding, others were lying down, fawns were scampering about in play, and young bulls were thrusting at each other with their prong-like horns.
Instantly the fawn thrust out his delicate muzzle and licked the outstretched hand, finding it very palatable with its faint taste of salt.
They face it superbly, as one should face a mob, and the great world, like any proper mob, licks their feet and fawns on them.
Who that has seen a pet fawn coming to be caressed by a fair girl, but must have had his sense of the beautiful gratified?
Considering the length of time that women have been dependent, is it surprising that some of them hug their chains, and fawn like the spaniel?
In the winter it is composed of the skins of deer, and their fawns, and dressed as fine as any chamois leather, in the hair.
Returning to the fawn, which struggled violently on their approach, they soon succeeded in allaying its terror by gentle tones and kind treatment.
For three weeks we were as wild as fawns, until mamma's attention was attracted by my sun-burnt complexion, and my brothers' torn clothes.
Stern in rectitude herself, and iron to the fawning or the dishonest, her influence, whether she was feared or loved, was always for good.
Arising, he greeted the fawning dogs and stretched his cramped body, and then, gathering together bunches of dead sage sticks, he lighted a fire.
When her big brown eyes, wistful and questioning as a fawn's, were reflected in it, there was no room for the sensitive little mouth.
Among the fleeing herd appeared a little fawn-colored beast, utterly unlike any moose calf that the farmer or his man had ever heard of.
We never dare speak our thoughts, for blindness, silence, flattery and fawning seem surer passports to favor than are gallant deeds and honest service.
The widowed Queen also desired to pass the rest of her life with the Good Woman, and the partridge and the fawn did likewise.
When she fawned upon him all her attitudes were winsome, her bright eyes soft, and a gentle play of humor was in her features.
Though on your guard, she flatters and fawns, and coaxes and lectures till you have parted with your secret long before you are aware of it.
The little houses were washed with pink and fawn and cream and their roofs were the color of the underside of an old mushroom.
Having reached his own door, the noble beast fawned upon him, and wagging his tail as if in triumph, ran back into the woods.
The fallow deer browsed undisturbed, gaudy peacocks strutted in the sun, a fawn lifted its shy wild eyes and fled away at their approach.
And this much, at least, of the Grecian work I have learned, that it will never lick vulgar shoes, nor fawn to beastly eyes.
There were some fawning and complacent people who pretended to consider him a great man, the reservoir of learning, the encyclopedic giant of the age.
The sun was shining brightly, and a fawn, which had strayed from the small herd of fallow deer, left off browsing to gaze.
It has been said (I will not interrupt you with authorities) that the fawn belongs to Apollo and Diana because stags are sensitive to music; (are they?).
A young doe and her fawn were playing together in the open meadow below, absolutely unconscious of the nearness of any living thing besides themselves.
And she trotted out into the glade, and circled around it, the tinier fawn close at her heels, till she came to the log again.
In her shy grace she was like a startled fawn, looking her first on man, and ready to bound away at smallest sign of advance.
It might be a secret hope that impelled Mary, for away she bounded, like a young fawn, running to meet the old fisherman at the door.
To her, fawning and whining in such an excess of feeble joy as can be rarely known to dogs or man, came the half-starved, half-drowned creature.
Not far from that group, two statues of bronze that age has turned green represent the obscene figures of a fawn and a nymph.
He should have that, for the king thought it would be sure to be his little dog, which always came frisking and fawning to meet him.
It is only about twenty inches long, including its big bushy tail, and its fur is sometimes pale fawn color, and sometimes creamy white.
I once nourished a little fawn, only a few days old, brought me by an Indian, on cow's milk, and reared it in my own apartment.
The soft fawn color suited her dark type and a sable scarf round her throat left exposed an adorable triangle of creamy white flesh.
The fawns stopped short, to whirl and gaze on their pursuer, while the old ones, never checking their speed, kept bounding away to safety.
At that time the antelope were usually found in herds which the mother did not leave until she was about to give birth to the fawn.
Growling, snarling, whining, barking, snapping and biting, crouching and fawning, constitute a vocabulary descriptive of canine deportment conveying none but repulsive and odious associations.
While he was speaking, Dingo, leaving little Jack, who was romping with him, came and jumped on Benedict, and began to fawn on him.
One of his few titles to respect is that he always met Napoleon upon equal terms, and never condescended to fawn upon him or to flatter him.
He knew his smartness, and was quite willing that bystanders should know it too, for he pawed, and fawned, and barked at a tremendous rate.
People who had fawned upon her in the days of her success now jeered and sneered and affected to doubt the reality of her penitence.