stag
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Scene in Braemar features a 12-point stag on a Highland peak.
From BBC ● Jun. 16, 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
On the last day of their girls' trip in June, the group befriended a stag party and were playing games, running around outside their accommodation and "being silly".
From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2025
This summer, Hatton attended a friend's stag do in Portugal.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2025
“But the dogs will tire before the stag does, so we place additional relays of dogs along the trail to take over when the others are winded.”
From "Ash" by Malinda Lo
Adult males, known as stags, can measure over a metre tall at the shoulder.
From BBC ● Mar. 20, 2023
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
Among all those gathered and gathering, only Lazlo recognized the white stags of the Unseen City, and only he knew the warriors for who they were.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
They were tangible annoyances, imps in stagged trousers and imps in calico dresses.
From Lost Farm Camp by Harry Herbert Knibbs
He is stagged; there is a game playing, but what I know not.
From Count Alarcos; a Tragedy by Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield
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
But month after month went by, an' th' brass kept gettin' less, do what we would; an' th' times geet wur, till at last we fund ersels fair stagged up.
From Home-Life of the Lancashire Factory Folk during the Cotton Famine by Edwin Waugh
Cadets who "stagged" it were expected to stand.
From Dick Prescott's First Year at West Point by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock
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
So you've been stagging this gentleman and me, and listening, have you?
From Recollections of Geoffrey Hamlyn by Henry Kingsley
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
A young stripling or two may drop in, stagging it.
From Blue Ridge Country by Erskine Caldwell
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