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Meanings of sylvan in English

Relating to or characteristic of wooded regions.

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        Examples for "silvan"
        Examples for "silvan"
        1
        Within this silvan palace the most important personages present were invited to hold high festival.
        The Fair Maid of Perth; Or, St. Valentine's Day
        2
        Our old silvan tapestries, similarly, are of that age.
        Appreciations, with an Essay on Style
        3
        Whom I detect beside the silvan path
        Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, 1920-10-06
        4
        Formosam resonare doces Amaryllida silvan.
        Father and Son: A Study of Two Temperaments
        5
        He's an African type, name of Ambar. Silvan smiled at the memory.
        The Neutronium Alchemist
        Usage of sylvan in English
        1
        No sylvan dell in Arcady could have been lovelier than the spot.
        A Knight of the Cumberland
        2
        Half an hour later I was still strolling in the sylvan peace.
        Autobiography of a Yogi
        3
        Pan and the ministers of Pan do not marry, the sylvan gods.
        Twilight in Italy
        4
        Wide plains, and the most sylvan and picturesque hills bound the view.
        Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian ...
        5
        There is sufficient sylvan scenery for beauty in a land of mountains.
        Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2
        6
        After such sylvan entertainment Smith and his men returned to the boat.
        Pioneers of the Old South: A Chronicle of English Colonial Begin...
        7
        The most agreeable way of seeing this sylvan country is on horseback.
        Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume ...
        8
        He lived more intensely than any other member of the sylvan household.
        The Cursed Patois / From "Mackinac And Lake Stories", 1899
        9
        They were skimming along those green-shaded drives that are so sophisticatedly sylvan.
        Fanny Herself
        10
        We accordingly sallied forth one morning on horseback on this sylvan expedition.
        Abbotsford and Newstead Abbey
        11
        Why could he not have lived and died in that sylvan paradise?
        Henrietta Temple: A Love Story
        12
        Within, female taste had veiled every rudeness-availeditself of every sylvan grace.
        Summer on the Lakes, in 1843
        13
        But the sylvan god continued in the doggerel of his predecessor-
        Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1
        14
        The darkness of natural as well as of sylvan dusk gathered over me.
        Jane Eyre: An Autobiography
        15
        The palms surpass in number and variety all their sylvan brethren.
        The Western World / Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural H...
        16
        For nearly two miles the carriage drive wound upward through this sylvan solitude.
        The California Birthday Book / Prose and Poetical Selections fro...
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