stag's-horn

Beyond them, the forest was full of starved and stunted trees that poked bare, stag's-horn branches into the dirty air.

Calling A Dead Man Cross, Gillian 2001

Nor would it float evenly, having a stag's-horn handle, a tip should break the surface, wherever it lodged, and he did not believe it would be carried so far as the brook and the river.

The Raven In The Foregate Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995 1986

That great staff he was always so lungeous with - ebony, tall as his elbow, with a stag's-horn handle - that's what I came to look for.

The Raven In The Foregate Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995 1986

Warmson, not without a sense of humour, opened the door beyond the stag's-horn coat stand, with the words:

The Forsyte Saga - Complete John Galsworthy 1900

Warmson, not without a sense of humour, opened the door beyond the stag's-horn coat stand, with the words:

Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works John Galsworthy 1900

Warmson, not without a sense of humour, opened the door beyond the stag's-horn coat stand, with the words:

The Forsyte Saga, Volume II. Indian Summer of a Forsyte In Chancery John Galsworthy 1900

Though harsh and flaky, the surface of the bark seems to retain moisture, making it attractive to several species of fungi and epiphytal ferns, the most conspicuous of the latter being the stag's-horn.

Tropic Days 1887

Above such hopeful sands lies a band formed of stag's-horn coral, bleached snow-white, each time lying at right angles to the sea, and higher up on the strand are blocks and lumps of weather-stained coral among which vegetation is springing.

Tropic Days 1887

The blade of a foreign-looking knife had been thrust through it deep into the wood, and the stag's-horn handle turned down in the shape of a reversed capital V-- the spring holding the paper firm.

The Dew of Their Youth 1887

Alert, I tracked the strange sound along an eccentric course to its haunt, finding nothing more than the empty shell of a huge sea urchin, which in accord with a whim of the sea had floated and was now held aloft slantwise to the lips of the wind, firm in the branching tines of stag's-horn coral.

My Tropic Isle 1887