The does and their sleek, dappled fawns prick their ears and peer out from the thickets, And the bison-calves play on the lawns, and gambol like colts in the clover.
Two fawns and their mother lay dead at the foot of a cliff.
If the sex ratio of fawns began even, and more females than males were killed by wolves, then a higher proportion of males would be left in the adult population, unless some other mortality factor kills more male fawns.
Nevertheless, there may be a bias against fawns in our method.
The average deer (considering both fawns and adults) from the Superior National Forest during winter weighs about 113 pounds (calculated from Erickson et al.
Note: incisor-sectioning is unnecessary for fawns and yearlings because animals of these ages can be aged objectively by the progress of tooth replacement.
In regard to the first possibility, there was limited evidence that during February and March 1969 some fawns and yearlings in our study area were losing their fat stores.
The discovery that 13 percent of the fawns and 84 percent of the yearlings killed during January, February, and March had not yet shed their deciduous incisors and premolars, respectively, also fits well with the rest of our information.
Because fawns often are only about half the size of adult deer, and their skeletons have not yet completely ossified, the chances are better that fawns will be more completely eaten.
As far as show winners are concerned, and I have had scores of the breed before me, I am inclined to think brindles, blacks and fawns have been the most often the winning colours.
Of course the brindles, reds, and fawns run into different shades of each, but I think the foregoing contain nearly all the colours allowed by the Bull Dog Clubs.
These remarks apply to the custom of nebrismus, or tearing fawns to pieces and dancing about draped in the fawn-skins.
The oldest doe gave birth to twofawns which actually survived.
During fully one-half the year the doe is burdened by the cares of motherhood, and the paramount duty of saving her fawns from their numerous enemies.
It is the rule that kids, fawns and lambs must lie low and keep still, to avoid attracting deadly enemies.
Again it scurried through the group in a most tantalizing manner, which soon provoked the fawns to chase the fox anew.
It is a common thing for fawns and calves of various kinds to butt their mothers, just for fun.
At last the fawns gave up the chase, returned to their original position, and came to parade rest.
When the redroot (Ceanothus americanus) puts forth its leaves the people say the young fawns are then in the mountains.
As they said, about noon he found two fawns just killed.
Here he had learned the arts of his own people, and passed the winters by, until alone he could chase the fawnsor climb the mountain-peak, and gather trophies with which to ornament his neck or fill his quiver.
The little ones received the touch of rough fingers on dimpled chin, and turned like frightened fawns away to listen to the tinkling of the little bells above their heads.
It is for these last-named heroic acts that they are now enjoying the boon for which you have pleaded all your life, from the same Government that pets them, and almost fawns upon them as heroes.
I slung lead after them at a lively rate, firing five or six shots before they got out of sight, but did no further harm than to accidentally clip an ear off one of the fawns close down to its head.
A doe and fawn went in another direction, threefawns in another, two does and a buck in another, and so on ad infinitum.
The does and their little spotted fawns were sleeping too; the blacktail deer had not yet sought the feeding grounds on the ridges.
With what reverence he crouches at his feet, with what reverence he looks up to him, with what delight he fawns upon him, and with what cheerful alacrity he obeys him!
In March the big buck shed his antlers, leaving them lying upon the snow where the fawnssniffed curiously at them.
The doe and fawns would have fared ill had not the buck helped them by bending down the higher branches which only he could reach.
Soon afterward the doe, too, disappeared, leaving the fawns to shift for themselves.
Everybody who knew the Fawns knew that Augusta Fawn was not clever, and that she would occasionally say the very thing that ought not to be said.
The Lord Fawns and the Frank Greystocks of the world would be less likely to covet Lizzie, should she, by any little indiscretion, have placed herself under a temporary cloud.
There could be no future Lord Fawns unless he married;--and how could he marry without money?
The Fawns lived at Fawn Court all the year round, and consequently Lady Fawn thought that air was to be found in England sufficiently good for all purposes of vitality and recreation.
Among all these Fawns there was as little selfishness as can be found,--even among women.
This, however, dearest, need ruffle no feather between you and me, who love each other better than we love either the Fawns or the Lizzies.
The youngest Fawn girl was not yet fifteen, and it was understood that Lucy was to remain with the Fawns for some quite indefinite time to come.
She would simply beg of all the Fawns that no allusion might be made to him in her presence.
All the Fawns had spoken of him, in Lucy's absence, in the hardest terms of reproach, and declared that he was not fit to be spoken to by any decent person.
Showing What the Miss Fawns Said, and What Mrs. Hittaway Thought X.
When the fawnsare perhaps a month old a small party, say a young man and his wife, sometimes makes a short journey to the eastward to procure fawn skins for clothing.
They say that the fawns at this age can be caught by running them down.
But, although well moccasined, I moved slowly along, attracted by the brilliancy of the flowers, and the gambols of the fawns around their dams, to all appearance as thoughtless of danger as I felt myself.
The animal is very poor and evidently has fawns in the woods.
It proved to be a doe with very large milk-bags, and doubtless her fawn or fawns were in the vicinity; but Alexis could not find them in the dense bush.
In these vast forests, also, were to be found (if anywhere to be found) those mysterious fawns that tempted solitary hunters into visionary and perilous pursuits.
A young maiden will laugh as a tender flower will blow--ay, and a lad will like her the better for it; just as the same blithe Spring that makes the young birds whistle, bids the blithe fawns skip.
Its enclosure was now broken down in many places, and the hinds with their fawns fed free and unstartled up to the very windows of the silvan palace.
The fawnsof this species are of a uniform pale yellowish-brown.
Returning again next night, they had watched until the doe and her fawns came along and dropped into the pit; and then, without dreaming of any change in the circumstances of the case, the wolves had leaped in after.
We had seen the fawns once or twice following their mothers; but we had failed in coming up with them, although we had made several hunting excursions for that purpose.
Mary was now brought back; and Cudjo, descending into the pit, secured the doe and fawns which were soon hoisted up, and put into the cart.
Harry and I, however, did not contemplate the adoption of this plan--as we knew that the fawns would be a long time in growing up, and we wanted an old doe or two at once.
In this state we had actually found them--cowering and crouching, and more scared-like than the fawns themselves.
But the most curious circumstance connected with this affair was, why these wolves had left the doe and her fawns unmolested.
In these vast forests, also, were to be found (if the race was not extinct) those mysterious fawns that tempted solitary hunters into visionary and perilous pursuits.
The killing of does and fawns should be stopped, and no deer should be killed save bucks with horns at least three inches long.
This refers to the men who live in the haunts of big game, where wardens are the most of the time totally absent, and where bucks, does and fawns of hoofed big game may be killed in season and out of season, with impunity.
I think I will get mother to bathe it for me;" and off rushed the noisy boy, leaving Fritz and me to see to the fawns and examine the rabbits.
In regard to the other deer at Pilawin, it will suffice to state that two Dybowski fawns were born during the present year.
It seems difficult to account for this difference, unless it be that fawns of the year assume the winter dress very early or develop it at once.
Returning to the Pilawin deer, the next to be noticed are the American wapiti, which are flourishing fully as well as the elk; the number of fawns born during the year being nine.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fawns" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
