stag
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The stag was shot by a Royal Parks wildlife officer, the charity said.
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026
The stag, who was eight years old, was one of two in the herd.
From BBC ● Nov. 28, 2025
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
She flung into his face drops from her wet hand and as they fell upon him he was changed into a stag.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
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
“She gave an example to other women. And she did big paintings — of horses, stags, lions — not small flowers, in pastels. That is feminist.”
From New York Times ● Oct. 17, 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
On this island lived phoenixes, unicorns, black apes, and white stags.
From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston
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
They were tangible annoyances, imps in stagged trousers and imps in calico dresses.
From Lost Farm Camp by Harry Herbert Knibbs
Cadets who "stagged" it were expected to stand.
From Dick Prescott's First Year at West Point by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock
"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
"Why I mean, my lord, I stagged him."
Ltd. $20,000,000, and there was said to be "hardly any stagging."
From Time Magazine Archive
"I should cut the concern," said Watson, "and take to stagging in Surrey."
From Marion Fay by Anthony Trollope
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
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 H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock
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