stag
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Scene in Braemar features a 12-point stag on a Highland peak.
From BBC ● Jun. 16, 2026
"He was a lovely stag with a beautiful pair of antlers and was a big favourite with the public who walk through the park."
From BBC ● Nov. 28, 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
Once you're done with the hen and stag do, then you have to factor in the cost of going to the big day itself.
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2025
“Patronuses,” said Harry, pointing his wand at his own: The stag slowed and walked, still gleaming brightly, toward the door.
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
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
“Usually 1,300 to 1,400 stags every year,” Jack replies.
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
On this island lived phoenixes, unicorns, black apes, and white stags.
From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston
A number of loggers were present, dressed in the invariable mackinaw, stagged overalls and caulked shoes.
From The Centralia Conspiracy by Ralph Chaplin
They were tangible annoyances, imps in stagged trousers and imps in calico dresses.
From Lost Farm Camp by Harry Herbert Knibbs
The tight driver's shoe and "stagged" trousers had not then come into use.
From The Riverman by Stewart Edward White
But, howsomdever, the farmer came wi 'um, and a waundy big dog that stagged me, and barked like fury.
From Olla Podrida by Frederick Marryat
Well; we coom back through t' teawn; an' we were both on us fair stagged up.
From Home-Life of the Lancashire Factory Folk during the Cotton Famine by Edwin Waugh
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
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
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
So you've been stagging this gentleman and me, and listening, have you?
From Recollections of Geoffrey Hamlyn by Henry Kingsley
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