The combined hoofs and antlers of the herd might have fought off the beasts for a time, but the herd-yard was now too far away for Fleet Foot ever to reach it with the fawns before those lean gray shapes would be at their throats.
With a bellow of rage, the second buck came plunging, and the two crashed together, antlers against antlers.
The hunting season had opened, and to the huntsman our little family meant merely a few pounds of venison for his table, and the pride of a pair of antlers to hang his gun upon.
Then they lowered their antlers like shields, and Fleet Foot's champion got in a good dig at the other's ribs.
Meanwhile, the flying buck, shaking his heavy antlerswith frenzied rage, rushes with bloodshot eyes upon the beaters who bar his way.
The children watched it sink until only the antlers showed above water like a forked bough adrift on the tideway.
He had his knife ready, and the rowers too had a rope ready to lasso the stags' antlers when they caught up with him.
Suppose he were to send his last breath in one of those transparent globes, and I look down and see his body snared in the antlers of coral, stained with his blood?
The antlers have the trez-tine near the small brow-tine, and the palmation beginning near the former.
The antlers are greatly palmated and of enormous size, fine specimens measuring as much as 11 ft.
The new antlers are not yet grown; they are but knots grown over with tender hide.
Placing one foot on the crowned antlers of the stag lying prone before her, she smiled full in the face of her adversary; and, as though to emphasize the insulting challenge, raising her pistol, she fired the remaining shot into the air.
He took a pair of enormous elk-horns, and fashioned from each horn a two-pronged pick or spade, by removing all the antlers except the two topmost.
It was a stone elk-head, such as it appears in earliest summer, when the antlers are sprouting lustily under their rough jacket of velvet.
Examples of this use of the antlers of the deer are by no means rare.
After which we presume that he spitted the moose on a pine tree, roasted and ate it, and used its antlers for toothpicks.
The most remarkable remains left behind in these refuse heaps are the sculptured reindeer antlers and figures engraved on fragments of schist and on ivory.
The antlers of a stag over the doorway held his rifle, his hunting-belt, and his hat.
A pair of much younger antlers from the same locality likewise lacks the bez tine.
Mr. Sokalski has, however, a fine pair of Carpathian antlers characterised by their great massiveness, the absence of a bez tine, and the position of the trez tine midway between the brow tine and the curiously compressed and expanded crown.
But a comparison of immature specimens in which the front prong of the main fork is double with adult antlers of the mule-deer will show that the two are practically identical in type.
Another feature indicating the satisfactory condition of the herd is the large size of the antlers grown by the big stags, of which there are now three; all being imported animals.
The finest pair of elk-antlers in the apartment possesses a special and distinctly pathetic interest of its own.
Assuming all these antlers to belong to the same type--and it is difficult to come to any conclusion--we have evidence of a race of red deer ranging from Volhynia through the Carpathians to Asia Minor and the Crimea.
The heads of several deer with branching antlers looked down at them from the walls, and on the floor in front of the fire-place was stretched the skin of a great black bear.
Then we'll have time I think to drop you at theAntlers and stop for you again on the way back.
The common stag loses his antlers early in the spring; and they sprout forth again very soon after.
When the skin is gone, the antlers remain, as it were mechanically, and as it is one of the great laws of life to throw off every thing which is no longer a part of itself, they obey the rule.
He pointed to several antlers on the wall on which hung an array of rifles and daggers.
Instead of giving chase he went straight back to the lumber-camp, feeling almost as sure of that new pair of antlers as if he had carried them with him.
He continued to grow and prosper, and the next summer he raised a pair of forked antlers with two tines each.
Finally, they backed off and rushed together again with such violence that our Buck's antlers were forced apart just a trifle, and his enemy's slipped in between them.
The next year it was his antlers that got him into trouble--his antlersand his quarrelsomeness.
A pair of widely branchingantlers is as useful in warding off blows as in delivering them.
There was little danger that their antlers would get locked this time, with one pair so badly mismated; and it bade fair to be a very ordinary, every-day sort of a fight.
They would never again toss those beautiful antlersin the air, for they had come together with their heads held low, and in that position they must remain.
No sooner were the antlers finished than the Buck began to grow fat.
Already the budding antlers were pushing through the skin on the top of his head, which alone is pretty good proof that he was a remarkable baby.
The deer with the perfect antlerswas not only vanquished, but killed; and the victor was off on the trail of the doe.
The antlers of a Buck, Stag, or Hart: having antlers.
The deer's antlers still hung over the master's place at the board, but the oaken chair was gone.
The antlersare used as the weapons in these duels, and cases have been recorded where these have become so firmly interlocked that they could not be separated, resulting in the death of both individuals.
The antlers of both Wapiti and stag are much alike, though those of the former are longer and heavier, corresponding to its larger size.
The males only have horns; and they must be several years old before the antlers become full and branching.
The one with the antlerswas the male or bull-moose.
The buck now saw that it was likely to be all up with him, and, instead of attempting to swim farther, he faced round, and set his antlers forward in a threatening attitude.
His horns were full grown, but still "in the velvet," and as he ran with his snout thrown forward, his antlers lay along both sides of his neck until their tips touched his shoulders.
The canoe was paddled up, and his antlers being made fast to the stern, he was towed back to the shore, and carried into camp.
Within fifty yards of him he saw the high shoulders of the bull-moose and his great flat antlers towering over the tops of the willows, among the leaves of which the snout of the animal was buried.
The vast antlers were characteristics that left no room to doubt of his species.
The stag lay untouched in the pool, his huge antlers alone appearing above the surface of the water, while the dog stood baying on the bank.
Six or seven times had they seen the wounded stag, and six or seven times had Fritz brought him to bay, but Fritz for his pains had only received several severe scores from the antlers of the enraged animal.
With a real thrill he saw himself bear his opponent to the ground, then hurl him high and far into the air, to be impaled upon the antlers of an elk's head suspended back of the bar.
A large deer with all his scraggly antlersmight hold a single wolf at bay, but this deer's antlers had been cut to mere stubs that he might travel more lightly.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "antlers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
