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

"You fellows are always starting hares," he said.

We saw hares, but, the ground being difficult running for the dogs, we caught but few.

The laws were unequal, and gave him no security; game of the most destructive kind was permitted to run at large through the fields, and yet the people were not allowed to shoot a hare or a deer upon their own grounds.

He never sits up late but when he hunts the badger, the vowed foe of his lambs; nor uses he any cruelty but when he hunts the hare; nor subtilty but when he setteth snares for the snipe or pitfalls for the blackbird; nor oppression but when, in the month of July, he goes to the next river and shears his sheep.

Give an inch, and you'll take an ell; I will not put my finger in a hole, I warrant ye: what, man! ne'er crow so fast, for a blind man may kill a hare; I have known when a plain fellow hath hurt a fencer, so I have: what!

Squire Savage, the fox-hunter, who, like Hippolitus of old, chased the wily fox and timid hare, and had never yet acknowledged the empire of beauty, was subdued by the artless sweetness of Delia.

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

They do not regard it lawful to eat the hare, and the cock, and the goose; they, however, breed them for amusement and pleasure.

Coleridge is pretty well; I have not seen, him, but hear often of him, from Allsop, who sends me hares and pheasants twice a week; I can hardly take so fast as he gives.

Yet they had brought in Arctic hares and grouse, and even a haunch of venison.

He also tells me that he once found a hare and a fox lying in their forms, within three yards of one another, in a small disused quarry.

The unfortunate king of Bohemia, when a refugee in Holland, was one day hunting; and, in the heat of the chase, he followed his dogs, which had pursued a hare, into a newly sown corn-field: he was quickly interrupted by a couple of peasants armed with pitchforks.

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

One of the popular names of the common sow-thistle (Sonchus oleraceus) is hare's-palace, from the shelter it is supposed to afford the hare.

As soon as we happened to be alone, I whispered to my brother: "I say, what if the old man is playing hare and hound with us?" "Pooh!" said Ajax.

A great point to be remembered in connection with carving hare is, that plenty of gravy should accompany each helping; otherwise this dish, which is naturally dry, will lose half its flavour, and so become a failure.

A labouring man is not allowed to knock down a hare or a partridge that spoils his garden: a country-squire keeps a pack of hounds: a lady of quality rides out with a footman behind her, on two sleek, well-fed horses.

Now so many cook their hares in the present day without even waiting to catch them first.

"Anyhow, pheasants do much less damage than ground game, and I don't think my tenants have left a hare in the dale.

I like you for liking hare.

The hawk, when he seizes the hare with one claw, catches hold of any tuft of grass or irregularity of the ground with the other; a strong leather strap is also fastened from one leg to the other, to prevent them from being pulled open or strained.

But she heard it well enough: "You don't want to buy any hares, maybe?" There was no mistaking what he had said.

There are also "rabbits" on the land (so called), but they more resemble hares in their size and habits and run.

The Hunter readily agreed; but the Horseman had no sooner got the hare in his hands than he set spurs to his horse and went off at full gallop.