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Fawns rescued by Animal Nation, a nonprofit animal-rescue group in Rye, N.Y.

From New York Times • Jul. 20, 2021

The Lord Fawns and the Frank Greystocks of the world would be less likely to covet Lizzie, should she, by any little indiscretion, have placed herself under a temporary cloud.

From The Eustace Diamonds by Trollope, Anthony

The noble privacy of Fawns had left them—had left Mr. Verver at least—with a little accumulated sum of tolerance to spend on the high pitch and high colour of the public sphere.

From The Golden Bowl — Complete by James, Henry

The Fawns lived at Fawn Court all the year round, and consequently Lady Fawn thought that air was to be found in England sufficiently good for all purposes of vitality and recreation.

From The Eustace Diamonds by Trollope, Anthony

All the Fawns had spoken of him, in Lucy's absence, in the hardest terms of reproach, and declared that he was not fit to be spoken to by any decent person.

From The Eustace Diamonds by Trollope, Anthony