hare and hounds

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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

"The entire Catholic Church might play hare and hounds with the Holy Father as huntsman and the Cardinals as the whips, through Mr. Buxton's secret labyrinths."

From By What Authority? by Benson, Robert Hugh

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

You never saw anything so cheerful and spontaneous as their gait; schoolboys do not look more eagerly at hare and hounds; and you would have thought it impossible to tire such willing marchers.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 1 (of 25) by Lang, Andrew

You will see, the very first game we play at hare and hounds I shall beat you.

From My Mother's Rival Everyday Life Library No. 4 by Brame, Charlotte M.