Use deer in a sentence
Sentences ending with deer
- But fear gives you a watchful eye and keen, and I read the true name through the scratches, and fled like a deer. [5]
- Telling his sister where they had been placed, every morning she would go in search, and never fail of finding each stuck through the heart of a deer. [5]
- Smith sent men up to their town, a display of force was made by firing four guns, and the Indians kindly traded, giving fish, oysters, bread, and deer. [4]
- In that moment the sportsman is supposed to shoot the deer. [4]
- It was I that killed the deer! [5]
- They naturally want some pleasure out of the death of the deer. [4]
- They were lightly laughing over some pleasant matter; they heard his step, and glanced up just as he discovered them; the laugh died abruptly; and before Ed could speak they were off, and sailing over barrels and bales like hunted deer. [5]
- All that the hunter has to do is to seat himself by one of these runways, or sit in a boat on the lake, and wait the coming of the pursued deer. [4]
- Everybody told what he was just going to do; everybody who had seen the performance was a kind of hero,--everybody except the deer. [4]
- Gran'pa, here is Davy back, and he has shot a deer. [9]
Sentences containing deer two or more times
- His clothes he made himself out of the skins of deer that he shot; when his powder and shot gave out, he killed the deer with bow and arrow. [11]
- Some of our best sportsmen, who desire to protract the pleasure of slaying deer through as many seasons as possible, object to the practice of the hunters, who make it their chief business to slaughter as many deer in a camping season as they can. [4]
More example sentences with the word deer in them
- And virgin valleys, where future generations were to be born, spread out and narrowed again,--valleys with a deep carpet of cane and grass, where the deer and elk and bear fed unmolested. [9]
- He dwelt upon what she did; the walks she took in the park, those hours in the afternoon when, with Mackenzie or Colvin, she vanished into the beeches, making friends with the birds and deer and swans. [11]
- All about me were gray heaps of ashes, and bones of deer and elk and buffalo scattered, some picked clean, some with the meat and hide sticking to them. [9]
- Perhaps some deer were feeding there, for it was no unusual thing, when we rose in the morning, to hear the whistle of a startled doe near our camping ground. [9]
- At sundown, when we loosed our exhausted horses to graze on the wet grass by the streams, Tom would go off to look for a deer or turkey, and often not come back to us until long after darkness had fallen. [9]
- One evening, as we drew to the camp-fire, a deer broke from the woods and ran straight through the little circle we were making, and disappeared in the bushes by the riverside. [11]
- Her mental sight was as keen and accurate as that which runs along the rifle-barrel of the great hunter with the red deer in view. [11]
- But Big Tom was a gentleman: he never killed deer for mere sport. [4]
- How the hunters vied with each other to supply the best, and spent the days stalking the deer cowering in the wet thickets. [9]
- By instinct it turns to where help lies, as a wild deer, fleeing, from captivity, makes for the veldt and the watercourse. [11]
- When, from time to time, the snow melted on the hillsides, I sometimes surprised a deer there and shot him with the heavy rifle. [9]
- To paddle up to the swimming deer, and cut his throat, is a sure means of getting venison, and has its charms for some. [4]
- So it was to kill a deer from the King's forest, or to export sheep from the kingdom.--Dr. [5]
- They were come to express their abhorrence of the night's doings, of which they were as innocent as the deer of the forest. [9]
- Now at this time our reconnaissance, feeling its way in the bush, frightened a deer, and it went bounding away and was out of sight in a moment. [5]
- Farther and farther they went afield for game, and always they grumbled sorely against this horde which had driven the deer from his cover and the buffalo from his wallow. [9]
- Their own rule, they say, is to kill a deer only when they need venison to eat. [4]
- What right have these sophists to put themselves into a desert place, out of the reach of provisions, and then ground a right to slay deer on their own improvidence? [4]
- The historians find themselves "justified in believing" that the young Shakespeare poached upon Sir Thomas Lucy's deer preserves and got haled before that magistrate for it. [5]
- The deer have their established runways, as I said; and, when they are disturbed in their retreat, they are certain to attempt to escape by following one which invariably leads to some lake or stream. [4]
- They dropped down the river to a place called Mulberry Shade, where the King killed a deer and prepared for them another feast, at which they had rolls and cakes made of wheat. [4]
- Many times in the pursuit of my affairs I journeyed over that country which I had known when it belonged to the Indian and the deer and the elk and the wolf and the buffalo. [9]
- They sat on the porch in the morning light, harking to the whistle of the quail in the corn, and watching the frightened deer scamper across the open. [9]
- The greenwood is the place for me, For that is where the dun deer be, 'Tis where my Dolly comes to me: And who would stay at home, That might with Dolly roam? [11]
- The greenwood is the place for me, For that is where the dun deer be, And who would stay at home, That might with Dolly roam? [11]
- I will drive the low fellows together like deer for hunting, for they are all rogues and villains, and I shall know how to torture them until I find the right one. [10]
- If you have the footprints and the handprints you can tell the whole man; if you have the horns of a deer you know it as if you had killed it, skinned it, and potted it. [11]
- It passed in the dusk with a foot of fear, And the white cold mists rolled in; And my heart was the heart of a stricken deer, Of a soul in the snare of sin. [11]
- By this time, the dogs, panting, and lolling out their tongues, came swinging along, keeping the trail, like stupids, and consequently losing ground when the deer doubled. [4]
- The fox and the deer run away from us; the bear and the tiger rend us. [6]
- But nobody except the deer considered it in that light. [4]
- The crab is the colour of the seaweed, and the deer of the thicket. [9]
- Don't you know that the wounded deer is always attacked and killed by its companions and friends? [5]
- The wind was southerly: it is what the deer call a dog-wind, having come to know quite well the meaning of "a southerly wind and a cloudy sky. [4]
- He gets them so broken in that they will run like a pair of deer all over the farm, turning the yoke, and kicking their heels, while he follows in full chase, shouting the ox language till he is red in the face. [4]
- Some young fellows shooting at a mark in the meadow saw the flying deer, and popped away at her; but they were accustomed to a mark that stood still. [4]
- The hounds are sent into the forest to rouse the deer, and drive him from his cover. [4]
- Did you never see how beautiful and modest the faces of deer are; how chic and sensitive is the manner of a hound; nor the keen, warm look in the eye of a well-bred mare? [11]
- There was the rifle with which he had killed deer in the woods beyond the Saguenay and bear beyond the Chicoutimi. [11]
- The tallest and reddest cedars in the world grew there, with pines, cypresses, and other trees, and in the woods plenty of deer, conies, and fowls in incredible abundance. [4]
- The deer was ravaging the man's fields, and he had killed it in sudden passion, and not for gain; and he had carried it into the royal forest in the hope that that might make detection of the misdoer impossible. [5]
- Red deer are plenty in the woods along the Danube. [10]
- Science,' May 1868, p. 9) says that the American deer fight with their fore-feet, after "the question of superiority has been once settled and acknowledged in the herd. [1]
- Jim Ray went out to look for a deer, and found 'em off 'n the trail. [9]
- The "run," in one direction, will lead to water; but, in the other, it climbs the highest hills, to which the deer retires, for safety and repose, in impenetrable thickets. [4]
- Then I ran on again up the creek, heedless of cover, stumbling over logs and trailing vines, when all at once a dozen bronze forms glided with the speed of deer across my path ahead. [9]
- I am much obliged to Mr. Cupples for having made enquiries for me in regard to the Roebuck and Red Deer of Scotland from Mr. Robertson, the experienced head-forester to the Marquis of Breadalbane. [1]
- If the deer, now, could only have been caught I No doubt there were tenderhearted people in the valley who would have spared her life, shut her up in a stable, and petted her. [4]
- The skins were not those of mere foxes or martens or deer, but of mountain lions and grizzlies. [11]
- Large animals are not common in these woods now, and you seldom meet anything fiercer than the timid deer and the gentle bear. [4]
- I killed that mountain lion, and I ate the haunch of deer I dragged from under her . [11]
- One of the most picturesque methods of hunting the poor deer is called "floating. [4]
- We had no money, not even the worthless scrip that Congress issued; but a beaver skin was worth eighteen shillings, a bearskin ten, and a fox or a deer or a wildcat less. [9]
- There are several methods, and in none of them is a fair chance to the deer considered. [4]
- The hunters then make their way to this retreat on snowshoes, and from the top of the banks pick off the deer at leisure with their rifles, and haul them away to market, until the enclosure is pretty much emptied. [4]
- The deer gets little credit for this eleventh-hour bravery. [4]
- Wolf groaned aloud like a sorely stricken deer, and for a moment it seemed to him that the best course would be to put an end to his own ruined life. [10]
- The boar strikes laterally and upwards; the musk- deer downwards with serious effect. [1]
- Garlands of vine, ivy and asphodel fluttered from a hundred heads; poplar, lotus, and laurel wreaths overhung their heated brows; panther-skins, deer and goatskins hung from their bare shoulders and waved in the wind as their bearers hurried onwards. [10]
- Hunting the deer in the Adirondacks is conducted in the most manly fashion. [4]
- Fred and I hunted feathered small game, the others hunted deer, squirrels, wild turkeys, and such things. [5]
- Through the sunny haze I saw the cows and deer grazing by the Serpentine, and out of the back of my eye handkerchiefs floated from the carriages banked at the gate. [9]
- Groups of people, having taken the water, were strolling about the graveled paths, sitting on the slopes overlooking the pond, or wandering up the glen to the tiny deer park. [4]
- At last he guessed it as a perfect pastoral-birds, reaping, deer, winds, sundials, cattle, shepherds, hunting. [11]
- As the snow gets deep, many deer congregate in the depths of the forest, and keep a place trodden down, which grows larger as they tramp down the snow in search of food. [4]
- They sometimes suffer from this latter quality, as when the hunter plays antics and thus attracts them; I have witnessed this with deer, and so it is with the wary chamois, and with some kinds of wild-ducks. [1]
- So get ye forth where dun deer play-- Hey ho, Dolly comes again! [11]
- An excellent case for investigation is afforded by the Deer family. [1]
- They raised their flagons and toasted each other, and Lempriere burst forth into song, in the refrain of which Buonespoir joined boisterously: "King Rufus he did hunt the deer, With a hey ho, come and kiss me, Dolly! [11]
- As the deer entered the thin woods, she saw a rabble of people start across the meadow in pursuit. [4]
- See the deer drinking on the other shore there! [11]
- To eat, to drink, to lie fallow, indifferent to what comes after, to roam like the deer, and to fight like the tiger--" He came to a dead stop in his thinking. [11]
- A deer comes down to feed upon the lily-pads. [4]
- Every day at dinner there is beef, mutton, veal, lamb, kid, pork, conie, capon, pig, or as many of these as the season yielded, besides deer and wildfowl, and fish, and sundry delicacies "wherein the sweet hand of the seafaring Portingale is not wanting. [4]
- Many species of deer, which when mature are not spotted, are whilst young covered with white spots, as are likewise some few species in the adult state. [1]
- In the Virginian deer the young are likewise spotted, and about five per cent. [1]
- They skinned the deer and cached them, and took up the journey again. [11]
- For days and days it was the subject of conversation; and the summer boarders kept their guns at hand, expecting another deer would come to be shot at. [4]
- The deer is called a timid animal, and taunted with possessing courage only when he is "at bay"; the stag will fight when he can no longer flee; and the doe will defend her young in the face of murderous enemies. [4]
- A turkey sent by Jethro for which, Mr. Merrill declared, the table would have to be strengthened; a saddle of venison--Lem Hallowell having shot a deer on the mountain two Sundays before; and mince-meat made by Amanda Hatch herself. [9]
- Away North there's buffalo and deer, and game aplenty, up along the Saskatchewan, and farther up on the Peace River. [11]
- Some resemblance it bore to the look of the hunted deer, but in the animal it is dumb, appealing. [9]
- The Indians soon began to be troublesome in their visits to the plantations, skulking about all night, hanging around the fort by day, bringing sometimes presents of deer, but given to theft of small articles, and showing jealousy of the occupation. [4]
- There were flower beds of equally barbarous design; and two iron deer, which, like the figures on Keats's Grecian urn, were ever ready poised to flee,--and yet never fled. [9]
- She would fly at them--even as she flew at the head-hunters when the Petrel was menaced; and she could run like a deer. [9]
- We sat gazing at the building, which was bathed in the early sun, at the deer and sheep grazing in the park, at the changing colours of the young leaves as the breeze swayed them. [9]
- These little paths are full of pitfalls among the roots and stones; and, nimble as the deer is, he sometimes breaks one of his slender legs in them. [4]
- Her lips trembled, and, throwing her head back as does a deer when it starts to shake off its pursuers by flight, she ran swiftly towards the riders. [11]
- Most deer, cattle, and sheep are polygamous; as are most antelopes, though some are monogamous. [1]
- Then I turned, and ran like a deer. [4]
- Wilson is the agent of the New York owner of a tract of some thirteen thousand acres of forest, including the greater portion of Mount Mitchell, a wilderness well stocked with bears and deer, and full of streams abounding in trout. [4]
- Over and over again I must tell him of the "painters" and wildcats, of deer and bear and wolf. [9]
- The sweet grass affords good picking for sheep, and besides the sheep the owner raises deer, which are destined to be chased and shot in the autumn. [4]
- But he had a whiff of deer leather about him, and shoulders and back and legs to make his fortune at Hockley in the Hole, had he lived two generations since. [9]
- I knew of a tame deer in a settlement in the edge of the forest who had the misfortune to break her leg. [4]
- The rifle was a Sharps, carrying a ball cartridge (ten to the pound),--an excellent weapon belonging to a friend of mine, who had intended, for a good many years back, to kill a deer with it. [4]
- Polly Ann cooked a piece of a deer which one of the woodsmen had with him, and the quarrel died of itself when we sat down to this and the johnny-cake. [9]
- His descendants having a like advantage, have propagated the peculiarity in a constantly increasing ratio, till they are slowly crowding the antlered deer from the region they inhabit. [1]
- Formerly sportsmen had a habit of catching the deer by the tails, and of being dragged in mere wantonness round and round the shores. [4]
- The lion has a good cause when it goes hunting for its young; the deer has a good cause when it resists the lion's leap upon its fawn. [11]
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