hare and hounds

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The familiar hare and hounds pattern of nightmare.

From Shock Treatment by Mullen, Stanley

Is this a marathon or hare and hounds?

From The Huntress by Footner, Hulbert

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

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

But far from underrating the caged fox or anise-seed bag, hare and hounds would seem to afford the better sport.

From Patroclus and Penelope A Chat in the Saddle by Dodge, Theodore Ayrault