pipes of Pan
Britishplural noun
Example Sentences
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Jacques is an ageless satyr, but instead of tootling the pipes of Pan in some mythic glade, he rummages in London garbage cans and beds down on park benches.
From Time Magazine Archive
This delicacy carried over from female figures into slender statuary of male musicians playing harps and the syrinx, or pipes of Pan.
From Time Magazine Archive
In Pocock pipes of Pan playing tunes of innocence drown out the ravings of a street-corner Jeremiah.
From Time Magazine Archive
But last week, when the pink pipes of Pan sounded for the Seventh Youth Festival in neutral Vienna's vast Prater fairgrounds, there was trouble, trouble everywhere.
From Time Magazine Archive
Dear God, man, have you read of the pipes of Pan?
From The Night Horseman by Brand, Max
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