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  • It made him feel like a satyr, goat-legged and reeking.

    Drums of Autumn Gabaldon, Diana 1997

  • There was also an immense, carved clothespress, deep rugs over the timbered floor, and an impossibly grand bed with a canopy and fringe attached to the tall carved posts, goat-legged imps running up and down them in vivid detail.

    A Girl Possessed Winspear, Violet 1980

  • The horned and goat-legged Pan was there, and Vulcan, crippled and ugly with his squat body and giant arms, reclining like an ape on a couch all alone, and motherly looking Ceres using one hand to pat her hair as if she, not Forrester, were the nervous one.

    Pagan Passions Laurence M. Janifer 1967

  • It became a monstrous, goat-legged thing, more vast than the creatures of nightmare.

    The Magician 1919

  • At the far end of the chamber, to the right of one of the tall windows that looked out over the inner court, before a goat-legged writing-table with

    Scaramouche Rafael Sabatini 1912

  • _Satyr_, a horned and goat-legged demi-god of the woods.l. 5.

    Keats: Poems Published in 1820 John Keats 1808

  • If that rock painting was telling a true story and not some allegorical fantasy -- these people who had built this place had been a race who knew the secrets of life so intimately they could manipulate the unborn child into shapes intended to give it powers and physical attributes fitting it for amphibious life, for the underground boring life of a mole, for the tending of flocks in the goat-legged men -- the whole gamut of these monstrous diversions from the normal human seemed to me designed -- purposely -- to build a race which, like ants, has a shape fitted to its trade.

    Valley of the Croen Lee Tarbell

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