The stag-hunter's pleasure depends, it seems to me, entirely on the intelligence of the particular stag whose services happen to be retained for the day.
It seemed to me to be a curious shelter for a stag to choose--a butcher's shop!
If, on the other hand, the creature is generous, not to say charitable--as our stag was!
It was more than doubtful if he would catch a glimpse of the stag again that day--it would be entirely owing to the benevolence of that intelligent creature if he did.
I expect the stag threw them off in the forest; we quitted when we crossed the line and made for it--didn't think it was good enough.
When one thinks of a stag one thinks of antlers; if that stag had antlers, then they were in what may be described as an apologetic state.
Only a short time ago I had read somewhere a piteous account of a stag which, in its agony, had broken its heart and died.
My friend and I thought that we would keep an eye upon the stagtill we had news of it.
It's my idea that he gave that last stagdinner because he couldn't get Minna or Edith there, or any woman.
The rally and the library and this new democracy stuff, stag dinners to Ward's crowd and all, are part of a campaign to stop it.
Here he stood waiting for the enemy, waiting too for his main body of troops under Sir John Fastolf to join the train, when the advent of the stag discovered his presence to the French.
All at once they roused a stag as they rode, and, startled, the animal bounded away before them, disappearing into some bushes which grew as a hedge by the roadside.
There were some books in the house which had pictures of hunts, and one was of a stag-hunt, the stag at bay, the dogs seizing him, the huntsmen firing.
The bones of the stag and wild boar seem to predominate among those of the sheep, ox, roe, badger, etc.
Whenever I die, I hope you will let me be carried by young children clad in white to some green grave in your own woods, where only a stag will come or a pretty hare.
The stag lay there, dead, and his splendid antlers bore eight prongs.
Herr Federl shot a stag of eight this morning, and I hear that yesterday you missed a Reh-bock!
Ruth breathlessly, "Federl shot a stag of ten this morning at daybreak on the Red Peak, and he's frightened out of his wits, for only the duke has a right to do that.
Across the ravine a large stag was swaying on the edge; then he fell and rolled to the bottom.
A moment, and the old stag disappeared; the others followed him.
Had I thought that he had seen your face, I would have cleft his skull with no more hesitation than I send an arrow into the brain of a stag in the forest.
You are not wont to visit us till even, when you can lay your crossbow at a stagby moonlight.
Like unto a hawk after its prey on a sharp tempestuous day, or to a tearing blast of wind of Spring on a March day over the back of a plain, or unto a startled stag when first roused by the hounds in the first of the chase, [LL.
If I make any move, the horns of the deer will pierce and gore me, [9]for the horns of the stag have filled the whole space between the two shafts of the chariot.
I wish to consult you on this passage, 'Molli fugiens anhelitu,' you know it refers to a stag flying from a wolf.
Admirable, sire; but my messenger is like the stag you refer to, for he has posted two hundred and twenty leagues in scarcely three days.
The woman who wishes to give her husband a birthday party or anniversary will not go amiss if she makes it a "stag dinner"--that is, a dinner for men only.
A stag card-party sometimes takes the place of a dinner; it is followed by a substantial supper.
The stag is said to be "a great enemy to all kinds of serpents, which he labours to destroy whenever he finds any, but he is afraid of almost all other creatures.
The heraldic unicorn is in all respects a horse save and except the horn, while our old author tells us of the head of a stag and the feet of an elephant.
The serpent sometimes climbs upon its back and bites it cruelly, when the stag rushes to some river or fountain and throws itself into the water to rid itself of its enemy.
The frighted wolf now swims among the sheep, The yellow lion wanders in the deep; His rapid force no longer helps the boar, The stag swims faster than he ran before.
He brought into the presence of Eurystheus a stag famous for its incredible swiftness and golden horns.
While thestag has scented us and gone, there must be more deer in the woods.
The Indian admired the stag which, like himself, fitted into the forest.
Robert, following his gaze, saw a stag about a hundred yards away, a splendid fellow with head upraised, not in alarm, but to nuzzle some tender young leaves.
Ducks that have not yet seen us are swimming quietly up the creek, and farther on a stag is drinking at its edge.
Looking back, Robert saw that the carcass of the stag was already covered with hungry wolves, every one fighting for a portion, and he knew it was the way of the forest.
It struck the stagin the heart and he did not move ten feet from where he stood.
I wouldn't have noticed it, but since you've spoken of it I can hear the stag too.
The stag is of silver, gilt all over; the collar set with a garnet.
The stag being placed betwixt them, with egg-shells full of sweet water (as before) placed in salt.
Then in another charger have the proportion of a stag made of coarse paste, with a broad arrow in the side of him, and his body filled up with claret wine.
He looked around him then, and he saw a herd of deer coming through the scrub, and he went towards them, and threw a spear that went through the nearest stag and drove the bowels out of him.
It is no shame for me," said Credhe, "I to die for grief after Cael, since the stag is shortening his life sorrowing after the hind.
Sorrowful the call, O sorrowful the call of the deer in the Ridge of Two Lights; the doe is lying dead in Druim Silenn, the mighty stag cries after her.
The deer of Slievecarn of the gatherings does not lay his side to the ground; he no less than the stag of the top of cold Echtge hears the music of the wolves.
The stag of the heather of quiet Cruachan, the sorrowful croak from the ridge of the Two Lakes; the voice of the eagle of the Valley of the Shapes, the voice of the cuckoo on the Hill of Brambles.
In point of fact, whatever Galen may say, what dreadful accidents can a piece of stag properly cooked produce?
Their stag pies[XXIV-31] are no longer in vogue; neither have we any taste for their great pies which contained a lamb or a stuffed kid, surrounded with goslings by dozens and scores.
The dogs were held under the whip about the carcass of the stag until the grand huntsman, having received the order from the King, gave the sign with his wand that they should be set at liberty.
Henry IV, as a prince, when hunting the stagwith Martial often swept across the low plains of Versailles.
Stag hunting was even more impressive in ceremonial details.
After we had got berries and water enough, we set sail again, and this time for the opposite shore, where Uncle Ralph's keen eyes had detected a stag and two fawns.
I knew it would mar my own and my aunt's pleasure, if we were made to see the death of a noble stag or a gentle fawn.
The antlers may have as many as forty-eight points; and a stag with more than the three anterior tines is termed a "Royal Hart.
The well-trampled ground gives an easy footing, and by his powerful horns the great stag is able to keep his enemies at bay.
The headland and its three curves boldly project into the sunlit waters; from its foot many a gallant stag hard pressed by the hounds has swum out into the track of passing vessels.
A stag occasionally leaps the boundary and forages among the farmers' corn, or visits a garden, and then the owner can form some idea of what must have been the difficulties of agriculture in mediaeval days.
There seems room enough to chase the red stag from Buckhurst Park with horn and hound till, mayhap, he ended in the sea at Pevensey.
And all the concourse wished him length of days, O'erjoyed to see, with horns of glittering gold, The living stagwithin the hero's hold.
This was the stag a woodland nymph of old To swift Diana gave, remembering she Had been her friend in dire extremity.
This stag it was that brave Mycenæ's king Had bidden valiant Hercules to bring Alive unto his court.
In rapid flight the hunted stag had come From craggy heights of Artemesium To placid Ladon's fruitful vale, and there Had sought a refuge in a cavern ne'er Beheld by mortal man.
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