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

When the unscrupulous keeper finds a snare he sometimes puts a leveret into it, and secretes himself.

From The Confessions of a Poacher by Anonymous

She caught up the leveret into her arms, and began to caress it with an affectionate murmuring.

From Mashi and Other Stories by Tagore, Rabindranath

The leveret had learned, partly through a wonderful instinct and partly through her mother's teaching, how to act when there was cause for alarm.

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