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1. In the chair, Morton Eidenberg sat wearing a fawn tweed suit jacket, the requisite patches on the elbows: the Oxford don look he’d cultivated from those years teaching idealistic students such as herself
2. fawn roll-neck top, and a long dark cardigan that reached the floor and flowed behind her when
3. If you fawn over the
4. The first thing he saw when he entered the village was the old woman Spotted Fawn, stirring up the ashes of the fire in front of her place; and voices from a couple of nearby tents informed him that the world was indeed waking up to a new dawn
5. Pretty soon out of the forest and into the clearing where we were sitting about forty yards from us, a doe and her fawn appeared
6. But then I saw the fawn
7. If once, by some strange miracle, he fell to us, then his voice would become nothing but a whisper, and his wild stallion only the young fawn you see in the woodlands in spring
8. Now she comes by each morning and in the evenings, accompanied by her newborn fawn as well as her second baby, which is now a small buck
9. Shame led me to pay three times what it would have cost in London for perfectly fitting fawn slacks that could be washed and dried overnight, a cream drip-dry shirt with a modestly embroidered Russian collar, and a pair of tan loafers in woven Spanish leather – airy and not requiring socks
10. They fawn on the small framed gangly body, blond hair long like most of theirs wet with water and sweat
11. He was more white than I was, not the fawn colored skin like my ruddy father
12. In the near future, please look for the sequel to Blood, Dreams, and Olive Drab to be entitled A Fawn In Winter
13. “No, no, no, wait, I have to tell you, my beloved is Red Fawn, the fourth priestess of the Sisters of the Moon
14. The shock hit everyone at the same time, a Sister of the Moon was married to the temple, inviolate, had Coatl lost his senses, our problems seemed trivial compared to Coatl’s, how had he kept it secret for so long, how had Red Fawn carried on an affair without discovery, it is common knowledge that fortune has never been known to favour stupid people,
15. It was late afternoon when a messenger from Gled told me to hurry home, Jodas accompanied me and we soon arrived at mothers bed, she looked both weak and frail, but sensibly she was being treated by a medical man, quite different from the medicine men, whom mother said were all charlatans with their rattles and mumbo jumbo, she was having some difficulty with headaches, a constant cough, and bouts of dizziness, Mocal said it came on quite sudden and when the cough started she’d insisted on mother being confined to bed, it was a fright seeing mother so helpless, I didn’t say anything I just sat and held her hand as she lay exhausted, she slept fitfully on and off throughout the night, Gled and Jodas also sat at the bedside with me, Gled fussed constantly with the bed clothes until Jodas stopped her, so she went to the kitchen and organized regular refreshments throughout the night, Coatl seemed quite preoccupied, he came and went at least ten times during the night each time he came to mothers room he seemed more agitated, not being able to stand by and see him in such turmoil I followed him out and asked what the trouble was, he said that he had been trying to contact Red Fawn to let her know why they couldn’t be together for a while but she hadn’t answered any of his messages, with all the drama and tension of mother’s illness I’m afraid I ran out of patience with his illegal love affair
16. The danger that kept Jodas from a restful sleep also saved his life, sitting with his son in the nursery room he saw a shadow flit past the window opening, someone was on the roof, quietly leaving the child he went to Bunda’s quarters two rooms down the passageway, Bunda was fully dressed standing by the window in the dark, he turned, held up two fingers and pointed up towards the roof, they silently left the room moving towards the inside stairs recruiting four guards along the way, at the top of the stairs Jodas very slowly withdrew the bolts and they concealed themselves either side of the door, after what seemed an eternity the door slowly, ever so slowly, began to open, a foot then a head and finally the body came through the door, the second assassin following, both killers were dressed from head to toe in black clothes, when they were three steps past the door Jodas sprang the trap, after a violent struggle they were soon overwhelmed, stripped, bound and dragged, not too gently, down the stairs, the noise had brought more guards running and Jodas ordered a complete room by room search in case there were more killers lurking in the palace, the noise had woken everyone and Gled came down the passage carrying the baby, one of the assassins seeing her spat towards her and screamed that she’d get the same treatment as that whore Red Fawn, one of the guards hit him on the side of the head with the flat of his sword and he keeled over unconscious, Gled carried off this verbal attack with a nonchalance that gained great respect from everyone present, she then asked if anyone had been hurt, getting an answer in the negative she said goodnight and walked away as regal as any goddess
17. I then told him of the assassination attempt on Jodas and Gled, he immediately showed concern obviously reading bad news on my face, I could not keep this up any longer and I blurted out about the prisoners confession and what they had said about Red Fawn, he stared at me for a moment then his face crumbled, his head went down on the table and his whole body shook, a cry like a badly wounded mountain bear escaped from his lungs and was heard all over the compound, fortunately, on my way in I had told the captain of the guards to be prepared to leave, Coatl’s face was like thunder as he got up from the table and calmly said that he would like to talk to the prisoners
18. At the mention of Quetzalcoatl the colour drained from Tezcat’s face and a moan escaped from the other guests leading me to suppose that these self-same guests had also been invited to the execution party, we tied the priests hands and placed a hood over their heads then led them out, I explained to Coatl which priests we were taking back to his compound and told him my feelings about the other guests, I followed him into the palace, as we entered the hall the remaining guests dropped to their knee’s and bowed their heads, in a loud voice he ordered all the women from the room, walking from one to another he questioned the remaining men about the execution of Red Fawn, he learnt that apparently her liaison with Quetzalcoatl had became known to Tezcat quite early in the affair but he had kept the knowledge secret until he could use it to his advantage, after the legislation to curtail the priesthood’s power he decided to demonstrate to the conquerors just how much power he had by ordering the death of Quetzalcoatl’s lover
19. From information received Coatl learnt that one of the priestesses, a favourite of Tezcat, had been instrumental in the torture of Red Fawn, she had blinded her by thrusting needles, made from the heart of the cactus, into both eyes and laughed when Red Fawn shook her head from side to side trying to shake loose the needles that had not even been pulled out, when brought to the compound by Bunda she took one look at her colleagues and screamed, loud and long before fainting and falling to the floor, two soldiers took a leg each and dragging her behind them, they followed Coatl to his palace, she hasn’t been seen since then, and speculation, as to her punishment was flying around the barracks
20. Mother was getting stronger every day, she had no shortage of visitors and although she was still confined to her room she knew everything that went on outside her bedroom, I had always been aware of her appreciation of a bit of juicy gossip, but her knowledge even amazed me, apparently Coatl visited quite often and mother knew all about Red Fawn and Coatl’s vengeance, she said she whole heartedly approved of his actions, in one fell swoop he had swept away all opposition to the new rulers of Teotihuacan and had also sent a message, that anyone who thought to test the new leaders would receive a similar end to any challenge, by showing again her devious political streak I knew she was definitely on the mend and was rapidly getting back to her old self
21. Red Fawn priestess of the moon
22. pick a fawn out of the darkness
23. would have been like beating a fawn
24. a dog licking his master’s hand); to fawn or crouch to, that is, (literally
25. Brooke said it was like the spots on a fawn
26. in Pugilist tended to ingratiate themselves on others, to fawn or to follow a trend easily, who would care to separate the black from the white? Of course, they would all believe in the upright hero of that Gentleman Swordsman and who would
27. Like a mother deer and her fawn who feed here, my ears can already tell what tree or bush each bird calls from, can catch the tiny splash a diving duck makes and can blend it all into a beautiful harmony of peace and safety
28. It was refreshing to come across someone who was considerate and charming but did not fawn all over them
29. He thought his putter was as cute as a fawn
30. He came closer, thrusting his hands deep into the pockets of the fawn jacket he was wearing, and Brigit held up four fingers and pointed ahead of her
31. Petra scowled, watching Garret fawn over Anne
32. He had dressed in a brown corduroy slacks and brown T-shirt over which he wore a fawn windcheater
33. History books fawn upon this… and admire it
34. So what does this say of Jewish cultures, and human cultures? Was the backlash of WW1 and WW2 a reaction to babies and children being loved too well? Were the 1930’s Germans and Jews Really humane towards their young? Germans did not fawn on their children as much as the Jews did? Kindergarten: is a German/Jewish invention
35. There he was – filling the screen now, grinning out into the cinema – with his dark hair and glasses, the black jacket and the green and orange tee-shirt, and the embarrassing fawn slip-ons
36. She left the new mom and her devoted husband then to fawn over their new babies
37. He wore a charming summer jacket of a fawn shade, light thin trousers, a waistcoat of the same, new and fine linen, a cravat of the lightest cambric with pink stripes on it, and the best of it was, this all suited Pyotr Petrovitch
38. There were spaces full of heather in flower, and plots of violets alternated with the confused patches of the trees that were grey, fawn, or golden coloured, according to the nature of their leaves
39. And among the oaks the bluebells stood in pools of azure, under the new green hazels, upon a pale fawn floor of oak-leaves
40. Even the flowers, you have to fawn on them---"
41. Oliver North and his secretary, Fawn Hall, have destroyed hundreds of documents connected to the so-called Iran-Contra scandal
42. Notwithstanding the swiftness of their flight, one of the Indians had found an opportunity to strike a straggling fawn with an arrow, and had borne the more preferable fragments of the victim, patiently on his shoulders, to the stopping place
43. He, too, has modified himself into something elegantly human, with fawn leather pants and dark boots, a creamy cashmere sweater, a gold torque at his throat
44. These `charitable' people went into the wretched homes of the poor and - in effect - said: `Abandon every particle of self- respect: cringe and fawn: come to church: bow down and grovel to us, and in return we'll give you a ticket that you can take to a certain shop and exchange for a shillingsworth of groceries
45. THE HONOURABLE MRS MERVYN TALBOYS: (In amazon costume, hard hat, jackboots cockspurred, vermilion waistcoat, fawn musketeer gauntlets with braided drums, long train held up and hunting crop with which she strikes her welt constantly) Also me
46. She was wearing a fashionable fawn jumper and neatly pressed black trousers
47. The Wilkes butler, Tom, was hurrying through the halls, a silver tray in his hands, bowing and grinning, as he offered tall glasses to young men in fawn and gray trousers and fine ruffled linen shirts
48. Scarlett thought she had never seen such elegant pants as he wore, fawn colored, shepherd’s plaid, and checked
49. jacket of a fawn shade, light thin trousers, a waistcoat of the same, new and fine linen, a cravat of the lightest cambric with pink stripes on it, and the best of it was, this all suited Pyotr Petrovitch
50. My contrarian impulses were heightened by the fact that I’d just watched a bunch of scientists here at Emory University fawn all over the Dalai Lama