stag
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On Saturday, a man in his 60s suffered chest injuries after being attacked by a stag in Richmond Park when it approached his picnic group.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
Featuring a 12-point stag on a Scottish Highland peak, it was commissioned by railway magnate Edward Betts and has passed through various private collections.
From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026
"The stag part of the stagflation is already being felt in terms of restaurants closing down and households having less natural gas," Subramanian said.
From BBC ● Apr. 6, 2026
Life at the St. George Reef Lighthouse — a so-called stag station where no women or children were allowed — was brutal and lonely.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2025
Davos could make out Fury well to the southeast, her sails shimmering golden as they came flown, the crowned stag of Baratheon blazoned on the canvas.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
Most of our pets don’t pull carts, hunt stags, herd sheep or detect drugs, where we need to ensure correct performance.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 27, 2023
Together, they gambol like the stags in the poem.
From New York Times ● Jul. 3, 2022
Stags with big antlers score more often than stags with small ones.
From Salon ● Jun. 19, 2022
“I just kind of see it as two stags locking up in the forest,” Cole said.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 7, 2022
The garments the sisters took from them were decorated with black hearts, grey lions, dead flowers, and pale ghostly stags.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
He is stagged; there is a game playing, but what I know not.
From Count Alarcos; a Tragedy by Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield
The tight driver's shoe and "stagged" trousers had not then come into use.
From The Riverman by Stewart Edward White
He clambered laboriously from the shallows, the water draining from the bottom of his "stagged" trousers.
From The Rules of the Game by Stewart Edward White
"For we don't really want to go to the seminary; we go to school here in Milton," which peculiar association of ideas rather stagged General MacKenzie.
From The Corner House Girls Growing Up What Happened First, What Came Next. And How It Ended by Grace Brooks Hill
A number of loggers were present, dressed in the invariable mackinaw, stagged overalls and caulked shoes.
From The Centralia Conspiracy by Ralph Chaplin
Ltd. $20,000,000, and there was said to be "hardly any stagging."
From Time Magazine Archive
So you've been stagging this gentleman and me, and listening, have you?
From Recollections of Geoffrey Hamlyn by Henry Kingsley
The cove was touting, but stagging the traps he toddled; be was looking out, and feeing the officers he walked away.
From 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
A young stripling or two may drop in, stagging it.
From Blue Ridge Country by Erskine Caldwell
"I should cut the concern," said Watson, "and take to stagging in Surrey."
From Marion Fay by Anthony Trollope
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