What is "sylvan"

Usage examples of "sylvan".

They passed through colonnades of dark electrum, where silver branches dipped, picked out with mercurial leaves, along fructuous avenues arched over with trees of solid gold and then through sylvan palaces upheld with pillars of diamond and emerald, coronaled with flickering lights.

Enough to bore a Wild One to desperation, to make him think twice of the simple delights of a lif e spent as a sylvan god.

The Badree Nym came in all colors, shapes and sizes, but, as the pariahs of the sylvan peoples, would never be found at the monastery.

Everything has a quiet but wildish pastoral and sylvan look, and the bleating of sheep fills the hollow of the hills.

This little hedgerow and sylvan plant has a root which is very astringent, so that when held in the mouth it will stay any flow of blood from the nostrils.

But the sylvan deities were less implacable, and the extirpation of a more valuable tree was compensated by the moderate fine of twenty-five pounds of copper.

Listening to it, I could see my mother sitting on a Trailways bus, riding out of Sylvan, while my four-year-old self napped on the bed, not yet knowing what I would wake to.

Sylvan go, now that he had found him, but he triggered the block and turned over control to Gregory without comment, forcing himself not to think about Healers at all as he watched Gregory rouse Sylvan and take him out.

The atmosphere of the opera is that which pervades the sylvan life of Germany--its actualities and its mysteries, the two elements having equal potency.

The last day was spent in sylvan pleasure at Vincennes, where at the edge of the noble forest on the bank of the river the King had built his favorite country manor, called Beaute-sur-Marne.

There was a simple interior at one place,--a small shanty, showing through the open door a cook stove surmounted by the evening coffee-pot, with a lazy cat outstretched upon the floor in the middle distance, and an old woman standing just outside the threshold to see the train go by,--which had an unrivaled value till they came to a superannuated car on a siding in the woods, in which the railroad workmen boarded--some were lounging on the platform and at the open windows, while others were "washing up" for supper, and the whole scene was full of holiday ease and sylvan comradery that went to the hearts of the sympathetic spectators.

I was quite happy striding in the amber light and soft, long shadows, among the ferns, the copsewood, and the grand old clumps of timber, exploring the undulations, and the wild nooks and hollows which have each their circumscribed and sylvan charm.

She had gathered a huge bouquet of poppies, marguerites and blue lupin - Nature's tribute to the national colours - and as she wandered through the sylvan glades she looked like some quaint dweller of the woods - a sprite, mayhap - with old mother Petronelle trotting behind her, like an attendant withc.

Ryan and Krysty were lying together in the shade of a feathery blue spruce, watching the sylvan scene.

Sylvan held the talisman bubble over the fire so that it was warmed by the rising heat, but the flames did not touch.