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Definition of Fawnlike
1. resembling a young deer [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fawnlike
Literary usage of Fawnlike
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Poetical Works of Edward Vaughan Kenealy by Edward Vaughan Kenealy, Homer (1878)
"That blows o'er groves of spice, and bids their sweets exhale. And to this soul
was given a fairy form, fawnlike in lightness ..."
2. Goethe: A New Pantomime by Edward Vaughan Kenealy (1850)
"And to this soul was given a fairy form, fawnlike in lightness! fawnlike were
her eyes; A beauteous rainbow shining in a storm ; A star that glitters in ..."
3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1857)
"The fawnlike unconsciousness was gone, and in that one look were the ground tones
of poor little Caterina's nature—intense love and fierce ..."
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