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  • Thou rememberest the little goat-footed pipers in the story of Paquille?

    Virginity Sydney Kilgore 2010

  • There is something goat-footed about ash trees: the shaggy signs of Pan.

    Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

  • There is something goat-footed about ash trees: the shaggy signs of Pan.

    Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

  • Based on the titles - and Corydon's being the goat-footed son of Pan - I think I need to try these out.

    Atlantis Journal: More theories and the Countdown to New Atlantis Michael May 2008

  • Aegipan himself was a Greek sea-god, one of the many goat-footed gods known as Panes.

    Archive 2008-06-01 2008

  • Calling Wilson a "blind, deaf Don Quixote" and Clemenceau a xenophobe with "one illusion — France, and one disillusion — mankind" and only at the last moment scratching the purple prose he had reserved for Lloyd George: "this goat-footed bard, this half-human visitor to our age from the hag-ridden magic and enchanted woods of Celtic antiquity", an outraged Keynes prophesied that the reparations would keep Germany impoverished and ultimately threaten all Europe.

    Archive 2008-12-01 Robert Reich 2008

  • Calling Wilson a "blind, deaf Don Quixote" and Clemenceau a xenophobe with "one illusion — France, and one disillusion — mankind" and only at the last moment scratching the purple prose he had reserved for Lloyd George: "this goat-footed bard, this half-human visitor to our age from the hag-ridden magic and enchanted woods of Celtic antiquity", an outraged Keynes prophesied that the reparations would keep Germany impoverished and ultimately threaten all Europe.

    John Maynard Keynes: The Abridged Version Robert Reich 2008

  • There goes Pan and some of his nymphs, he went on, smiling, as a goat-footed figure and several scantily-clad female figures sped by, pinching each other in suggestive places and shrieking with laughter.

    The Big, Broad, Flexible Christian Anne Johnson 2008

  • Cummings*: in Just - spring when the world is mud - luscious the little lame baloonman whistles far and wee and eddyandbill come running from marbles and piracies and it's spring when the world is puddle-wonderful the queer old baloonman whistles far and wee and bettyandisbel come dancing from hop-scotch and jump-rope and it's spring and the goat-footed baloonMan whistles far and weeEnjoy!

    March 2006 2006

  • Aegipan himself was a Greek sea-god, one of the many goat-footed gods known as Panes.

    WMAM time once again 2008

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