hare and hounds

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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 Mullen, Stanley

"Oh, it's much too hot for hare and hounds," said Edith King.

From A Bunch of Cherries A Story of Cherry Court School by Meade, L. T.

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 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

Next in value to these natural outdoor sports come the artificial games; baseball, football, hare and hounds, lawn tennis, croquet, and hockey.

From Practical Ethics by Hyde, William De Witt