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...those qualities essential to the portrait painter. His picture of the Polish guide is unforgettable. "He was a strange wild creature, tall, stalwart, and handsome, with bold features, dark hair hanging in long locks round his cheeks and an expression in his eyes like that of a startled fawn. Not that I can remember ever to have seen a startled fawn: however, his expression, was just that which the startled fawn is supposed to wear...

Author: By H. V. P., | Title: THE CRIMSON BOOKSHELF | 6/15/1923 | See Source »

...York where a concert will be given at the Yale Club in the latter part of February. Later a joint concert will be held with the Smith Glee Club at Northampton, and concerts will be held in one or two cities near New Haven. The annual Fawn Club concert will close the season as usual in March...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YALE BASEBALL SCHEDULE ANNOUNCED--QUESTION OF TRAINING CORPS UNDECIDED--SHEFF'S FUNDS TOO SMALL | 12/20/1916 | See Source »

...verse, too, thinks hard. Even "The Fawn" forgets to be a child in reason, and prettily woos his "nymph" (who, by the way, as an oak-dweller ought to have been a "dryad") with pantheistic appeal. The rude Scythian shepherd of Marlowe, brooding upon the unattainable, has grown "very weary" of his life,' and meditates upon the theme of vanity with the unction of a Stephen Phillips. And his rough soldiers as they march, sing with Shellevan opulence of fancy...

Author: By J. B. Fletcher., | Title: The Harvard Monthly for April. | 4/4/1904 | See Source »

FOUND.- A fawn-colored female pup, in entry of Hastings. Owner will please apply to C. W. S., 12 Oxford...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Special Notice. | 12/22/1893 | See Source »

FOUND.- A fawn-colored female pup, in entry of Hastings. Owner will please apply to C. W. S., 12 Oxford...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Special Notice. | 12/21/1893 | See Source »

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