hares

But now my crop promised very well, when on a sudden I found I was in danger of losing it all again by enemies of several sorts, which it was scarce possible to keep from it; as, first the goats and wild creatures which I called hares, who, tasting the sweetness of the blade, lay in it night and day, as soon as it came up, and eat it so close, that it could get no time to shoot up into stalk.

Robinson Crusoe Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731 1895

But now my crop promised very well, when on a sudden I found I was in danger of losing it all again by enemies of several sorts, which it was scarce possible to keep from it; as, first the goats and wild creatures which I called hares, who, tasting the sweetness of the blade, lay in it night and day, as soon as it came up, and eat it so close, that it could get no time to shoot up into stalk.

Robinson Crusoe 1895

The calling hares are distributed over Asia and North America.

Quadrupeds, What They Are and Where Found A Book of Zoology for Boys Mayne Reid 1850

So hunting with the hounds and running with the hares is the order of the day and America vacillates with Condi on point.

On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008

We didn't flush any jackrabbits Steve calls them hares, which is more correct but had a good walk and a photo op.

Archive 2006-11-01 2006

We didn't flush any jackrabbits Steve calls them hares, which is more correct but had a good walk and a photo op.

Scenes from Magdalena 2006

"No. Passengers who travel without tickets are called hares with us."

The Horse-Stealers and Other Stories Anton Pavlovich Chekhov 1882

The hunt of the hares is a recurring motif in the margins of medieval manuscripts, one I discussed here some time ago.

Got Medieval 2010

However, at this epoch the weather was pretty favourable; the partridges and the hares were the only animals that had a right to complain, for the sportsmen did not give them a moment's peace; they set several fox-traps, but the suspicious animals did not let themselves be caught so easily; they would often come and eat the snare by scratching out the snow from under the trap; the doctor wished them at the devil, as he could not get them himself.

The English at the North Pole Part I of the Adventures of Captain Hatteras Jules Verne 1866

Wild populations of other herbivorous mammal species in the tundra, such as hares, squirrels, muskox, and reindeer/caribou, never reach population densities or biomass levels that can compare with peak lemming populations [103].

Effects of changes in climate and UV radiation levels on structure of arctic ecosystems in the short and long term 2009