hare and hounds

Example Sentences

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"Once let 'em in, and they'd be for playing at hare and hounds over the flower-beds."

From Mildred Arkell, Volume II (of 3) A Novel by Wood, Mrs. Henry

We had met him once in the park, a horde of children dashing through the shrubbery with loud hurrahs; catch, and hare and hounds, were our favorite games.

From The Children of the World by Heyse, Paul

The familiar hare and hounds pattern of nightmare.

From Shock Treatment by Mullen, Stanley

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

"We are out playing hare and hounds, sir."

From The Rover Boys at School by Stratemeyer, Edward