As we stared at the main deck, deserted save for the dead cowboy on his back and for the Faun who still sat on the hatch and coughed, an eruption of men occurred over the for'ard edge of the 'midship-house.
The group was in wonderful preservation: the figure of Bacchus intact, that of the youngfaun lacking only the arm, which had evidently been freely extended.
Between them a small dancing faun in greenish bronze tripped a Bacchic measure with head thrown back in a transport of derisive laughter.
For a long moment the three of us faced the silent, disordered room, in which the little bronze faun alone seemed alive, convulsed with diabolical mirth at our entrance.
It is true he eats garlic, but then he can stand like a faun and couch like a leopard, so he is forgiven.
From the mean squalor of the sordid life that limits him, the dreamer or the idyllist may soar on poesy's viewless wings, may traverse with fawn-skin and spear the moonlit heights of Cithaeron though Faun and Bassarid dance there no more.
And nearer, you could also see a cloven-hoofed faun who had surprised her thus.
And the whole story of the nymph and herfaun lover, from his first peep at her to his triumph among the flowers, seemed to burst into warm life.
I have wondered whether the Faun would have sprung with such untainted jollity into the sorrows of to-day if Mr. Browning had not leaped so blithely before my father's eyes.
The kinglet's song has a cadence unlike any other, reminding one of water murmuring underground, and for some reason a classic suggestion, as of faun and satyr.
Had faun and satyr thus carved upon the forest trees the name of some fair Rosalind among the nymphs, they could not have wrought in more fitting and altogether sylvan characters.
These odorous pine-needles are the magic carpet which gently conveys one into the sylvan world of faunand nymph.
He was the faunto the curling locks and the pointed ears, with not a trace of the satyr; all youth and grace and radiance.
He would have chased the faun into seclusion until he could clothe him in English trousers, and would have rendered the Venus of Milo into bits.
The women in faun skins will enter in a moment, swinging the thyrsus and beating the cymbals.
If any familiar had failed to detect Lance Harriott in this hideous masquerade of dust and grime and tatters, still less would any passing stranger have recognized in this blonde faun the possible outcast and murderer.
But for the rifle he carried and some modern peculiarities of dress, he was of a grace so unusual and unconventional that he might have passed for a faun who was quitting his ancestral home.
Her eyes waver to him again, and the FAUN vanishes.
The FAUN darts his head towards where, from Right, comes slowly the figure of a Greek youth, holding a lute or lyre which his fingers strike, lifting out little wandering strains as of wind whinnying in funnels and odd corners.
The civilized being still hides thefaun and the dryad within its broadcloth and its silk.
The FAUN darts down behind the stone, and the youth stands by the boulder playing his lute.
I dreamed I saw a-faun on that boulder blowing on a pipe.
The use of the Faun in literature is best known in Hawthorne's "The Marble Faun.
I am a Faun again, Part of the myths that I pursue in vain.
The faun is a natural and delightful link betwixt human and brute life, with something of a divine character intermingled.
We afterwards went into the sculpture-gallery, where I looked at the Faunof Praxiteles, and was sensible of a peculiar charm in it; a sylvan beauty and homeliness, friendly and wild at once.
I tell you," he went on, setting down the faun hard on the mantel, "love is like the spirit which the Arabian fisherman let out of the shell.
Flint rose and stood by the mantel, toying absently with a bronze model of the Praxiteles Faun which rested on its shelf.
With Alice and the Faun we forget names, so let us follow her method when in doubt, and exclaim: "Here then!
Mallarme set him to cryptic harmonies, and placed him in a dim rich forest (though he called him a faun; a faun in retorsion).
She listened to it and to the very words he said, as she would have listened to a faun playing on his pipe, half bewitched by it, half tricked to laughter and to joy that was scarcely of this world.
In a long silence, Liddiard turned and watched them, faun and dryad once more, spirits of that sunshine and those deep green shades of the trees.
She peered down the field through the trunks of the pollarded willows and saw a dryad dancing before a faun sitting cross-legged in the grass.
A Faun on the Cotswolds' had no more eager eulogist than the author of 'Ariel in Mayfair.
I said something about doing my best, and asked with animation whether she had read "A Faun on the Cotswolds.
And then I heard myself asking mechanically whether she had read "A Faun on the Cotswolds.
Maltby gave signs of genuine, though not deep, emotion, and cited two or three of the finest passages from 'A Faun on the Cotswolds.
But after we reached London the subject of the English copyright of The Marble Faun came up for discussion.
The only approach to sea-side cliffs that we saw was at Whitby, on the Yorkshire coast, where the abbey of St. Hilda stood, after whom the American maiden in The Marble Faun was named.
The Faun has no principle, nor could comprehend it, yet is true and honest by virtue of his simplicity; very capable, too, of affection.
That my father's eyes were, however, already awake to the literary and moral possibilities of the Faun is shown by his further observations, which are much the same as those which appear in the book.
Anon, the springs of creative imagination, long dormant in him, were roused to activity by thoughts connected with the Faun of Praxiteles in the Capitol.
The scaffolding upon which are hung the splendid draperies of The Marble Faun is, again, of the simplest formation, though the nature of the materials is unfamiliar.
Take your Marble Faun and turn to two of the latter chapters and compare them with the corresponding pages in my excerpts from the journals in the Biography.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "faun" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: deity; faun; goddess
