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  • "Sylvan is a world where you cannot see the tree for the woods."

    Archive 2010-01-01 Blue Tyson 2010

  • She's in Sylvan now twice a week to better her math scores.

    Katie Reports eddvick 2009

  • Forest, the animal called Sylvan, whom our soldiers have so far indoctrinated in our Saxon tongue as to make him useful in the wards of the prison, was bemoaning himself on account of some violent injury.

    Count Robert of Paris 2008

  • One time we were in a resort area called Sylvan Lake for a gig at a dance hall.

    Cheech & Chong Tommy Chong 2008

  • One time we were in a resort area called Sylvan Lake for a gig at a dance hall.

    Cheech & Chong Tommy Chong 2008

  • Descending with a torch, I found the bed on which the prisoner had been let down burnt to cinders; the tiger which had been chained within a spring of it, with its skull broken to pieces; the creature called Sylvan, prostrate, and writhing under great pain and terror, and no prisoner whatever in the dungeon.

    Count Robert of Paris 2008

  • I think they were called Sylvan Woods or something.

    Spreading Happiness at the Thrift Store Anne Johnson 2008

  • Before Lindstrom bought most of the cove, it had been called Sylvan.

    PURGATORY RIDGE WILLIAM KENT KRUEGER 2001

  • I hastened to examine, and my surprise was extreme, when looking down into the dungeon, though I could see nothing distinctly, yet, by the wailing and whimpering sounds, I conceived that the Man of the Forest, the animal called Sylvan, whom our soldiers have so far indoctrinated in our Saxon tongue as to make him useful in the wards of the prison, was bemoaning himself on account of some violent injury.

    Waverley Novels — Volume 12 Walter Scott 1801

  • Descending with a torch, I found the bed on which the prisoner had been let down burnt to cinders; the tiger which had been chained within a spring of it, with its skull broken to pieces; the creature called Sylvan, prostrate, and writhing under great pain and terror, and no prisoner whatever in the dungeon.

    Waverley Novels — Volume 12 Walter Scott 1801

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