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  • In lone Glenartney's thickets lies crouched the lordly stag,

    The Bed-Book of Happiness Harold Begbie 1900

  • Arthur and Gwenhwyvar heard them disputing about the head of the stag,

    The Mabinogion Vol. 2 (of 3) Owen Morgan Edwards 1889

  • Jason appeared with the golden fleece, Phoebus Apollo brought in a calf stolen from the herds of Admetus, Diana led Actæon in the form of a stag,

    Beatrice d'Este, Duchess of Milan, 1475-1497 Julia Mary Cartwright Ady 1887

  • He returns to his companions with his information, and on the way back he kills a high-horned stag,

    Homer's Odyssey A Commentary Denton Jaques Snider 1883

  • He brought back the head {197b} of a roebuck, {197c} the head of a wild boar, the head of a stag,

    Y Gododin A Poem of the Battle of Cattraeth Aneurin 1836

  • Suddenly, with extraordinary clearness, he thought: ‘Here am I, Dmitri Olenin, a being quite distinct from every other being, now lying all alone Heaven only knows where — where a stag used to live — an old stag,

    The Cossacks 2003

  • a wounded deer for three days, 121 -- Comhstri drowns a stag,

    Anecdotes of Dogs Edward Jesse 1824

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