leveret

Example Sentences

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But, he added, capturing rare images such as a hare feeding her leveret on someone's back lawn was "just amazing".

From BBC • May 17, 2025

“C’m’ere, you dreadful little rogue! I’ve got the very thing for you. This is a leveret dagger. All young hares carry one. Here, let’s try it on you for size, young buccaneer, what, what!”

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques

He spoke in Saxon, the language of the country folk, but at the first words a figure sprang up and dodged from shrub to rock like a scared leveret.

From In the Days of the Guild by Lamprey, Louise

Unlike the offspring of the rabbit—born blind and naked in an underground nest lined with its parent's fur—the leveret was covered with down, and her eyes were open, from the hour of birth.

From Creatures of the Night A Book of Wild Life in Western Britain by Rees, Alfred Wellesley

I'm sorry at that—having rather a relish for leveret.

From Gwen Wynn by Reid, Mayne