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    But the Elves of this land were of a race strange to us of the silvan folk, and the trees and the grass do not now remember them: Only I hear the stones lament them: deep they delved us, fair they wrought us, high they builded us; but they are gone.†  (source)
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    Silvan Tomkins, maybe the greatest mind reader of them all, was compulsive about practicing.†  (source)
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    And, between two yeomen, was brought before the silvan throne of the outlaw Chief, our old friend, Prior Aymer of Jorvaulx.†  (source)
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    Of this stream the Silvan Elves made many songs long ago, and still we sing them in the North, remembering the rainbow on its falls, and the golden flowers that floated in its foam.†  (source)
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    As flames among the lofty woods are thrown On diff'rent sides, and both by winds are blown; The laurels crackle in the sputt'ring fire; The frighted sylvans from their shades retire: Or as two neighb'ring torrents fall from high; Rapid they run; the foamy waters fry; They roll to sea with unresisted force, And down the rocks precipitate their course: Not with less rage the rival heroes take Their diff'rent ways, nor less destruction make.†  (source)
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    Much of our understanding of mind reading comes from two remarkable scientists, a teacher and his pupil: Silvan Tomkins and Paul Ekman.†  (source)
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    Hundreds of broad-headed, short-stemmed, wide-branched oaks, which had witnessed perhaps the stately march of the Roman soldiery, flung their gnarled arms over a thick carpet of the most delicious green sward; in some places they were intermingled with beeches, hollies, and copsewood of various descriptions, so closely as totally to intercept the level beams of the sinking sun; in others they receded from each other, forming those long sweeping vistas, in the intricacy of which the eye delights to lose itself, while imagination considers them as the paths to yet wilder scenes of silvan solitude.†  (source)
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    Silvan Tomkins said that there was.†  (source)
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    Before each pavilion was suspended the shield of the knight by whom it was occupied, and beside it stood his squire, quaintly disguised as a salvage or silvan man, or in some other fantastic dress, according to the taste of his master, and the character he was pleased to assume during the game.†  (source)
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    We may not be able to read faces as brilliantly as someone like Paul Ekman or Silvan Tomkins can, or pick up moments as subtle as Kato Kaelin's transformation into a snarling dog.†  (source)
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    To the best archer a prize was to be awarded, being a bugle-horn, mounted with silver, and a silken baldric richly ornamented with a medallion of St Hubert, the patron of silvan sport.†  (source)
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    After having in vain endeavoured to select the most beaten path, in hopes it might lead to the cottage of some herdsman, or the silvan lodge of a forester, and having repeatedly found himself totally unable to determine on a choice, the knight resolved to trust to the sagacity of his horse; experience having, on former occasions, made him acquainted with the wonderful talent possessed by these animals for extricating themselves and their riders on such emergencies.†  (source)
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    Around, and at a distance from them, were seen many a bold yeoman, whose silvan dress and weatherbeaten countenances showed the ordinary nature of their occupation.†  (source)
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    The Sylvan newspaper had called it a "Luna-tic Vision."  (source)
    Sylvan = the name of a town in this novel
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    T. Ray and I lived just outside Sylvan, South Carolina, population 3,100.  (source)
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    Tiburon was a place like Sylvan, minus the peaches.  (source)
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    Because of you I can't walk down the street in Sylvan without people staring at me.  (source)
    Sylvan = the name of a town in this novel
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    We came into Sylvan on the worst side of town.  (source)
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    That Mary would stand in for me back home in Sylvan so T. Ray wouldn't notice I was gone?  (source)
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    The jail in Tiburon did not have curtains like the one in Sylvan.  (source)
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    Sylvan Memorial Hospital was a low brick building with one wing for whites and one for blacks.  (source)
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    Deborah had a friend from high school who'd just moved to Sylvan.  (source)
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    "My mother came to Sylvan," I said, "met T. Ray, and got married."  (source)
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    Finally she went back to Sylvan to get you.  (source)
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    "My mother stayed here three months before she went back to Sylvan," I said.  (source)
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    It's just a handful of things your mother left here the day she went back to Sylvan to get you.  (source)
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