silvan
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Here is tranquillity and silvan shade; For now, emerging from that waste of sand Which was my life, I reach a fruitful glade, A pool of water in a thirsty land.
From Mice & Other Poems by Bullett, Gerald
This tyrant of the Scottish throne, 630 So faithless, and so ruthless known, Now hither comes; his end the same, The same pretext of silvan game.
From Lady of the Lake by Moody, William Vaughn
On each side of the high mantelpiece stood two antique chairs of oak, solid as silvan thrones, and in one of these sat a lady.
From Shirley by Brontë, Charlotte
Tiger, and elephant, and deer, Bull, lion, buffalo, in fear, Soon as thy matchless form they see, With every silvan beast will flee.
From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Griffith, Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin)
Issuing once more into the warm sunshine, they traversed a long and beautiful silvan glade, skirted by ancient oaks, with mighty arms and gnarled limbs—the patriarchs of the forest.
From The Lancashire Witches A Romance of Pendle Forest by Ainsworth, William Harrison
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