hare and hounds

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Is this a marathon or hare and hounds?

From The Huntress by Footner, Hulbert

HISP.; the vase showing a coursing match with the hare and hounds in relief, coins, pottery, brooches, and other jewellery.

From The Cathedral Church of Peterborough A Description Of Its Fabric And A Brief History Of The Episcopal See by Sweeting, W. D. (Walter Debenham)

The Rover boys had come to Putnam Hall in the fall, and now summer sports were cast aside among the pupils, and football and hare and hounds became the rage.

From The Rover Boys at School by Stratemeyer, Edward

Little children playing hare and hounds, heedless of their steps, fell in, and came out gasping, almost choked with foul mud.

From Greene Ferne Farm by Jefferies, Richard

"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