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Tag Name "Stag" (15)

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GNU, n. An animal of South Africa, which in its domesticated state resembles a horse, a buffalo and a stag. In its wild condition it is something like a thunderbolt, an earthquake and a cyclone.
Ambrose Bierce
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The Italians say it is not necessary to be a stag but we ought not to be a tortoise.
Benjamin Disraeli
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Basil Stag Hare tut-tutted severely as he remarked to Ambrose Spike, 'Tch, tch. Dreadful table manners. Just look at those three wallahs, kicking up a hullaballoo like that! Eating's a serious business.
Brian Jacques
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Youth is fair, a graceful stag, Leaping, playing in a park. Age is gray, a toothless hag, Stumbling in the dark.
I. L. Peretz
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And now a chill settled over them where they stood, and Harry heard the rasping breath of the dementors that patrolled the outer trees. They would not affect him now. The fact of his own survival burned inside him, a talisman against them, as though his father's stag kept guardian in his heart.
J. K. Rowling
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He called her: mother of pearl, barley woman, rice provider, millet basket, corn maid, flax princess, all-maker, weef She called him: fawn, roebuck, stag, courage, thunderman, all-in-green, mountain strider, keeper of forests, my-love-rides
Judy Grahn
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I've got a stag weekend coming up and I've said I'm not doing anything more than a few drinks. I won't have it. I'll go home and watch Antiques Roadshow.
Martin Freeman
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I don't want to smoke cigars or go to stag parties, wear jockey shorts or pick up the check.
Shelley Winters
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Though I am an old horse, and have seen and heard a great deal, I never yet could make out why men are so fond of this sport they often hurt themselves, often spoil good horses, and tear up the fields, and all for a hare, or a fox, or a stag, that they could get more easily some other way but we are only horses, and don't know.
Anna Sewell
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The Stag at Bay with the mentality of a fox at large.
Bernard Levin
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As the stag which the huntsman has hit flies through bush and brake, over stock and stone, thereby exhausting his strength but not expelling the deadly bullet from his body so does experience show that they who have troubled consciences run from place to place, but carry with them wherever they go their dangerous wounds.
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
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When the lion had eaten its fill, and the jackals had taken their share, the ants came along and finished up the meat from the bones of the haughty stag.
Idries Shah
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I looked long and carefully at the picture of a stag painted by Landseer - the style was good, and the brush was handled with fine effect, but he fails in copying Nature, without which the best work will be a failure.
John James Audubon
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I had spared the stag's life. The power of that life belonged to me as surely as it belonged to the man who had taken it.
Leigh Bardugo
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In Haydn's oratorios, the notes present to the imagination not only motions, as, of the snake, the stag, and the elephant, but colors also as the green grass.
Ralph Waldo Emerson