stag
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Scene in Braemar features a 12-point stag on a Highland peak.
From BBC ● Jun. 16, 2026
Then, while out for my brother's stag do in a Liverpool nightclub, something happened that I haven't been able to forget since.
From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2025
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
This summer, Hatton attended a friend's stag do in Portugal.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2025
But once back under the shade of the trees the stag regained his momentum — or found a new desire to live — and the chase was renewed with vigor.
From "Ash" by Malinda Lo
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
The fenced pastures for the bulls were now overrun with thousands of young stags and pullets, pecking at the trail of food he threw out from the golf cart.
From New York Times ● Jan. 18, 2023
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
Lord Renly Was in dark green vel-vet, with a dozen golden stags embroidered on his dou-blet.
From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin
But, howsomdever, the farmer came wi 'um, and a waundy big dog that stagged me, and barked like fury.
From Olla Podrida by Marryat, Frederick
"Why I mean, my lord, I stagged him."
They were tangible annoyances, imps in stagged trousers and imps in calico dresses.
From Lost Farm Camp by Knibbs, Harry Herbert
Cadets who "stagged" it were expected to stand.
From Dick Prescott's First Year at West Point by Hancock, H. Irving (Harrie Irving)
He clambered laboriously from the shallows, the water draining from the bottom of his "stagged" trousers.
From The Rules of the Game by White, Stewart Edward
Ltd. $20,000,000, and there was said to be "hardly any stagging."
From Time Magazine Archive
A young stripling or two may drop in, stagging it.
From Blue Ridge Country by Caldwell, Erskine
But too many of the cadets were "stagging it" that night.
From Dick Prescott's Second Year at West Point Finding the Glory of the Soldier's Life by Hancock, H. Irving (Harrie Irving)
"I should cut the concern," said Watson, "and take to stagging in Surrey."
From Marion Fay by Trollope, Anthony
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 Grose, Francis
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