hare and hounds
Example Sentences
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So they immediately began to play at hare and hounds.
From The Serapion Brethren, Vol. I. by Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann
Several of the colleges, notably Harvard and Yale, have hare and hounds in the fall—although I do not believe there were ever any inter-collegiate contests in that branch of sport.
From Harper's Round Table, July 16, 1895 by Various
They played a nerve-wracking game of hare and hounds in tricky floods of Earthlight, upon slopes and spills of broken rock, amid a goblin's garden of towering jagged spires.
From Master of the Moondog by Stanley Mullen
"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 Mrs. Henry Wood
Life had been a constant game of hare and hounds, with the pack frequently close at his heels.
From 'Me--Smith' by Gayle Porter Hoskins
