What is "hares"

Usage examples of "hares".

There was a light tent--only one, for the Hares would fend for themselves at the up-river camp, and Lew and Galliard were no doubt already well provided.

The river was split into a dozen channels, and the Hares kept the boat adroitly in deep water, for there was never a moment when it grounded.

He watched the drifting duck and puzzled over their breed, he noted the art with which the Hares kept the boat in slack and deep water, and as the mountains came nearer he felt a feeble admiration for one peak which had the shape of Milan Cathedral.

Once the Hares had been hunted by the Crees--he thought it was the Crees, his own people, but it might have been the Dogribs.

But some days later, when the disappointed enemy had gone back to their Athabaska swamps, the passage opened again, and the Hares could return when they pleased to the Mackenzie.

Therefore the winter hunting and trapping of the Hares would be poor, and there might be a shortage of food in their camp.

He would lie in a half-stupor drawing his breath painfully for the better part of an hour, while Johnny and the Hares built the fire.

The Hares, when they came up, set down their packs and broke into a dismal howling, which seemed to be meant for a chant.

He thought that the Hares were better trackers than himself and they might find what he missed.

Lew nursing like a child one whom he had known less than a week--the Hares stolidly doing their jobs, as well fitted as Lew for this harsh world--Johnny tormented by anxiety for his brother, but uncomplainingly sticking to the main road of his duty.

Lew stripped him to the buff, and he lay on a pile of skins before the fire while one of the Hares massaged his legs and arms.

The earthen floor had been beaten flat and smooth by the Hares, whose quarters were a little annexe at one end.

The Frizels and the Indians were the human background to his life, but it was a background undifferentiated, for he never troubled to distinguish between the two Hares, and Lew, who was his daily ministrant, seemed to have absorbed the personality of Johnny.

This year the hares and rabbits has gone sick and that means that every other beast is scarce.

They had treated the Hares with friendliness, but had been as aloof from them and their like as Leithen and Galliard.