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Definition of Deerlike
1. deer [adj] - See also: deer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Deerlike
Literary usage of Deerlike
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society of England by Royal Agricultural Society of England (1881)
"... and many a breeder now dates his taste for the breed, apart from the butter
question, from having seen the beautiful deerlike creatures in ..."
2. George Eliot's Works by George Eliot (1894)
"... marriage than before, less confident that all things are according to her
opinion, and yet with less of deerlike shyness, — more fully a human being. ..."
3. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1861)
"I like spirit in a pony. He's gentle enough with it, I'm sure." She stepped up
to the startled creature, which eyed her with its large, deerlike eyes, ..."
4. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1829)
"And lo ! all bright in hunter's green, a plume Of eagle feathers nodding as he
bounds deerlike into the glade, with bow and arrows Arm'd, but no savage ..."
5. The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine by Roy J. Friedman Mark Twain Collection (Library of Congress) (1913)
"The upper part, extraordinarily broad between the eyes, was deerlike in its gentle
serenity, but the lower part, very narrow in comparison, ..."
6. Organic Evolution: A Text Book by Richard Swann Lull (1917)
"The very large deerlike elk are adult in two years, but may continue to increase
in size for a longer period; whilst in them as in other deer, ..."
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