hare and hounds

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But I found I was too lame, from the knocking about I had got in the upset vehicle, for any game of hare and hounds.

From Philip Winwood A Sketch of the Domestic History of an American Captain in the War of Independence; Embracing Events that Occurred between and during the Years 1763 and 1786, in New York and London: written by His Enemy in War, Herbert Russell, Lieutenant in the Loyalist Forces. by Stephens, Robert Neilson

The familiar hare and hounds pattern of nightmare.

From Shock Treatment by Mullen, Stanley

A fierce game of hare and hounds had been played.

From My Second Year of the War by Palmer, Frederick

"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

Once those fellows come ashore they'll play hare and hounds with us to the king's taste.

From The Master of Appleby A Novel Tale Concerning Itself in Part with the Great Struggle in the Two Carolinas; but Chiefly with the Adventures Therein of Two Gentlemen Who Loved One and the Same Lady by Lynde, Francis