17 examples of jack-rabbit in sentences
Occasionally I scared up a flock of sage-hens or a jack-rabbit.
The next day was spent in hunting jack-rabbits, coyotes, elks, antelopes and wild turkeys.
Riding along this, we saw that many of his fruit trees had been barked and ruined by jack-rabbits.
We said something, nothing worth repeating; then Jim stood up, trembling with agitation, waving his briar pipe (which had gone out), cursing himself and the brazen skies, and the sterile soil, and the jack-rabbits, and barb- wire, and his spring, now a pool of stagnant mud.
After the usual red tape the captain sold us about two quarts of jig-juicethe kind that makes a jack-rabbit spit in a bulldog's eye.
"Good Lord, man, when we first came up here a jack-rabbit couldn't hop through this place where you're sitting, and now see what we've got!
Under ordinary circumstances I am not deficient in physical courage, but our position in front of the strange monument on the Isle of Tears left me with the valour of a jack-rabbit.
Tragedy, to him, was a first cousin of comedy; to-night he had set out to kill, and, instead of killing, he had run like a jack-rabbit for cover.
When the work of the engineers was finished a jack-rabbit could not have approached the forts without being seen.
It had come out like a herd of jack-rabbits ahead of a hound.
He must have looked like a god to her; but, for that matter, he was a sight to turn any untamed female heart, whether the owner et Belgian hare off of silver service or boiled jack-rabbit out of a coal-oil can.
I'd feel awful sad for you all if anything was to happen to me,if the Injuns got me, or I was took bad with a chill, or a jack-rabbit crept up and bit me to death, or anything.
One day, a young married man killed a jack-rabbit.
"After my eighteenth bestowin' of the honored name of Scraggs upon a person that didn't appreciate it the Mormon Church see fit to assume a few duties on me. I was put in a position of importance in a placer minin' districk inhabited by jack-rabbits, coyotes, Chinamen, and Mrs. Scraggses.
Them jack-rabbits et up my little garding patch; the coyotes gathered at nights and sung me selections from the ghost dance; the Chinamen sprung every con-cussed trick on me that a man who wears his whiskers down his back can think of; and day and night alike, Mrs. Scraggs, from one to eighteen, informed me what I'd ort to do.
He sure was a jack-rabbit for runnin'.
"Ain' no use talkin'," he added, "I can tell a hoss from a jack-rabbit any day.