hare and hounds

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Next in value to these natural outdoor sports come the artificial games; baseball, football, hare and hounds, lawn tennis, croquet, and hockey.

From Practical Ethics by Hyde, William De Witt

So they immediately began to play at hare and hounds.

From The Serapion Brethren, Vol. I. by Hoffmann, Ernst Theodor Wilhelm

"The entire Catholic Church might play hare and hounds with the Holy Father as huntsman and the Cardinals as the whips, through Mr. Buxton's secret labyrinths."

From By What Authority? by Benson, Robert Hugh

You never saw anything so cheerful and spontaneous as their gait; schoolboys do not look more eagerly at hare and hounds; and you would have thought it impossible to tire such willing marchers.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 1 (of 25) by Lang, Andrew

But it's good fun; it's like a paper chase, or hare and hounds.

From Under Fire For Servia by Fiske, Colonel James