stag
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On Saturday, a man in his 60s suffered chest injuries after being attacked by a stag in Richmond Park when it approached his picnic group.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
Visitors to London's Royal Parks are being reminded that it is illegal , externalto feed the wild deer after a man was injured by a stag that approached his picnic group.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 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
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
It was cloth-of-gold, heavy, with the crowned stag of Baratheon picked out in flakes of jet.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
On the positive side, Fitbit stags who bought into the IPO but sold soon after the stock went public made fast profits of up to 150%.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 28, 2026
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
“Usually 1,300 to 1,400 stags every year,” Jack replies.
From New York Times ● Jan. 18, 2023
A herd of stags is swimming toward Insmoor, seeking the best grazing.
From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black
A number of loggers were present, dressed in the invariable mackinaw, stagged overalls and caulked shoes.
From The Centralia Conspiracy by Ralph Chaplin
The tight driver's shoe and "stagged" trousers had not then come into use.
From The Riverman by Stewart Edward White
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
"Why I mean, my lord, I stagged him."
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
Ltd. $20,000,000, and there was said to be "hardly any stagging."
From Time Magazine Archive
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
"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
A young stripling or two may drop in, stagging it.
From Blue Ridge Country by Erskine Caldwell
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