| 单词 | leveret |
| 例句 | “C’m’ere, you dreadful little rogue! I’ve got the very thing for you. This is a leveret dagger. All young hares carry one. Here, let’s try it on you for size, young buccaneer, what, what!” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z It will also eat snakes, and its fondness for eggs has caused it to meet with the enmity of game-preservers; and there is no doubt it occasionally attacks leverets and game-chicks. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" 2012-04-25T02:00:53.567Z But we’ve had rare sport enough, fishing in river and fishing in lake, and shooting almost whatever we came across—rabbits, leverets, pigeons, plovers, anything.” Wild Adventures in Wild Places 2011-12-12T03:00:22.477Z The gamekeepers said that Joe was a noted thief, and that he caught their birds and their leverets also, and that they would shoot him on sight. Shireen and her Friends Pages from the Life of a Persian Cat 2011-12-08T03:00:24.107Z It will pounce on the leveret and bear it screaming from the side of its mother. British Birds in their Haunts 2011-11-23T03:00:23.677Z Now, Katel had a wizened little page, no bigger than a leveret, and as black as a raven's wing. The Diamond Fairy Book 2011-11-14T03:00:18.297Z Instances are on record in which cats have reared squirrels, dogs, leverets, rats, ducks, chickens, and even small birds. Natural History in Anecdote Illustrating the nature, habits, manners and customs of animals, birds, fishes, reptiles, etc., etc., etc. 2011-11-12T03:00:32.773Z Murrams walked gingerly past him, and throwing the leveret on the hearth, proceeded to wash his face and warm his nose at the blaze. The Island of Gold A Sailor's Yarn 2011-10-03T02:00:28.483Z But if he kills a bird or a leveret, you must let me know the amount of damage, and I’ll pay. Shireen and her Friends Pages from the Life of a Persian Cat 2011-12-08T03:00:24.107Z Nor is it fastidious in its choice of food—leverets, young rabbits, mice, partridges, thrushes, blackbirds, sparrows, larks, pipits, and many others are equal favourites. British Birds in their Haunts 2011-11-23T03:00:23.677Z Polecats and weasels have to own her sway, while rabbits and leverets fall an easy prey to her prowess. The Domestic Cat 2011-09-08T02:00:21.853Z These exploits, however, brought their own punishment; for one day, when in the act of seizing a leveret, she found herself caught in a vermin trap, which deprived her of one of her hind legs. Natural History in Anecdote Illustrating the nature, habits, manners and customs of animals, birds, fishes, reptiles, etc., etc., etc. 2011-11-12T03:00:32.773Z In fact he had to, else the nice young leveret he carried would have trailed on the ground. The Island of Gold A Sailor's Yarn 2011-10-03T02:00:28.483Z It is illegal to sell or expose for sale hares or leverets in March, April, May, June and July. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 4 "G" to "Gaskell, Elizabeth" 2011-08-24T02:00:20.690Z Of all the hare, or rather leveret, for it was a young one, was the finest. Bevis The Story of a Boy 2011-08-13T02:00:28.377Z For a time in summer, leverets especially seek this kind of cover, and farmers and farm-labourers kill numbers with dog and gun—and this at a time when they are quite unfit for food. The Confessions of a Poacher 2011-08-05T02:00:44.470Z The young rabbits and leverets are of course their prey also. Wild Life in a Southern County 2011-08-04T02:00:27.037Z The leveret could hang for a few days. The Island of Gold A Sailor's Yarn 2011-10-03T02:00:28.483Z An innocent-looking basket or small sack-bag of mushrooms has before now, when turned upside down, been discovered to contain a couple of rabbits or a fine young leveret. The Gamekeeper At Home Sketches of Natural History and Rural Life 2011-08-04T02:00:21.507Z He spoke in Saxon, the language of the country folk, but at the first words a figure sprang up and dodged from shrub to rock like a scared leveret. In the Days of the Guild 2011-08-03T02:00:12.687Z When the unscrupulous keeper finds a snare he sometimes puts a leveret into it, and secretes himself. The Confessions of a Poacher 2011-08-05T02:00:44.470Z Indeed he could hardly have done otherwise, seeing that he had been caught red-handed in the act of taking one of the leverets out of the “hang,” while the other was found upon him. Dorrien of Cranston 2011-07-07T02:00:31.540Z He did so when he saw that leveret. The Island of Gold A Sailor's Yarn 2011-10-03T02:00:28.483Z In the very heat of the summer there are the young rabbits, for which there is always a sale in the towns, and the leverets, which are easily picked up by a lurcher dog. The Gamekeeper At Home Sketches of Natural History and Rural Life 2011-08-04T02:00:21.507Z In another minute, however, the hunt swept up towards him, and the dogs scenting the leveret, seized on it in its refuge, dragged it down, and killed it. Chronicles of the Schonberg-Cotta Family 2011-06-17T02:00:18.293Z Anyone, however, who has daily observed their habits, knows that there are but few months in which leverets are not born. The Confessions of a Poacher 2011-08-05T02:00:44.470Z A big leveret showed itself among the clover and fell a victim to the gun. The Prussian Terror 2011-05-04T02:00:15.170Z Ransey ran in, gave the leveret stew just a couple of stirs to keep it from burning, then threw himself into his father’s chair, stretched out his legs, and laughed till the very rafters rang. The Island of Gold A Sailor's Yarn 2011-10-03T02:00:28.483Z Here they pick up a leveret, and perhaps the dogs chop a weakly young partridge, unable to fly well, in the hedge. The Gamekeeper At Home Sketches of Natural History and Rural Life 2011-08-04T02:00:21.507Z As we were looking at him, a poor bewildered leveret flew towards him, and cowered close to his feet. Chronicles of the Schonberg-Cotta Family 2011-06-17T02:00:18.293Z They may be seen right on through summer and autumn, and last December I saw a brace of leverets a month old. The Confessions of a Poacher 2011-08-05T02:00:44.470Z "It was, your Reverence, a bit of leveret." Gwen Wynn 2011-04-09T02:00:12.230Z A leveret may also be sautéd like a chicken. Hand-Book of Practical Cookery for Ladies and Professional Cooks 2011-03-23T02:00:22.007Z “It was, your Reverence, a bit of leveret.” Gwen Wynn A Romance of the Wye 2011-02-09T03:00:45.007Z See how, as these ferocious dogs seized my poor leveret from its refuge, Satan rages against souls, and seeks to tear from their hiding-place even those already saved. Chronicles of the Schonberg-Cotta Family 2011-06-17T02:00:18.293Z When harriers hunt late in the season—as they invariably do now-a-days—many leverets are "chopped," and for every hare that goes away three are killed in the manner indicated. The Confessions of a Poacher 2011-08-05T02:00:44.470Z I'm sorry at that—having rather a relish for leveret. Gwen Wynn 2011-04-09T02:00:12.230Z Ordinary people snuggle up to God as a lost leveret in a freezing wilderness might snuggle up to a Siberian tiger…. Boon, The Mind of the Race, The Wild Asses of the Devil, and The Last Trump; Being a First Selection from the Literary Remains of George Boon, Appropriate to the Times 2011-01-16T03:00:20.530Z I’m sorry at that—having rather a relish for leveret. Gwen Wynn A Romance of the Wye 2011-02-09T03:00:45.007Z Suddenly he felt the bride, seated by his side, give a little start and a suppressed scream; a leveret, scampering into the room, had brushed across her feet. Mashi and Other Stories 2010-12-28T03:00:16.890Z Sometimes a brace of leverets are found in a tussocky grass clump, but these are more often allowed to remain than taken. The Confessions of a Poacher 2011-08-05T02:00:44.470Z Petrowitsch looked after him, with pretty much the same satisfied air that a fox displays when it sucks the blood of a leveret, and then lets it run away, as it best can. Joseph in the Snow, and The Clockmaker In Three Volumes. Vol. III. "Why are you shrieking like a dying leveret, little one?" replied a deep voice. A Captive of the Roman Eagles I suppose leverets are plentiful just now, and easily caught, since they can no longer retreat to the standing corn?” Gwen Wynn A Romance of the Wye 2011-02-09T03:00:45.007Z She caught up the leveret into her arms, and began to caress it with an affectionate murmuring. Mashi and Other Stories 2010-12-28T03:00:16.890Z Skin, draw, and cut a leveret into joints; toss in a saucepan with butter, salt, pepper, and a bouquet garni. Dressed Game and Poultry à la Mode But there is no coursing between April and October—and during the intervening months we used to have many a hunt on foot, without dogs, after the leverets. Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) If your father wanted fifteen or twenty white leverets, he could get them. Euphorion Being Studies of the Antique and the Mediaeval in the Renaissance - Vol. I Then the hare said, “Hail to thee, little Tsar Novishny; because thou hast let me go––I thought thou wouldst have torn me to pieces with thy dogs––I’ll give thee a leveret.” Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales The leveret, peeping over the grass-tops, saw the dog coming rapidly on. Creatures of the Night A Book of Wild Life in Western Britain Take a leveret, cut off the fillets and toss them in the oven in a saut�-pan in butter; when cold, slice these fillets in shreds as for Julienne vegetables. Dressed Game and Poultry à la Mode Hares, leverets, partridges, quails, young turkeys, geese, ducks, capons, pullets, fowls, chickens, pigeons, wild and tame rabbits, wild ducks, widgeon, teal, plover, larks, and pippets. The Lady's Own Cookery Book, and New Dinner-Table Directory; In Which will Be Found a Large Collection of Original Receipts. 3rd ed. To know a real leveret, it is necessary to look for a knob or small bone near the foot on its fore leg: if there be none, it is a hare. The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, Adapted to the Use of Private Families But to the leveret she said, “Obey him, as though he were thine own father.” Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales The heavy rains, it is true, greatly distressed the leveret. Creatures of the Night A Book of Wild Life in Western Britain Child of the year that round dost run Thy course, bold lover of the sun, And cheerful when thy day's begun As morning leveret. The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare Pullets, fowls, chickens, ducklings, pigeons, tame rabbits, and sometimes young leverets, guinea-fowl. The Lady's Own Cookery Book, and New Dinner-Table Directory; In Which will Be Found a Large Collection of Original Receipts. 3rd ed. In other respects, also, she is an engaging child—loving, natural, and wild as any one of her neighbours for some miles round; viz. leverets, squirrels and ring-doves. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845 Huge crickets and spiders of an almost white colour crawl along over the ground, and rats as big as leverets run by, exhibiting sharp teeth and long tails. The Mines and its Wonders The leveret was now full-grown, and Nature's mothering instincts were strong within her. Creatures of the Night A Book of Wild Life in Western Britain “My gallant Lord ride forth with glee, The nimble hare and leveret follow; All thoughts of me that rise in thee I beg thee drown in whoop and hollo.” Axel Thordson and Fair Valborg a ballad Spring fowls, and chickens, geese, ducks, turkey poults, young wild and tame rabbits, pigeons, leverets, and wheatears. The Lady's Own Cookery Book, and New Dinner-Table Directory; In Which will Be Found a Large Collection of Original Receipts. 3rd ed. In 1896 the writer presented to the Natural History Museum, at Lincoln, a fine albino specimen, also shot in Woodhall, with two small white leverets, accidentally killed in the harvest field at Langton. Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter Ye pheasants, rabbits, leverets rejoice, Your haunts no longer echo to his voice; This record of his fate, exulting view— He died worn out with vain pursuit of you. Anecdotes of Dogs And, not long after the leveret's birth, the mother's courage was tested to the utmost. Creatures of the Night A Book of Wild Life in Western Britain As he advanced, the warblers ceased; Silent the bird and scared the beast— The nightingale then ceased her lay, And the scared leveret ran away. Fables of John Gay (Somewhat Altered) Mice, small leverets, or rabbits, will be found very useful, if roughly stuffed, to place in the mouth or under the feet of birds or small beasts of prey. Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy. The children of a neighbour of mine had a leveret given them for a plaything; it was at that time about three months old. Heads and Tales : or, Anecdotes and Stories of Quadrupeds and Other Beasts, Chiefly Connected with Incidents in the Histories of More or Less Distinguished Men. If the lad failed to keep the herd together and lost so much as even one small leveret, he was to receive such a beating as would turn him black and blue. Tales of Folk and Fairies To his astonishment, when he reached the gap nothing was visible by the thorn-bush; the leverets had vanished in the ferns. Creatures of the Night A Book of Wild Life in Western Britain So much, bearing in mind the verse concerning the leveret, I own I cannot see. Emily Brontë The hare was evidently a late leveret of the previous season; the dog was scarcely more than seven months old. 'Murphy' A Message to Dog Lovers A leveret, just old enough to dispense with the maternal nutriment, should be placed with a few doe rabbits of his own age, apart from other animals. The Stock-Feeder's Manual the chemistry of food in relation to the breeding and feeding of live stock Not even one of the smallest leverets was missing. Tales of Folk and Fairies We must hurry, else the does will have left the leverets and gone to feed in the clover. Creatures of the Night A Book of Wild Life in Western Britain "Perhaps the weasel only killed the leveret for your good," he said presently. Wood Magic A Fable The Baby, you'll see, has taken to tramping about the country with gipsies; and prowling about farmers' kitchens; and catching leverets, and stuff. The Beautiful Wretch; The Pupil of Aurelius; and The Four Macnicols He now thought that he should have liked a bird for supper,—a pheasant or partridge instead of a rabbit or leveret; of which he had plenty. The Settlers at Home “But, mind you, you shall have a drubbing that will make your bones ache if you come back in the evening with even the smallest leveret missing from the herd,” said the King. Tales of Folk and Fairies All day the strange, disturbing noise continued, drawing gradually nearer the spot where the leveret lay. Creatures of the Night A Book of Wild Life in Western Britain The hares were male and female, and had their leveret between them, which latter was not above six weeks old. Olla Podrida Her owner received about the same time a leveret, which he hoped to tame by feeding it with a spoon. Stories of Animal Sagacity And here’s what I have brought,” said Roger, throwing down two rabbits and a leveret. The Settlers at Home "Oh, grandpapa!" exclaimed Phoebe, darting into the room with the leveret in her arms, and catching the last words. Jesse Cliffe There she paused, apparently perplexed, and called to her leveret. Creatures of the Night A Book of Wild Life in Western Britain At last the stoat made a spring upon the leveret. Olla Podrida One morning, however, the leveret was missing, and as it could nowhere be discovered, it was supposed to have been carried off and killed by some strange cat or dog. Stories of Animal Sagacity He took up the leveret presently, and brought it to George, that he might feel how soft the fur was. The Settlers at Home Among so many of the keenest hunters, what leveret could lie hid? The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author Finding none, they adjourned to the mossy bank where I had seen the leveret's footprints. Creatures of the Night A Book of Wild Life in Western Britain The latter showed as much prudence as courage; for so soon as he perceived that the leveret was dead, he also walked off. Olla Podrida Behind her came, gambolling merrily, and with perfect confidence, a little leveret,—the very one, it was now seen, which had disappeared. Stories of Animal Sagacity The child flinched from him at first, but was persuaded, at length, to stroke the leveret’s back, and play with its paws. The Settlers at Home They, however, when once accustomed to animal diet, will attack young game; and one was detected in the south of Scotland in the act of killing a leveret. Anecdotes of the Habits and Instinct of Animals A few weeks afterwards, when she was about to separate from her leverets, an incident occurred that might have been attended with fatal results. Creatures of the Night A Book of Wild Life in Western Britain He protested he owed the crowned martyr a forest of leverets, boars, deers, and everything else within them, for having commanded the most backward girls to dance directly. Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection It contains turtle soup, eleven kinds of fish, two entrées, a haunch of venison, poultry, ham, grouse, leverets, five sweet dishes, and two kinds of ice. Fifteen Chapters of Autobiography Rats too, Uncle Denis declared they were as big as leverets, ran by us, exhibiting their sharp teeth and extensive tails. With Axe and Rifle My friend had a little helpless leveret brought to him, which the servants fed with milk in a spoon, and about the same time his cat kittened and the young were dispatched and buried. The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 2 The leveret's adventures were destined to effect a considerable change in her habits. Creatures of the Night A Book of Wild Life in Western Britain The leveret was now served up, cut into small pieces, and covered with a rich tenacious sauce, composed of sugar, citron, and various spices. Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection Cats have been known to suckle young leverets. Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Why not here and now?'— when a leveret, that had somehow bungled its footing on the high bank above, came tumbling down, not three yards ahead of us. Foe-Farrell Not far from there, at Greccio,22 they brought to Francis a leveret that had been taken alive in a trap. Life of St. Francis of Assisi There, having lazily stretched her long, supple limbs, she played awhile with her leveret, sometimes pausing to nibble a few clover-leaves as if to direct the little one's attention towards its suitable food. Creatures of the Night A Book of Wild Life in Western Britain Stoats and weasels are common on the mound, or crossing the road to the corn; they seem more numerous in autumn, and I fear leveret and partridge are thinned by them. Nature Near London The Gypsy verses are as follows: The strength of the ox, The wit of the fox, And the leveret’s speed,— Full oft to oppose To their numerous foes, The Rommany need. George Borrow The Man and His Books There be leverets juicy and tender as a maid untried. The Black Douglas "Come to me, brother leveret," he said to it. Life of St. Francis of Assisi Here, one starry April night, in a snug “form” prepared by the mother hare, a leveret was born. Creatures of the Night A Book of Wild Life in Western Britain As it grew higher it hid the leverets and the partridge chicks. Nature Near London His mind was soon made up to the fact that the wretched leverets had vanished, and that no scenting of his keen nose could find them. The Way of the Wild Her youthful lips lay a little asunder; the heavy beauty of her hair was parted on her forehead; her childish hands sidled together like leverets in her lap. Henry Brocken His Travels and Adventures in the Rich, Strange, Scarce-Imaginable Regions of Romance The Removes:—30 roast turkeys; 6 leverets; 80 pheasants; 24 geese; 40 dishes of partridges; 15 dishes of wild fowl; 2 pea-fowls. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, November 13, 1841 Unlike the offspring of the rabbit—born blind and naked in an underground nest lined with its parent's fur—the leveret was covered with down, and her eyes were open, from the hour of birth. Creatures of the Night A Book of Wild Life in Western Britain Our gallant friend Sibthorp backed himself on the 1st of September to bag a hundred leverets in the course of the day. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, September 12, 1841 A big sloe-hare, with a leveret or two not for sale—and that doe's leverets must have been in the rushes somewhere—may, upon occasion, show unexpected fighting-powers. The Way of the Wild King: It is but a little leveret pie. Three Wonder Plays Removes:—3 roast turkeys, 1 leveret, 3 pheasants, 2 geese, 2 dishes of partridges, 1 dish of wild fowl, 2 peafowls. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, November 13, 1841 During the late summer and the early autumn, nothing occurred to endanger the leveret's life. Creatures of the Night A Book of Wild Life in Western Britain He enters into the purpose of his master, and if any one appears in sight remains quietly in the hedge with the rabbit or leveret in his mouth till a sign bids him approach. The Amateur Poacher If the leveret is split open, a bird will fly out. A History of Pantomime They who cry "Wolf!" whenever they see a leveret are not believed when Lupus comes. The Bed-Book of Happiness Removes: 23 roast turkeys, 5 leverets, 23 pheasants, 7 geese, 13 dishes of partridges, 5 ditto of wild fowl. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, November 13, 1841 Often in the quiet night, the leveret, feeling lonely or afraid, would call in a low, tremulous voice for help. Creatures of the Night A Book of Wild Life in Western Britain The strength of the ox, The wit of the fox, And the leveret’s speed,— Full oft, to oppose To their numerous foes, The Rommany need. Targum If the middle head is split open a leveret will jump out and run off. A History of Pantomime Not a thrush, not a quail, not the least little rabbit, not the smallest leveret. The Bed-Book of Happiness The instant I unclutched her, she ran to her old attendant, scared like a young leveret; and this was my first embrace of my Arab maid. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 537, March 10, 1832 The doe and her leveret had lived happily in the cornfield and the meadows above the wood. Creatures of the Night A Book of Wild Life in Western Britain The hare increases in size and weight, and has three and four leverets at a birth. The Long White Cloud Fair hand! that can on virgin paper write, Yet from the stain of ink preserve it white; Whose travel o'er that silver field does show Like track of leverets in morning snow. Poetical Works of Edmund Waller and Sir John Denham At this moment I have two pages coursing after it from side to side, like hounds behind a leveret. The White Company Your type is not a lamb, it’s a sucking leveret.’ Wuthering Heights The leveret had learned, partly through a wonderful instinct and partly through her mother's teaching, how to act when there was cause for alarm. Creatures of the Night A Book of Wild Life in Western Britain The leveret threaded its way along, almost concealed by the field, only its large ears visible. Selected Writings of Guy De Maupassant She hates the leveret that runs across the path; she hates everything that is not what she longs for. Adam Bede Aye, this is indeed a pied merlin, and with a leveret under its claws, as I am a living woman. The White Company While we were examining the spot where the antelope had stood, a leveret jumped up, and I knocked him over with my remaining barrel. Tracks of a Rolling Stone Now, three tiny leverets were “kittled,” and the nest occupied an almost bare place on the top of a ridge in the root-field where last season the succulent carrots grew. Creatures of the Night A Book of Wild Life in Western Britain Your little lad Jacob has been caught killing a leveret, Dagley: I have told Johnson to lock him up in the empty stable an hour or two, just to frighten him, you know. Middlemarch Mr. Edward, when you were a boy I saw you once take up a wounded leveret in the fields—a tiny thing. The Coryston Family A Novel He whipped it back with an oath, while she tore herself free and slipped behind Alleyne, cowering up against him like the trembling leveret who sees the falcon poising for the swoop above him. The White Company After the death of the leveret, the young dog must be coaxed and fondled, but never suffered to taste the blood. The Dog She screamed, then, grunting savagely, leaped hither and thither around the leveret, meanwhile urging it to escape into the adjacent thicket. Creatures of the Night A Book of Wild Life in Western Britain These interrogatives were addressed to the footman who had come in to say that the keeper had found one of Dagley's boys with a leveret in his hand just killed. Middlemarch But do you know, I could send you to prison for providing this excellent leveret at this time of year. The Isle of Unrest So think they, while they listen to its song, And smile and fancy and so pass along; While its low nest, moist with the dews of morn, Lies safely, with the leveret, in the corn. Poems Chiefly from Manuscript Lumber pies, with with their own Hares, leverets. hot sauce. dripping. Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 4 The thigh of this leveret is good for those that have the gout. Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 1 Elsewhere she showed the father-hawk a leveret crouching in his form; she took young rabbits to the new spring grass; the fox to the fowl, the fly to the spider, the blight to the bud. Lying Prophets As we were walking near the house, I was surprised to see a fine cat, with a pretty little leveret gambolling and frolicking by her side. Domestic Pleasures, or, the Happy Fire-side A leveret is distinguished from a hare by a knob or small bone near the foot. Enquire Within Upon Everything The Great Victorian Domestic Standby POULTRY.—Chickens, ducklings, fowls, leverets, pigeons, pullets, rabbits. The Book of Household Management Sometimes the partridges run between the ricks, and when the bats come out of the roof, leverets play in the waggon-track. The Life of the Fields Lord Glenvarloch would fain have made his escape, but, as our motto intimates, a leveret had as little chance to free herself of an experienced greyhound. The Fortunes of Nigel However, yesterday, in the dusk of the evening, they observed the cat in the garden, with something gambolling after her, which, to their great delight, they discovered to be the leveret. Domestic Pleasures, or, the Happy Fire-side Then came one of those leverets, the perfume of which Parisians have no faith in though they fill the room. The Physiology of Taste POULTRY.—Chickens, ducklings, fowls, green geese, leverets, pullets, rabbits. The Book of Household Management They heard Marvel squeal like a caught leveret, and forthwith they were clambering over the bar to his rescue. The Invisible Man Till then in every sylvan chase renown'd, With Argus, Argus, rung the woods around; With him the youth pursued the goat or fawn, Or traced the mazy leveret o'er the lawn. The Odyssey My mother always loved me the best of us, because I was such a fine leveret, with a pretty grey patch on my left ear. The Mahatma and the Hare Shall I die like a leveret, Without any resistance?—Help, help, help! The Duchess of Malfi POULTRY.—Chickens, ducklings, fowls, green geese, leverets, plovers, pullets, rabbits, turkey poults, wheatears. The Book of Household Management He is past sixty years old, and the day before ran down and caught a leveret in a turnip-field. Life and Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 You'll not find a single quail or blackbird, one little leveret, or the tiniest tit. Tartarin of Tarascon My friend had a little helpless leveret brought to him, which the servants fed with milk in a spoon, and about the same time his cat kittened and the young were dispatched and buried. The Natural History of Selborne Or, hear with joy the leveret's cry, Because it cannot bravely die? Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell Baya piped the low whine of a frightened leveret, and ran for safety into the house. Tartarin of Tarascon |
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