A small genre picture was conceived in a more jesting tone, representing a sleeping Cyclops, and a satyr measuring the length of the giant's thumb with a thyrsos, thus adding a living scale of comparative dimensions.
On the left is a medallion of a satyr and nymph; the opposite medallion is destroyed.
A fragment of a marble frieze shows a satyrwith a thyrsos and laurel crown performing a wild Bacchic dance between two soldiers, also executing a dancing movement; it most likely illustrates the Pyrrhic dance of a later epoch.
A satyr lifts her vest, while Silenus and other figures look on in admiration.
The antique cradle consisted of a flat swing of basket work, such as appears in a terra-cotta relief in the British Museum, of the infant Bacchus being carried by a satyr brandishing a thyrsus, and a torch-bearing bacchante.
The fountain sang and sang But thesatyr never stirred-- Only the great white moon In the empty heaven heard.
Were the topaz gates of the sunset still ajar to a new infinite life; or did satyr faces haunt the shadows of the trail, satyr faces of the Greed that had plotted the bloody villainy of the Rim Rocks?
It had been a lane of delight; and that was what all life might be but for the Satyr shadows lurking along the trail.
The Fountain All through the deep blue night The fountain sang alone; It sang to the drowsy heart Of the satyr carved in stone.
The fountain sang and sang, But the satyr never stirred-- Only the great white moon In the empty heaven heard.
The miscellany-satyr and the faun And all th' adulteries of twisted nature But faintly represent this riddling feature; Whose members being not tallies, they'll not own Their fellows at the Resurrection.
The satyr serves as a link between the myth of the ass and that of the goat.
Zeus he-goat and the satyr Pan; Herakles the rival of a goat; the old powerless man called a he-goat.
In fact the satyrstands between Gilgamish and Ishara(?
In these dreams which he has told to his mother he receives premonition concerning the advent of the satyr Enkidu, destined to join with him in the conquest of Elam.
The satyr who received a peasant into his hut should not have turned him out on seeing that he blew his fingers because he was cold; and afterwards, on taking the dish between his teeth, that he blew his pottage because it was hot.
This corresponds with the characteristic type of the satyr in classic statues as in later paintings; his lips are always thick and everted.
That lean old satyr had fallen gravely into error in the conviction that he had fooled Gorlois's men so cleverly over the wine-pot.
The lean look of him, his little green eyes, his thin goat-like beard, reminded her much of the picture of some old Satyr she had seen in the frescoes on the walls of the triclinium at Winchester.
Nearer still, the leather-jerkined, fur-breeched figure of the man bent like a baffled satyrbaulked of evil.
The mocking face of fate leered at her like a satyr out of the shadows, yet with the joy of the moment she put the thoughts aside and lived on the man's lips and the great love that brimmed for her in his eyes.
The Red Satyris found in Texas, Arizona, Mexico, and Central America.
This creature seems to be the very satyrof the ancients, written of by Pliny and others, and is said to set upon women in the woods, and sometimes upon armed men.
The laughing nymph looks as if bent on making the grimsatyr give way to mirth," said Vaura.
Elf, nymph, naiad, satyr and dryad abandoned themselves to the spell of Apollo's music.
He seemed to partake of those obscure forces of nature which the Greeks personified in shapes part human and part beast, the satyr and the faun.
Did he dream of the nymph flying through the woods of Greece with the satyr in hot pursuit?
The satyr in him suddenly took possession, and he was powerless in the grip of an instinct which had all the strength of the primitive forces of nature.
I wanted to know what he was getting at myself, and so off I ran home and got out my own Bible, and there it was: 'the satyrshall cry to his fellow.
A well is shown at the present day near which Alexander saw the satyr in his dream.
An aged satyr sought Around my Muse to pass, Attempting to pay court, And eyed her fondly through his glass.
For him thesatyr capered and the coy nymph came bridling from her retreat, the woods became choral and the streams danced in the sunlight to the magic of his pipe.
Had she seen a suggestion of the satyr in the expression of that lovely face before her?
The Man and the Satyr A MAN and a Satyr once drank together in token of a bond of alliance being formed between them.
When the Satyr again inquired the reason, he said that he did it to cool the meat, which was too hot.
When the Satyr asked the reason for this, he told him that he did it to warm his hands because they were so cold.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "satyr" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
