Do we say hare or rabbit

hare 1329 occurrences

Fletcher senior, a mean, double-faced fellow, continued, as the saying goes, "to run with the hare and hunt with the hounds.

On each side of that which forms what we call the nose, a small hole or nook is perceived, capable of containing a pea; but does not penetrate deep, and is surrounded with black filaments, sometimes like eye-brows and eyelashes, so that the nut on that side resembles an ape or a hare.

INGREDIENTS.A hare fresh-killed, 1 lb. of lean gravy-beef, a slice of ham, 1 carrot, 2 onions, a faggot of savoury herbs, 1/4 oz. of whole black pepper, a little browned flour, 1/4 pint of port wine, the crumb of two French rolls, salt and cayenne to taste, 3 quarts of water.

Skin and paunch the hare, saving the liver and as much blood as possible.

Strain through a sieve, put the best parts of the hare in the soup, and serve.

OR, II. Proceed as above; but, instead of putting the joints of the hare in the soup, pick the meat from the bones, pound it in a mortar, and add it, with the crumb of two French rolls, to the soup.

[Illustration: HARE.

The hare feeds in the evenings, and sleeps, in its form, during the day; and, as it generally lies on the ground, its feet, both below and above, are protected with a thick covering of hair.

The ears of a young hare easily tear, and it has a narrow cleft in the lip; whilst its claws are both smooth and sharp.

And though they startled two or three rabbits and a hare in the course of their walk she never attempted to go after them, only giving them a look and then looking back to him, laughing at him as it were for his warning cry of "Puss! come in, no nonsense now!"

It was carrying a hare over its shoulder so that it was nearly all hidden from him.

The fox dropped the hare out of his mouth and stood looking at him, and then our gentleman saw at the first glance that this was not his wife.

But the fox after the first instant did not stand for his portrait you may be sure, but picked up his hare and made off like an arrow.

When he moved the fox got up and shifted his eyes, but still stood his ground, and Mr. Tebrick recognised him then for the dog-fox he had seen once before carrying a hare.

'There, then, you get me a snare and a hare by to-morrow night,' went on old Harry, 'and see if I don't nab him.

You mind to snare me a hare to-night, now!'

What matter who put the snare down, or the hare in, perwided he takes it up, man?

Oh! how the squires swore and the farmers chuckled, when the 'Parvenu' sold the Minchampstead hounds, and celebrated his 1st of September by exterminating every hare and pheasant on the estate!

There was a sudden sharp cry, the first and last voice of a hare when the weasel rises up in front of him; then silence, and the fitful rustle of his mother's pads moving steadily, swiftly over dry leaves.

Moktaques, mok-tâ'ques, the hare.

In the making of hare soup, I am informed by most excellent culinary authority, the first requisite is to catch your hare.

In the making of hare soup, I am informed by most excellent culinary authority, the first requisite is to catch your hare.

Conceding two stone, he fought a draw with the famous Billy McQuire, and afterwards, for a purse of fifty pounds, he defeated Sam Hare at the Pelican Club, London.

Even if you don't know, tell them all the same; the great art of a good cook consists in making jugged hare without hare of a

Even if you don't know, tell them all the same; the great art of a good cook consists in making jugged hare without hare of a

rabbit 1746 occurrences

I'm all ears, as the rabbit said to the weasel.

I got with the giant, who is a coward in his own right, and told him the only trouble about these great plantations in the south was the wild dogs that inhabited the mountains, that would not hesitate to attack a man if they got good and hungry, but there was no danger to him, because he was a good sprinter, and could outrun a jack rabbit.

In the ravine below John Watson's house trees cracked ominously in the frost, and not even a rabbit was stirring.

* CHAPTER XXIV THE RABBIT AND THE HEN "You had foxes up in Maine, I suppose, Mr. Wood, hadn't you?" asked Mr. Maxwell.

When we snared a rabbit, I always wanted to find it caught around the neck and strangled to death.

When they got nearer, I saw that there was a white rabbit hopping up the road, followed by a white hen.

Just as soon as the hen saw me, she fluttered in front of the rabbit, and, spreading out her wings, clucked angrily, and acted as if she would peck my eyes out if I came nearer.

The rabbit went ahead again and the hen fell behind.

The rabbit had slept on the foot of the bed.

Once when she ha$ some little chickens, a frightened rabbit, that was being chased by a dog, ran into the yard.

The rabbit belonged to a neighbor's boy, and Mr. Maxwell bought it from him.

I did not wonder that the rabbit wanted to see his master.

Perhaps they might catch sight of a rabbit to repay them for their exertions.

He rebuilt the snare and baited it with parts of a rabbit he had shot.

But there is another thing that presses so hard that you can think of nothing else, for example, if you have given away a rabbit, you regret it afterwards.

You must think of something dreadful, like a large fire, when everything is burnt up, the fortress and the soldiers in it and all historical books, andall at once you think everything backwards and you have everything; then you are so glad that you think: what difference does a rabbit make?

From behind these old houses, Mr. Allerdyke, there's a perfect rabbit-warren of alleys, courts, slums, twists, and turns!

HAUNTED The rabbit in his burrow keeps No guarded watch, in peace he sleeps; The wolf that howls in challenging night Cowers to her lair at morning light; The simplest bird entwines a nest Where she may lean her lovely breast, Couched in the silence of the bough.

a hidden rabbit cried, "With but one hair he'll steal thy heart away, Then only sorrow shall thy lattice hide: Go in!

"He's the finest rabbit dog ever was, Ma!

If your father was a black rabbit"he raised the forefinger of his left"and your mother was a white rabbit, then your male children would be"he raised all the other fingers and paused as though taken aback by the size of the family"would be blue guinea-pigs, with a tendency to club-foot and astigmatism, but your female children might only be rather clumsy tangoists with a weakness for cutting their poor relations.

And my aunt Maria is a truly good womancharities and all thatbut if you put a rabbit in her brain it would incontinently curl up and die in convulsions.

He clambered breathlessly into a coal car, and snuggled down into a corner inside a little strip of shade, and panted like a hunted rabbit.

He's got a voice softer than Kate Cumberland's, which is some soft voice, and as for his heartDoc, I've seen him get off his horse to put a wounded rabbit out of its pain!"

"If I can hold him up jest half a minute," murmured Buck to himself, "jest half a minute till I get a start, I've got a rabbit's chance of livin' out the night!" From the door of the first shed he took a heavy chain with the key in the padlock.

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