She moved beautifully, with a deer-like ease and grace. From Wordnik.com. [The Vision of Desire] Reference
SWEET TOOTH is the story Gus, a young boy born with deer-like antlers. From Wordnik.com. [Lemire to satisfy Vertigo’s Sweet Tooth | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment] Reference
She looked up at him with a sudden deer-like lift of her head, and then looked swiftly away. From Wordnik.com. [The Palace of Darkened Windows] Reference
As my team began searching the woods west of the base, we spotted several deer-like herbivores. From Wordnik.com. [365 tomorrows » 2010 » April : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day] Reference
Her eyes were her best feature: large and deer-like, although her expression was more faun than fawn. From Wordnik.com. [Sonnet of the Sphinx] Reference
An alien species of deer-like creatures invade the pacific northwest and spread out, devastating the forests. From Wordnik.com. [Story A Day: "Starlings" by Jerry Oltion] Reference
However, it has also been argued that things go the other way round, and that sika might descend from a red deer-like form. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-10-01] Reference
Three of the deer-like creatures they had hunted for food broke out of the green wall, fled past the men as if the latter was invisible. From Wordnik.com. [Voodoo Planet] Reference
Well, at least I hope they don't, because I was thinking that, to a bear, a person on a bike might be deer-like and just too fast to make it worth their while. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-06-01] Reference
Debuting in September, the comic centers on Gus, a boy born with deer-like antlers who is forced to leave his forest sanctuary and experience the outside world. From Wordnik.com. [DC confirms next weekly series, Wednesday Comics | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment] Reference
As she came out the other side, a herd of graceful deer-like animals turned from her and sped with shadowy quickness across the plain and out of her range of vision. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Federation Of The Hub]
Among its deer-like relatives, only the moose is bigger. From Wordnik.com. [Fort Frances Times Online -] Reference
The ALDERNEYS are a small race of oxen with deer-like faces. From Wordnik.com. [The Stock-Feeder's Manual the chemistry of food in relation to the breeding and feeding of live stock] Reference
And later, on a solo walk, my husband saw a deer-like animal with horns. From Wordnik.com. [Stars and Stripes] Reference
He looked at the old man with a restless appeal in his big, deer-like eyes. From Wordnik.com. [In Connection with the De Willoughby Claim] Reference
Embossed housings and "tapadero," hid the symmetry of their deer-like coursers. From Wordnik.com. [The Little Lady of Lagunitas A Franco-Californian Romance] Reference
The okapi, a deer-like creature with the long blue tongue of a giraffe and the r. From Wordnik.com. [Unexplained Mysteries] Reference
It was a six-legged, deer-like creature, much larger than anything she had as yet seen. From Wordnik.com. [Spacehounds of IPC] Reference
Sheba looked at the stranger with the soft gaze of deer-like eyes when he was presented to her. From Wordnik.com. [In Connection with the De Willoughby Claim] Reference
He turned with a rush, and one magnificent deer-like bound carried him over the four-foot gate. From Wordnik.com. [Sir Nigel] Reference
While she still knelt among the azaleas, her large deer-like eyes were suddenly dilated with terror. From Wordnik.com. [Southern Literature From 1579-1895 A comprehensive review, with copious extracts and criticisms for the use of schools and the general reader] Reference
While she still knelt among the azaleas her large, deer-like eyes were suddenly dilated with terror. From Wordnik.com. [In the Tennessee mountains,] Reference
The man who grows up in a herd, deer-like, thinking with the herd, acting with the herd, rarely amounts to anything. From Wordnik.com. [Editorials from the Hearst Newspapers] Reference
It is of about the same size as the common pig; but of more slender shape, and stands higher upon its deer-like limbs. From Wordnik.com. [Quadrupeds, What They Are and Where Found A Book of Zoology for Boys] Reference
The big Tahitian smiled and nodded, his black eyes, soft and deer-like, seeming to give the lie to so belligerent a nature. From Wordnik.com. [Adventure] Reference
"Now, Sour Sorrel," he said suddenly; and the horse left off grazing, and stood gazing at him with its great deer-like eyes. From Wordnik.com. [First in the Field A Story of New South Wales] Reference
The one-time writing-teacher of a young ladies 'seminary, with her pretty deer-like eyes and delicate fingers, shrank from it. From Wordnik.com. [The Octopus : A story of California] Reference
Officials say animal feed could introduce chronic wasting disease, a brain ailment that strikes deer-like animals, into Vermont. From Wordnik.com. [Brattleboro Reformer Most Viewed] Reference
Fifty-year old hair samples supposedly from the skullcap of a Yeti were also analyzed, and found to be from a deer-like creature. From Wordnik.com. [Foxsylvania] Reference
The British, and other Europeans, called this animal the elk because it was similar to some of the deer-like animals they had back home. From Wordnik.com. [Fort Frances Times Online -] Reference
Indeed the vicuna is more deer-like than any other animal except the antelope -- much more so than its congeners the llama, alpaca, or guanaco. From Wordnik.com. [The Hunters' Feast Conversations Around the Camp Fire] Reference
His stockings of black spun-silk defined his deer-like legs, the feet of which were shod in thick shoes, held in place by gaiters of black cloth. From Wordnik.com. [An Historical Mystery] Reference
There he goes, his tiny ears laid back along his small deer-like head, his forefeet gathered up like a penguin's flappers, and his long stout tail erect in the air. From Wordnik.com. [Forest & Frontiers] Reference
The deer-like creature, which has a long blue tongue of a giraffe, was only discovered at the beginning of the 20th century when a British explorer sent a skin home to London. From Wordnik.com. [ITN Headlines] Reference
A mantle, and her big, deer-like eyes were filled with an eager expectancy. From Wordnik.com. [The Call Of The South 1908] Reference
Gus is a boy with deer-like antlers. From Wordnik.com. [Boing Boing] Reference
Chased deer-like up his mountains, all the blood. From Wordnik.com. [Queen Mary and Harold] Reference
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