stag
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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
Gascoigne said: "Where the Monarch shows the stag in the brilliance of youth, this is a darker, more epic vision: majestic, charged with tension, and iconic in its vision of the Highlands."
From BBC ● Jul. 2, 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
This summer, Hatton attended a friend's stag do in Portugal.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2025
The immense war helmet he wore had the plumes of a blackbird and the horns of a stag beetle adorning it.
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
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
The stags were the queerest to watch, for of course the antlers came up a long time before the rest of them, so at First Digory thought they were trees.
From "The Magician's Nephew" by C. S. Lewis
He is stagged; there is a game playing, but what I know not.
From Count Alarcos; a Tragedy by Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield
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
A number of loggers were present, dressed in the invariable mackinaw, stagged overalls and caulked shoes.
From The Centralia Conspiracy by Ralph Chaplin
"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
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
So you've been stagging this gentleman and me, and listening, have you?
From Recollections of Geoffrey Hamlyn by Henry Kingsley
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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