单词 | rabbit |
例句 | A few days later, in an attempt to clean out her courtyard, Petra Cotes exchanged the rabbits for a cow, who two months later gave birth to triplets. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z I could see myself battered and torn, lying in the valley below, and I said to myself, “Sam Gribley, you had better get down from here like a rabbit.” My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z As fast as we removed the rabbits and pheasants new ones replaced them. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z We had a hard time there, but again I came upon hraka about three days old and no sign of holes or rabbits, so I thought there was a chance that they were yours. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The ones at the bottom were for the rabbits, my mother said, and the ones at the top were for the 1 birds. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z They made indifferent sentinels, for in many places their ranks had been broken by the rhubarb plant, and they lay with crumpled heads and listless stems, making a pathway for the rabbits. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Other cultures see the moon rabbit, a sort of sideways floppy-eared critter with its hind legs crossed. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z The nasty, smooth, clean, man-smelling peg was laid bare to the length of a rabbit’s ear, but still it did not come loose. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The young falcon was running to the rabbit with outstretched wings. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z We cut across the island to get back to the harbor, twisting and turning down the rabbit trails, until we reached the bluff overlooking the dock where we’d landed. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z There was even a picture of a cat who’d suffered nerve damage, his hocks flat on the ground, each like a broken, unlucky rabbit’s foot. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z “She wasn’t any more frightened than I was; we scared each other to death over a rabbit.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z The hutch rabbits looked at each other in bewilderment. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I saw rabbits, beavers, toads, and all sorts of colorful birds. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z I wondered what would happen if all of a sudden Phoebe’s heart beat itself out like the rabbit’s, and she fell down and died right there at school. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z “How many rabbits are in it, do you think?” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Arya was given a whole leg, since it was her rabbit. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “I’m going over to speak to that rabbit,” said Hazel. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “I don’t smoke. I promised my ration to Jeannot...Look, it’s all over the table...under the flowers now...the rabbit can’t hear you, stupid...” Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z The tired rabbits fed and basked in the sunny meadow as though they had come no further than from the bank at the edge of the nearby copse. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Aron said, “I’ve got a buck rabbit weighs fifteen pounds. I’m going to give it to my father for his birthday.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The sight of Bigwig—Bigwig of all rabbits—at the end of his tether, half unconscious, playing no part in this desperate exploit, lowered his courage still more. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Amah finally noticed me and gave me a mooncake in the shape of a rabbit. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z “The hell with the rabbits. An’ you ain’t to be trusted with no live mice. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead, he wrote, The story of your rabbit is very amusing indeed! I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z To cocoon myself in a comforter made of rabbit fur and goose down. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z When she was almost to the lodge, a great horned owl saw rabbit and falcon, sped silently out of the woods, and sank her talons into the food. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z The silken softness of the rabbit fur embraced her and she pulled the hood around her face so that only her nose was exposed. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The myxo virus, native to a wild species of Brazilian rabbit, had been observed to cause a lethal epidemic in European domestic rabbits, which are a different species. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z "I was going to give you Water- ship Down, but that's about rabbits, and not everybody wants to read about rabbits. . . ." Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z He pulled limp leaves and filled the holes left by squirrels and rabbits. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z He was half dog, half rabbit, and he had orange fur. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z “I won’t tell Laney and Hyacinth that you’re a rabbit killer if you eat this bite of stew. And no spitting it out.” The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z The other rabbits were beginning to reach the hedge as Bigwig hopped down the bank and crouched on the verge of the road. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z In fact he himself seemed composed and even detached, which was more than could be said for any other rabbit in the audience: but Pipkin was hardly to realize this. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The rabbit danced on the streets of Memphis. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z The MacNamara sisters said Angela was nothing but a rabbit and they wanted nothing to do with her till she came to her senses. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z My mother and father had taught me how to hit rabbits over the head with wine jugs, then skin them cleanly for fur vests. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Campion readily agreed to send some rabbits from Efrafa and the first party was led by none other than Captain Avens, who acted sensibly and made a very good job of it. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z For the subsequent trip through the loops of silver clockwork and tunnels they end up on a serpent and a rabbit with no complaints to be heard. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z “Yeah, sure, a rabbit toy,” said the younger man, and he turned away. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z This sort of thing does not count among fighting rabbits. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z She also had a rabbit living under the kitchen sink that he always played with when he visited. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z Did he mean that he had looked at the river and considered it as if he were a rabbit? Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z He was beside the mouth of a land drain which emptied into the ditch—a smooth, cold tunnel, narrower than a rabbit hole, but wide enough. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “You led it onto some other rabbits and it killed one of them. Is that correct?” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Expecting to be attacked at any moment, they scuttered and floundered through the undergrowth, finding here a doe and there one of their own rabbits and forcing them on. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “Come in behind it! They’re cowards! They only attack helpless rabbits.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “A rabbit got them. He must think the stems are delicious. The little devil.” Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Hazel noticed that almost all his companions seemed to have become friendly with the warren rabbits. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z They had six arrows each and would be able to fire and mark them all before they needed to frighten the rabbits back by walking about to collect. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Otherwise it was a lonely kingdom of rabbits, water birds and water rats. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z There came to be no other rabbits for a long way round Efrafa and any who might wander into the neighborhood by chance were quickly picked up. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Then he looked at Pipkin, huddled into a fold of sand, more panic-stricken and helpless than any rabbit he had ever seen. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z A hlessi is a rabbit living in the open, without a hole. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z From my parents, I got a dress of the finest white lace-trimmed lawn and a new pair of winter slippers made of rabbit fur to replace the ones I’d outgrown. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z If she must wear her floppy ears, let all the rabbits see her. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z There was a drawing by his daughter that showed a rabbit under a shining yellow sun. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Most of the rabbits had very little idea of what was happening. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Chickens and rabbits scampered underfoot, dust and ashes coiled in rampant whirlwinds. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z The direwolf bolted down the rabbit, crunching the small bones between his teeth, and padded over to him. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z They even shoot one of Captain Newport’s dogs while she is sniffing after a rabbit. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z The rabbit dove into a patch of greenbrier and Oksi flew back to her perch. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z “Whatever sort of rabbit it is, I’m going to see for myself.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I broke off a rabbit ear for each of them. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z I didn’t like thinking about predators and prey, about a rabbit thrashing in a fox’s jaws. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Drum, Duchess, and Lady glanced at the rabbit. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Seeing by my trembling hands that I am in danger of cutting myself, Isabel takes the rabbit and the knife from me. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Cal said, “They’ll be surprised we got a rabbit. If Father’s home, let’s give it to him. He likes a rabbit for his supper.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z I surprised everyone, including myself by shouting out, “But Bera-Bera is half rabbit!” Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z Curley’s wife said angrily, “Don’t you think of nothing but rabbits?” Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, Lady went over to the rabbit and stuffed herself. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z There was so much she could do for this great hunter now; prepare caribou, catch rabbits, pluck birds, and even make tools with water and the freezing air. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z To a greater extent than a human in a similar gathering, each rabbit, as he pursued his own fragment, was sensitive to the trend of the whole. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z However, the silence continued for some time, as though the other rabbits did not care to mention what they thought was wrong. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Abilene’s father would then turn in the direction of Edward’s ears and speak slowly, repeating what he had just said for the benefit of the china rabbit. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z The tops of hills are shaved off to make level warrens for the rabbits of the present. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z He drew the arrow through the rabbit so that the white feathers were dark red with heart blood. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z I was only fifty yards from the road, when suddenly a rabbit exploded from underneath my feet and I leaped backward in surprise and fear. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z I finish off the loaf from District 11 and the last of the rabbit. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z There were rabbits and squirrels all over the place, and if they had to they could make it a year or two, and it felt wrong. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z The rabbit speaks again, but as he does, his voice changes. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z She had tessered, fallen through the rabbit hole, crossed the ice bridge into the unknown world beyond. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z He jumped a great fallen log, ducked under low-hanging branches, and, like a rabbit, made sudden changes in direction. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z Suddenly I found there was another rabbit with me. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I ate the second rabbit I caught, and the third. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z In a flash, game in her talons, Frightful and the rabbit were in the air. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Woundwort, on the other hand, had taken his rabbits into the ditch and then made use of it to get them down to the water meadow, unexposed to further attack from Kehaar. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z When the food's cooked, I pack most of it up, leaving us each a rabbit's leg to eat as we walk. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z At every halt yet another rabbit was not to be found and no one could remember seeing what had happened to him. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yes, I think that the rabbit must hear the story.” The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z Chestnutt grinned, but when she looked at Ayanna and saw the anger simmering on her face, the rabbit’s smile quickly faded. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z “Do you know the penalty for poaching?” he said as he worked his dagger skillfully to skin the rabbit. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z The farmers ended up losing as much, or more, of their crop to rodents as they had lost to the rabbits. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z It was after midday when we began the walk back to the camp with a couple of rabbits and one patchy-furred squirrel for lunch before an afternoon march to the next bunking. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z Mom grabs me by my wrist, the rabbit foot flying away from me like some crazed infant squirrel, and she flings me across the room, the coffee table dancing behind us. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z Although it was almost directly downwind and therefore must be able to smell them, it did not look as though it were particularly interested in rabbits. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z To ask his advice about a damaged rabbit and discuss it with him would be very grown-up. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z She was hungry, and Mole, she sensed, was going hunting in the meadow where the rabbits and pheasants lived. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Abra said, “What would I want with a dirty old rabbit all covered with blood?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z It is easy to forget about a boat when you have a rabbit mooncake in your hand. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z The rabbit spent the day hanging by his ears, baking in the hot sun, watching the old woman and Bryce weed and hoe the garden. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z Like the hens, the rabbits spend part of their time in portable rabbit hutches in the pastures. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z But now, as more rabbits began to appear in ones and twos, he realized that he had made a mistake. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The rabbit who was telling it was nowhere near as good as Dandelion, but I listened all the same, just for something to do. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I had learned from rabbits to kick backward. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The queen of the rabbits could not be seen without her floppy ears. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “Says I can’t tend no rabbits if I talk to you or anything.” Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z Poisonous orange snails were oozing slowly up the side of their glass tank, and a fat white rabbit kept changing into a silk top hat and back again with a loud popping noise. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z I use my knife to cut open the rabbit’s abdomen and clean out its entrails, and to peel the rabbit’s skin away from the meat. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z The going would be troublesome in the wet, and anyway no self-respecting rabbit could leave without a forage round the sheds. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z What you have to look for is that shiny black dot—the rabbit’s eye. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Nevertheless, even in a crowded warren, visitors in the form of young rabbits seeking desirable dry quarters may be tolerated...and if powerful enough they may obtain and hold a place. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Soon after, Hazel and his rabbits, below in the Honeycomb, heard the first sounds of scratching above. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “We can’t stay and wait for Bigwig in a place like this. It’s unnatural for rabbits.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yes,” replied the other rabbit; and then added, “We saw you come.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z There’s something about looking at the picture of the turtle and the rabbit on the throttle that puts everything in perspective. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a very risky one, but I thought there was a chance that it might work, simply because every rabbit in Efrafa usually does what he’s told without question. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s when someone rents Bunny for an hour to put with their lady rabbit to get babies.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z I mean, I was talking to a giant rabbit at this moment…. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z ‘Do you remember that bit of rabbit, Mr. Frodo?’ he said. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z The mouse became nervous and, after the manner of his kind, began to say what he thought the rabbits would like to hear. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The rabbits crept into the shade, under any cover that offered. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z How could anyone go this far down the rabbit hole without realizing they needed help? Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z The small rabbit came closer to his companion, lolloping on long hind legs. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The rabbit was a shade underdone, but tasted wonderful. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “I ran away when I heard you coming,” replied the other rabbit. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The deer and the rabbits would be shy and swift. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m sure you do,” said Cowslip, looking round at the mud-stained, bedraggled rabbits with an air of being too polite to comment. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “But surely you know how to get rid of them? I thought all rabbits knew that.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “Kehaar,” he said, “I want to be certain. Can we get to the rabbits’ town without bothering about the iron road and the river?” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z A few minutes later there was not a rabbit to be seen on the down. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Down the rabbit hole to another place I go! Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z At that moment a rabbit spoke from behind him. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Edward felt quite strongly that they were not the whiskers of a rabbit. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z Shukumar had disassembled it all before bringing Shoba back from the hospital, scraping off the rabbits and ducks with a spatula. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z A tall man with the floppy ears of a rabbit and a mane of walnut-brown hair turns to give Vivi a dirty look. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z “And he smell like blood,” Amari said as she examined the rabbit. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Every rabbit would need to feel that he was close to the General; and if he felt himself one of a picked band as well, that would be all to the good. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Except it’s a white cloud’s fault, not a rabbit hole’s. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z Fadi stepped out of the boys’ bathroom and froze like a rabbit hearing a hawk. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z Cat-like, it was fascinated by the rabbits and could not leave them alone, but it evidently had no stomach for another fight and as they crossed the yard it stayed where it was. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z And remember, if we come upon any strange rabbits, you’re to attack them at once and ask questions afterward.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Maybe a rabbit, or a cat, or a groundhog. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z Out stepped a tiny pink shoe, a foot soft as a rabbit’s ear, then the thick ankle, a flutter of hips, fuchsia roses and green perfume. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z Behind him the rabbits stirred in the bush. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z I smoked fish and rabbit, dug wild onions by the pouchful, and raced September for her crop. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z In no time, I have the rabbits and squirrel roasting, the roots, wrapped in leaves, baking in the coals. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z It is actually more of a scream, the sound a rabbit makes when it’s been caught by an eagle. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z I set my bookbag by the door and slide the rabbit foot deep within my new mesh pockets, keeping it close by for good luck. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z And every morning, when the rabbit wasn't caught, she'd retie that snare, same as she did the day before. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z Not one of Hazel’s rabbits had ever played any part in real digging. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The first thing was to replace the Owsla losses—and preferably with rabbits who knew how to deal ruthlessly with any further signs of dissension. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z This rabbit had very dark fur—almost black. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z It was the biggest, fattest rabbit any of them had ever seen. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z The officer looks confused, like someone's just pulled a rabbit out of a paper bag. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z They augmented their diet with fish caught from the river, and Tally roasted a rabbit on a fire she’d built herself. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Although Bigwig might succeed in talking over one or two, most of the rabbits they could expect to join them would not come from the Owsla. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Chestnutt grinned at me, and I watched her sketch a picture of a fox and a tiny rabbit walking side by side. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z Unfortunately for the farmers, the death rate then dropped in the second year to 90 percent and eventually to 25 percent, frustrating hopes of eradicating rabbits completely from Australia. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z At Gachet’s, Vincent takes his godson around the yard, introducing him to the eight cats, three dogs, hens, rabbits, ducks, and pigeons. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z It is true that young rabbits are great migrants and capable of journeying for miles, but they do not take to it readily. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Once, oh marvelous once, there was a rabbit who found his way home. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z And since neither of us wants to spiral down the rabbit hole of this particular madness, we excuse ourselves and go outside. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z To him and his companions, sensing and acting was second nature; but these rabbits had never had to act to save their lives or even to find a meal. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The shadowy recesses of the strange burrow seemed full of whispering, malignant ghosts and he recognized the forgotten voices of rabbits done to death months since in the ditches of Efrafa. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “You ever seen a rabbit dance?” he said. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z Clad as serving girls in layers of drab grey roughspun, they wore brown woolen cloaks lined with white rabbit fur. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z It was heavy and a pain to carry but neither of us knew whether he could manage for himself catching squirrels and rabbits. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z The rabbit collected his scribbled notes and began sorting them without another word. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z Two or three more of the rabbits emerged from the wood. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Nellie held the rabbit out in front of her and looked him over from tip to toe. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z “Especially since no one’s dug up anything yet but rabbit bones and an old ax head.” Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z Slowly, as if I were a little rabbit that could be easily startled, she touched her lips to my smooth cheek in a soft Mama kiss. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z Amari found a sharp rock and was able to skin the rabbit, careful to save any part of it that might be helpful on their journey. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z In the book, the rabbits had come across this warren—this community—that accepted food handouts from humans in exchange for accepting that some of them would be killed by the same humans in return. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z “You met one of the Left Flank Owsla—a rabbit named Groundsel.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z But most rabbits avoid swimming, and certainly an exhausted rabbit could not swim the Enborne. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z This destructive effect, known since 1948, was at first believed to be confined to dogs, because it was not revealed in such experimental animals as monkeys, rats, or rabbits. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Sam had trained her to hunt the rabbits and pheasants that lived in the abandoned fields on their mountain. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Then all four rabbits sat as though transfixed by the sudden, blinding light that poured over them like a cloudburst. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z On that same day Frightful caught a rabbit in the meadow. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z “I left three of our rabbits in different places to mark the way back,” he explained to Bigwig. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z He looked round at the other rabbits, who were all staring either at Bigwig or at himself. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z He paused and looked across the down, as though still seeking the bleeding rabbit who had vanished in the half-light. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Deer in the Northeast; alligators in the Everglades; buffalo in the prairies; grasshoppers in the Great Basin; rabbits in California; moose in Alaska: all were pursued by fire. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Every afternoon he could be seen returning on horseback, with his hunting dogs and his double-barreled shotgun and a string of rabbits hanging from his saddle. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z I jammed the lawn mower into rabbit gear and went storming up the driveway, screeching to a stop in front of Zed. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z It therefore poisons all life with which it comes in contact: the cat beloved of some family, the farmer’s cattle, the rabbit in the field, and the horned lark out of the sky. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z She loved the idea of falling down a rabbit hole, of plummeting into something that she wasn’t expecting, and of course, the idea that a small white rabbit could wear a tiny waistcoat and glasses. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z “I got it figured out. We can make some money on them rabbits if we go about it right.” Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z Blackberry was about to reply when another rabbit came noisily through the thick dog’s mercury in the wood, blundered down into the brambles and pushed his way up from the ditch. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The little rabbit shivered violently, as if she was seconds from falling apart—literally. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z The trees started to spin as I looked at the bloody rabbits. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z Human beings, on occasions of this kind, are usually full of questions, but the rabbits expressed their delight simply by proving to themselves through their senses that this was really Hazel-rah. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z A couple of days ago, Shay had explained that the plump meat in the stew was rabbit. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Holly struggled free of Bigwig and crouched on his haunches, scuffling his front paws and growling, as rabbits will when angry. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Every dry spot among the undergrowth seemed to be crowded with exhausted, sleeping rabbits. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The witch covered him with leaves and turned to Lyra, who was still gnawing the rabbit. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z And in that circular passageway, a white rabbit stood like a jade statue. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z In the low bank behind him were three rabbit holes. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z In the faint patch of light below the ragged hole in the roof, a rabbit was standing—no Efrafan, a rabbit unknown to the General. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Libby’s right; it is totally suspicious that the rabbit foot is missing from my room. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z There were islands with little birds on them like rabbits, but their noses were rainbows. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z How long before the coyotes figured out a strategy to dislodge the rabbit? This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Dead muskrats, were found in the treated areas, dead rabbits in the fields. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “Okay,” she said to the jumping rabbit, “lead the way.” Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z They walked a short distance eastward from the road and Lucy set the rabbit down. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z There is a rabbit saying, “In the warren, more stories than passages”; and a rabbit can no more refuse to tell a story than an Irishman can refuse to fight. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z His tail, too, was made of real rabbit fur and was fluffy and soft and well shaped. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z The butcher would buy my rabbits but not squirrels. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z “You wanted me to tell you; well, I told you. That’s a woman, always. You want to know something, then you run like a rabbit.” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z The smell of fried chicken cooking and the excitement of playing with the pet rabbit under the sink increased his pace. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z I let him smell the couch where I sleep and crawl under the front steps to sniff out the mole lives under there, follow him all over creation when he takes out after a rabbit. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z In it were larks and a rabbit seasoned with herbs and colored yellow with saffron. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z But Momma made sure we got real leather gloves with real rabbit’s fur on the inside of them, and I’m not bragging, but we got to go through two pairs a year each! The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z I have no magic beads, no water gourd sight, no rabbit that will jump in the fire when I’m hungry. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z When he proclaimed the rabbit cooked, he tore it apart, and gave me some. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z At about thirty yards’ distance the fox saw the approaching rabbit. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z But when the last nail was out and he fell forward into Bryce’s arms, the rabbit felt a rush of relief, and the feeling of relief was followed by one of joy. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z The other rabbit made no reply, but his look was not that of an enemy. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z They met no trouble and were soon feeding in the grass at the edge of the wheatfield, the very picture of rabbits in an evening landscape. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z She waves her hands around her head as if a rabbit is going to pop out of her ears. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Frightful ate old frozen muskrat during those days, We couldn’t kick up a rabbit or even a mouse. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Even her snares, set so cleverly just where a rabbit usually wanted to and needed to hop, yielded almost none at all. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z When Dustfinger caught a rabbit he didn’t take it out of the trap until he was quite sure the poor thing had stopped wriggling. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z We walk quietly through the white forest, stalking rabbits. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z He knows everything about rabbits: but all the same, Hazel lived longer than that. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Travis received a book on raising rabbits for fun and profit and a new curry comb. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z The Honeycomb was as good as finished—though rabbits are not methodical and are never really certain when anything is finished—and the surrounding burrows and runs were taking shape. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Some of the children were playing on the ground with clay toys of boys, buffalo, monkeys, and rabbits while others were being served tea by the father. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z You think God favors the dog over the rabbit, son?” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z She thought she saw a doe, her huge, glossy eyes peeking out from behind an evergreen, but then it was only the vanishing tail of a bounding rabbit, leaving long, trailing pawprints in the snow. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z “That Vilthuril’s a beautiful doe. I’d like a chance to get to know her better. After all, it’s not natural to rabbits, is it?—on and on day after day.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z As soon as I said those names this rabbit turned to the others and cried, ‘I knew it! Tear them to pieces!’ Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “I always think these traditional stories retain a lot of charm,” said another of the rabbits, “especially when they’re told in the real, old-fashioned spirit.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Neither Boy21 nor I say a word, and I have to admit that it feels good not being the only rabbit in the building. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Blackavar hung on and Groundsel—a heavy rabbit, like all the Efrafan officers—dragged him forward a short distance before he could rid himself of his grip. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z It was fascinating to think about all the things you could learn there: Galileo’s acceleration experiment, the dissection of rabbits, and making materials change state in a test tube. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z There were no raccoons or skunks about in the snow, but the mice, the weasels, the mink, the foxes, the shrews, the cottontail rabbits were all busier than Coney Island in July. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Hazel began to speak about the life of the downs and the excitement and freedom enjoyed by wild rabbits. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z One day he saw a seven-year-old boy hosing a terrified rabbit in its cage and laughing. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z On top of the tank were two levers; the first was next to pictures of a rabbit and a turtle. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z He scuttered through the warm bilgewater to the other end and pushed his way up among the wet, crowded rabbits. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Turning her back, she began to skin the rabbit. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z They were her fancy ones, trimmed at the ankle with a specially prepared ruff of white rabbit fur. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z “A rabbit called Cowslip offered us shelter here,” said Hazel. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yes,” I shrugged, “Leper. Leper’s not the little rabbit we used to know any more.” A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Whenever one of the rabbits inside stood up and rested its forepaws on the upper part of the wire, the door pivoted lightly on the axis of the staple and the lower hinge. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z For this one I’d wear pink feathers, purple stars, if that were what he wanted; or anything else, even the tail of a rabbit. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z A sandy-brown rabbit reclined on his back beneath the shade of a giant mushroom cap. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z “The Mark that has the evening silflay, sir,” began the rabbit. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “You ever before in your life seen a rabbit dance?” The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z Even if it had only been a rabbit. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z Although kestrels seldom prey on anything bigger than a rat, they will sometimes attack young rabbits. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I cracked walnuts, hickory nuts, and beechnuts, then began a pair of deer-hide moccasins to be lined with rabbit fur for Bando’s present. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z The giant rabbit looked at me and frowned. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z So it is alarming, upon returning to the upper middle class from a sojourn, however artificial and temporary, among the poor, to find the rabbit hole close so suddenly and completely behind me. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z It had not occurred to any of the rabbits that they were floating beside the path up which they had come earlier that evening before the storm broke. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “Okay, this is it,” he said, and headed for the rabbit hutch. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z She practiced throwing it at a rabbit skin. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The horseshoe crab is a primitive fossil of a beast, ancient and uncitified, but he is just as vulnerable to disorganization by endotoxin as a rabbit or a man. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The problem was that the myxo virus evolved to serve its own interests, which differed from ours as well as from those of the rabbits. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “Frightful’s little falcons are in the lodge. I’ll get one of the rabbits and let it go in front of the lodge.” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Now it was leaping and hopping among the grass tussocks, striking at the two rabbits with terrible darts of its head. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “What, the rabbits? The birds? Wouldn’t that be against the rules?” Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z It isn’t that I don’t like fried rabbit. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Most of the rabbits were feeding near the Mark holes, which were close beside the field, concealed among the trees and undergrowth bordering a lonely bridle path. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “I am offering you far more than that,” the rabbit says. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z For rabbits, winter remains what it was for men in the middle ages—hard, but bearable by the resourceful and not altogether without compensations. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “You might. Listen, remember the rabbit or whatever it was that you said ran across the road in front of you?” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z “Bigwig was right when he said he wasn’t like a rabbit at all,” said Holly. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z For that matter, Odysseus himself might have borrowed a trick or two from the rabbit hero, for he is very old and was never at a loss for a trick to deceive his enemies. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Pan, no longer a mole but now a rabbit, emerged from the blankets, very close to Lyra, for safety, but very curious. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z “George, how long’s it gonna be till we get that little place an’ live on the fatta the lan’—an’ rabbits?” Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z “You said they put prisoners in the rabbit pen? Where’d the rabbits go?” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z By sunset the whole party—twenty rabbits all told—had made their way up the length of the beech hanger and reached the warren. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “He smells like a big, fat rabbit to me, with a lot of carrots inside. But I’ll come with you.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z We raised rabbits, but sold them to whites. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z A stuffed rabbit dangled from her massive hand. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z The three rabbits were returning down the bank of the stream and had not yet seen Hazel and the others. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I stole eggs from nests, caught fish in nets, sometimes managed to shoot a squirrel or rabbit for stew, and gathered the various plants that sprung up beneath my feet. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z “I looked that rabbit over good, Marty, and you won’t find any buckshot in that thigh,” Dad says, buttering his bread. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Matty obeyed, tilting into the pan the bowl of broth in which the rabbit had been boiled earlier. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z Sitting alone in the grass, he waited until the last rabbit had disappeared. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z He’d had little luck hunting—the area was teeming with mice and rabbits, but they scampered from Pax’s clumsy attempts to catch them. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Nearly all warrens have an Owsla, or group of strong or clever rabbits—second-year or older—surrounding the Chief Rabbit and his doe and exercising authority. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I put on my rabbit slippers and pulled my wool dressing gown over my nightie. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z “Lookie what I got,” he says, and holds up Uncle Basil’s key chain, stupid rabbit’s foot and all. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z “When you were little, the skin on your stomach peeled off like it had been burned. You looked like a skinned rabbit,” she said worriedly. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z They became very quick at climbing rocks, and even the youngest could scamper up a face of rock almost as quickly as any rock rabbit. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z When Boy21 finishes the sandwich his grandmother made him, he says, “We are not rabbits.” Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z That’s how rabbits survive; they freeze in the presence of predators. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z But nothing more had been seen of the strange rabbit; and the loss of Mallow, with nothing to show for it, had upset and demoralized the Owsla a good deal. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Toby put his face close to the rabbit. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z As he stared, one of the rabbits came close to the wire, looked out and saw him. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Holly, gaunt, his staring pelt full of goose grass and fragments of burdock, was talking with the three hutch rabbits and reassuring them as best he could. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’ll take the wild rabbit,” I say, then add, “have you ever tried it on a bed of daylily buds?” On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z I motion to the mountain ahead where the rabbit leads. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Lennie said, “Maybe if I took this pup out and throwed him away George wouldn’t never know. An’ then I could tend the rabbits without no trouble.” Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z Well, the old men would just sit and wait in hiding somewhere for the rabbit to come back, then get their shots at him. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Someone had taken her rabbit in the night. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z He would allow no rabbit to leave the warren. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “Well, Fiver’s the rabbit for that,” replied Hazel. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Other rabbits were making their way along the run and Strawberry spoke to several of them, more than once remarking that he would enjoy taking their new friends across the field. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Later that night, Jack came and sat next to Bull and asked if he could borrow the rabbit. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z Allen thoughtfully tapped the throttle, where the rabbit and the turtle indicated the two speeds. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z “Folks even bring ’em up here in the hills and let ’em out, figure they can live on rats and rabbits. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z What they heard was the voice of a rabbit, but changed out of all recognition. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z His rabbit dæmon trembled at his feet, no use at all: she could at least have kept watch for the poor man, Lord Roke thought. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z He picked up the rabbit parts from the table, and as always, Matty was amazed at how sure his hands were, how he knew just where things had been left. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z That was the first time I'd heard “heart attack” and I thought it meant your heart suddenly went crazy and attacked the rest of your body, like a ferret down a rabbit warren. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z Then he offered to keep watch himself until the evening and Hazel, greatly relieved, at once told the rabbits to sleep. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Why was there no warmth of rabbit bodies lying close together? Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z But many rabbits go all their lives without seeing a fox and probably only a few actually fall victim to an enemy who smells strongly and cannot run as fast as they can. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z By this time a considerable number of rabbits was coming up the slope. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I might as well be a greased rabbit. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z “The people who come in here want dolls, not rabbits. They want baby dolls or elegant dolls such as myself, dolls with pretty dresses, dolls with eyes that open and close.” The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z The holes are all hidden and the Owsla have every rabbit in the place under orders. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I cut loose the rabbit and walked back to the pool. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Grandfather could snare a rabbit, and I’d cook it over a small fire. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z They had been following it but had not yet sighted their quarry when suddenly a strange rabbit had burst in upon them as they were nearing the edge of some woodland. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I finally coaxed Moody Blue to drop it, and when I picked up the rabbit, its heart was beating faster than anything. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z At one point, I hear a noise and pull my knife, thinking I may have to defend myself, but I've only startled a rabbit. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Then his mother had placed the rabbit’s body in his cupped palms and gone to get a shovel. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z The creature was almost the size of a rabbit, but much thinner, with a bushy tail now draped over Dustfinger's chest like a fur collar. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z A few minutes later the rabbits had crossed the cart track and vanished into the copse beyond. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The fields glowed with a gray frost-like light and in the dew the tracks of rabbits and of field mice stood out sharply. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z Bull was always careful to position the rabbit so that he was not looking down or up, but was, instead, forever looking behind him, at the road they had just traveled. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z Instead of a jacket, he was wearing a long fur vest sewn with gray rabbit pelts. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z One warm afternoon while I fed the rabbits they talked, and I listened. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Stupefied with the shock, unable even to move, the sodden rabbits crouched inert, almost pinned to the earth by the rain. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z As several of the rabbits began to silflay, attracted by the mild June night and the full moon, he asked Blackberry to wait. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Silver moonlight shimmered through a window, revealing a gray stuffed rabbit lying on a step above. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z In the dark he could hear and smell the rustling and crowding of rabbits—both bucks and does—ahead of him. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z He thought if he worked at it and practiced he might hit one of the larger rabbits with an arrow or a spear—never the small ones or the squirrels. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z The conies had hundreds of buries under these trees, so close together that the problem was not to find a rabbit, but to find a rabbit far enough away from its hole. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z I spot some water plants with edible roots and make a small meal with my last piece of rabbit. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z But he was there, a rabbit at the table. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z There was no room for two rabbits to pass. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a struggle, like someone wrestling with something heavy, then a sharp intake of breath, and the smallest rabbit I’d ever seen hopped onto my bed. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z “Ever’ six weeks or so,” George continued, “them does would throw a litter so we’d have plenty rabbits to eat an’ to sell. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z Indeed, Ragwort, the most unimaginative rabbit alive, had actually heard it underground. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z He scared up rabbits, barked at terrapins, caught gnats and flies in his mouth, and every few minutes looked back to be sure I was still coming along behind. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z The rabbits had gone only a short distance through the wood when they sensed that they were already near the river. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I can put your rabbit back together again. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z But in fighting a rabbit of Bigwig’s strength and courage it proved a mistake. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s made of rabbit skin, and she’s had it for seventeen years. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z Other rabbits began to appear through the rain: Acorn, clearly frightened, but determined not to run; Dandelion encouraging Pipkin; Speedwell and Hawkbit making toward Kehaar—the only creature visible above the ground haze. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z As he went among his rabbits, looking them over and encouraging them, Woundwort considered the situation. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The rabbit had elaborate scrollwork making up its middle, and bells hung off its feet. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z Now he went back and forth between rabbits and fbolbirds when he could, filling in with fish in the middle. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z Other patrols had been sent out at once, but all that they had established was that the rabbits from the north had crossed the iron road and disappeared southward. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Two other rabbits were edging off through the grass. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z When she saw Edward, she dropped the apron and clapped her hands together and said, “Oh, Lawrence, you brung me a rabbit.” The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z No one could figure what they were or where they had come from, so eventually Annie Broadbeam threw them into her cooking fire and enjoyed a hot rabbit stew on a cool autumn night. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Hyzenthlay had hardly disappeared down the run when Bigwig heard another rabbit approaching from the opposite direction. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes they even fished in the Big Buckwater River, or set traps in the woods, and thus caught rabbits or squirrels and added a little variety to their food. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z He beckons me with his hand and jumps up, scurrying toward the door just like the white rabbit. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Swiftly I made piles of cracked nuts, smoked rabbit, and crayfish. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z I took out my small knife and remembered how Laclith had shown me to dress a rabbit. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Most rabbits in his situation, lacking almost all experience of wild life, would have fallen victim at once to the elil: but not Woundwort. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Ahead of us, Laleh wiggled out of Babou’s grasp and rabbited through a crumpled stone archway that had stood for thousands of years. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z And that’s when I see it, hanging from a wire ring looped into a zipper: my lucky rabbit foot from Libby. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z He lay down and watched her skin the rabbit. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I lit my candle, took out the rabbit and squirrel hides I had been saving, and began rubbing and kneading them to softness. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z It was crowded, and as the rain began to fall more rabbits came down the runs. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z These were the biggest and healthiest rabbits he had ever met. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Fern whispered in a weak voice, “She hunts deer? And rabbits?” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z That alone, she thought, was a sign she was headed down a rabbit hole. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z My fists mean nothing to him, little rabbit paws thumping harmlessly. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z Minli followed the rabbit through the round opening into a white courtyard and over a polished stone bridge that seemed to grow from the ground. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z Suddenly down the trail, ears back, feet flying, came the rabbit. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The rabbit rice bowl he had taken from their hut! When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z Reassured by his periodic whistles, I allow myself to drift farther away, and soon have two rabbits and a fat squirrel to show for it. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z His rabbits’ lives were in danger because of Hufsa—to say nothing of all the lettuces and cabbages they were missing. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I'm about to panic when I remember the rabbit I startled earlier today. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z David used to scold Faro for pointing rabbits, but I did not. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z I thought about a baby rabbit that our dog, Moody Blue, caught and carried around—she was not actually lunching on the rabbit, just playing. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z Then the other rabbit, still keeping his grip under Woundwort’s shoulder, thrust upward with his hind legs braced against the floor of the trench. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I counted the shaven rabbits; they numbered seventeen. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes a good storyteller may find a place; or a seer, or intuitive rabbit. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z A group of small children were to be presented in a play about buttercups and daisies and bunny rabbits. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z They went to Tijuana for a couple days to do some study about these wild rabbits they got down there. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z “Anyhow, it’ll suit us. You stay outside the farm in a safe place and we’ll bring the rabbits out to you: then you can take over and get us all away.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The rabbit had been a scrawny thing, but as it cooked it smelled like a king's feast. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Then he gives up when he sees I’m not going to shoot that rabbit no way. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z “It was only a rabbit,” Fox said softly. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z And then, suddenly, the great, wide net of a fisherman reached out and grabbed the rabbit. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z “He’s not like a rabbit at all,” he thought. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Once, there was a China rabbit who was loved by a little girl. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z Still, some of those plants were edible, and they found rabbits that made a tasty meal, and there was no shortage of water. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “A rabbit. Saw a groundhog but didn’t get it. That new dog hadn’t run off, he would’ve got it for me. He wasn’t such a good hunting dog, I would have shot him by now.” Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Back in the 1930s, warden Lewis Lawes had upset the inmate population by prohibiting the popular practice of tending rabbits. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Everyone else was on the ground, handcuffed and under guard, most of them gathered near the rabbit pen. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z A fox trying to catch a rabbit usually creeps upwind under cover—perhaps through a patch of woodland to the edge. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The dead rabbit, which had seemed, at first, such a clean thing, was now wholly revolting, defiled and contaminating. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z One respect in which rabbits’ lives are less complicated than those of humans is that they are not ashamed to use force. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Then an owl hooted softly, a field mouse screamed, a rabbit thumped, a dog-fox barked his deep, single lion’s cough, and a bat twittered above their heads. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Then, horribly clear across the darkening, empty combe, there came the agonizing squeal of a stricken rabbit. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z You could see the occasional dash or scuttle of a rabbit or a vole or a weasel as it slipped out of the undergrowth and across the path. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z But just then Minli’s thoughts were interrupted by the rabbit, which had stopped suddenly. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z A rabbit leapt across my path, and I caught a glimpse of the albino deer in the field. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z Hazel could recall Hawkbit—a rather slow, stupid rabbit whose company for five snowbound days underground had been distinctly tedious. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I dashed upstairs and chose a key ring Uncle Brian gave me one time, of a rabbit in a black bow tie. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z When they reached the ditch, all the other rabbits were squatting together, watching their approach. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z She finished cooking the rabbit and put the whole thing in the warmer part of the black stove. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z The rabbits made their way back to the Honeycomb. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z With stamping and flashing of tails every rabbit on the slope dashed for cover. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The rabbit slumped over on his side and his feet ran and scampered in the air for a moment before he was still. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z He shot and cooked rabbits and birds, but he could also eat scorpions, snakes, cockroaches, worms, slugs, beetles, and crickets. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I was so startled and frightened that I jumped like a wounded rabbit, but he made no move to catch me. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z He was trotting down the rabbit trail with a leg of caribou in his mouth. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Little rabbit heart leaps out of my chest and scampers across the paper, leaving bloody footprints on my roots. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z “He’s not a rabbit, Mommy,” Robin said as she wheeled her baby buggy in circles around the living room. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z So did the grasses, and the birds, and the rabbits. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z There would be a good chance of success if several runs could be opened and then tackled at the same time, but he doubted whether his rabbits would attempt it, after what they had seen. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z At last, just as Hazel was about to run down the slope to Blackberry’s burrow, he saw him come out of his hole, followed by no less than three rabbits. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z At this moment a rabbit with a white scar across his throat came down the run. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z More than once he had fought alone and imposed his will on crowds of other rabbits. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Utgardaloki clapped his hands, and a long wooden trough was brought in, with all manner of roasted animals in it: geese and oxen and sheep, goats and rabbits and deer. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z “Maybe is a no warren. Is a plenty good a rabbits ’ere, is all a my friends. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “Oh, I see. A rabbit I knew once. He used to foretell the weather and so on.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I open my eyes and the rabbit swirls into a vortex of mist. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z When she flies, she is still a crossbow in the sky, and she still “waits on” above my head until I kick up a pheasant or a rabbit. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Hazel wondered whether to send one of the rabbits to find out. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z On the other hand, there seemed no point in taking particular pains to get hold of rabbits who were going to behave like Toadflax. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The rabbit hopped forward, holding his pace to match that of the mare. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Trampita and Torito played a game to see who spotted the most rabbits, but Papá had to stop it because they started quarreling. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z Then I went outside and scattered seeds for the birds on the picnic table and threw some old lettuce and carrots out for the rabbits. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z My father’s .22 rifle and his shotgun, though, were right out in the open; everyone had them for hunting birds and rabbits and other game. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Since they were not being attacked, he could turn the space to his own advantage by getting some more rabbits in at once. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “I knew I was going to die. I really knew it. But I just stood there like ... like some scared rabbit.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z My fingers were just on the wire above one of the rabbits when a voice rang out. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z He’d chase rabbits out of the garden and sit out on the porch with us every night. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z "It will only keep a few days anyway, and we've got the whole bird plus the rabbit." The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Her voice came across rapid-fire, bouncing, like a rabbit dashing across a warren. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z How are we supposed to visualize “a stimulus,” “poststimulus events,” and “the way in which a stimulus is ultimately perceived”? And what does any of this have to do with rabbits? The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z “From the minute I first seen him,” said Bryce, “I knew he belonged to you. I said to myself, ‘That rabbit is for Sarah Ruth, for sure.’ The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z Not sure why there was a rabbit—maybe it was left over from Easter? The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z We passed a family of rabbits grazing on clover; a groundhog; a deer and her fawn. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z “He told you he wanted you to attack the sentries while the rabbits were feeding, didn’t he,” he said to Kehaar, “and that he’d bring the mothers out in the confusion?” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z She hands us each a headband with a feather sticking up like one rabbit ear. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z Kehaar’s speech was so outlandish and distorted at the best of times that it was only too common for the rabbits to be unsure what he meant. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z A snowshoe hare screamed and, recognizing the cry of death, Miyax picked up her club and ran off to take the rabbit from its killer. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Panda-Laney unzipped Paganini’s bag, and the little rabbit hopped out with a flourish, gazing around for something edible, nose twitching rhythmically. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z The movement had surprised the Wart, the rabbit and the hawk, all three, and all three hung a moment in surprise. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z “Fish, roots, berries, nuts, rabbits. There’s a lot of food around the woods if you look for it, I guess.” My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z I had noticed a lot of rabbit tracks earlier, and followed them over the muddy earth as best I could. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Some rabbits say he controls the weather, because the wind, the damp and the dew are friends and instruments to rabbits against their enemies. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Neither of the hutch rabbits had moved from where he and Bigwig had left them. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z When we make eye contact he says, “Time to feed the rabbits.” Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Then Lawrence pulled a rabbit out of his hat. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z What way they went I don’t know and no rabbit knows. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I watch the rabbit as it hops along the undergrowth, looking for food. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z I wasn’t just thanking him for the rabbit but also for telling me things. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “This is a shop for dolls. Not rabbits.” The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z An expert tracker, he missed little or nothing and was one of the very few rabbits for whom Woundwort felt a genuine respect. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “Little darling!—with her long curls and her blue eyes, and such a sweet colour as she has; just as if she were painted!—Bessie, I could fancy a Welsh rabbit for supper.” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z I grab my lucky rabbit foot and hold tight. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z Deeper and deeper into the rabbit hole, finding pictures and comments about my family. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Just outside the beech hanger, Hyzenthlay’s litter of four young rabbits were playing in the grass. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “Oh, it’s only Fiver,” said the black-tipped rabbit, “jumping at bluebottles again. Come on, Buckthorn, what were you telling me?” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a certain amount of talk about Fiver and the rabbits who’d gone with him. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Also, there’s a rabbit hutch by the toolshed.” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z “We,” she said, “are Eleanor and Theodora, two little girls who were planning a picnic down by the brook and got scared home by a rabbit.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z It ran right, then left, right, left, its white tail warning the other rabbits to hide. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z By the entrance to the compound a few rabbits hopped aimlessly, too addled by their sudden freedom to make a break for it. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z The sound of the river told the rabbits that it must be bigger than any they had known before—wide, smooth and swift. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “The dog’s adorable—a yellow cur with long ears; big, sad eyes—and the best rabbit chaser I’ve ever seen.” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Back in the meadow he had listened to bullfrogs, and woodchucks, and rabbits, even a few snakes, but he had never heard anyone speak like Tucker Mouse. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z Four rabbits were crowded against the wire, pressing their noses through the mesh. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I crawled back to the gorge, fed Frightful rabbit bites, and slipped back to the edge of the meadow to check a box trap I had set the day before. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z The mare took another step, two, three, and the rabbit matched it, following along beneath her. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z “The rabbits I saw are for food, and they are being fed to a falcon, an owl, a hawk, or maybe a raven.” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z He had already crossed the whole length of the hall and was pressed close to two rabbits, a buck and a doe, each of whom was fully as large as Cowslip. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Who else would make a bed of boughs and put a rabbit- skin pillow on it? On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yes, it’s tied. But do you expect any rabbit to stand his ground a few feet from an angry dog?” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Sam, however, had no objection to rabbit at all, and said so. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z But deer, like rabbits and bears and even men, can make, concerning my race, no delicate distinctions. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z I stood there, to use Fela’s words, like a scared rabbit. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z “Well, if that’s all you want, I might get a couple rabbits myself.” Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z Rue's pack holds my sleeping bag, her nearly empty water skin, a handful of nuts and roots, a bit of rabbit, her extra socks, and her slingshot. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z As she reached the kennel the cat looked up and spat at her, keeping one paw pressed down on the rabbit’s neck. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z That is surely childhood’s end, when you look at a thing like a rabbit needing skinned and have to say: “Nobody else is going to do this.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Like Bigwig, he found that the Efrafan rabbits obeyed him at once. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z There was another rabbit beside him in the burrow—a buck. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Every one of the rabbits was seized by the instinct to run, to go underground. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z He glowed, and the mesa hardly breathed—the day was suspended, as still as a frightened rabbit. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Around mouthfuls of rabbit and blackberries she confesses that even the rations for the white folks have become smaller and smaller since so many families have arrived in the past couple of weeks. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z Psychically, it was a rabbit hole, a midden, hot with the frictions of tightly packed life, reeking with emotion. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z The wise Mr. Lockley has told us that wild rabbits live for two or three years. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps he dreamed he chased some gigantic rabbit and couldn’t quite catch it. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z I wonder how long I can keep pushing that piece of rabbit around my plate. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z I had fed the rabbits that night and they will had alfalfa and so I only changed their water. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “Those ancient rabbits are packing their bags and running away.” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z I kiss the rabbit foot instead, and imagine Libby giving me notes on my pitch issues. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z “A rabbit, I think. Very clever and quick—” “You had better be quick now yourself!” A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z “Risking your life and other rabbits’ lives for something that’s of little or no value to us,” said Fiver. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Hazel determined then and there to bring the rabbits up to the beanfield to shelter and rest until the evening. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Her teacup pets surround her—a monkey on her shoulder, an elephant in her lap, and a thimble-size rabbit perched on the tip of her scepter. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Here I dressed down the rabbit and fed Frightful some of the more savory bites from a young falcon’s point of view: the liver, the heart, the brain. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z "I like my tale better," said Littlefinger, "and so will the smallfolk- Most of them believe that if a woman eats rabbit while pregnant, her child will be bom with long floppy ears." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Holding a knife, I contemplate a rabbit carcass slung over a hook on the wall, waiting to be cut open and skinned for the stew. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Cluny spat over the edge of the cart at two young rabbits playing in a field. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z “Please, sir, I’ve never seen a cat,” said the young rabbit. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z As the air began to cool, the rabbits woke and first one and then another came down the runs that led from the smaller burrows. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z From there we watch as people dressed like snowflakes, like elves, like rabbits, like sugar plum fairies, march past us, strangely truncated because we’re looking down on them. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z The wandering boy clutched his rabbit and waved up at us. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z She started to skin the rabbit, preparatory to cooking it. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z I open my eyes to see if he’s joking, but he’s frowning down at the rabbit he’s skinning. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z A rabbit could outrun a cat as long as he kept in the open and saw it coming first. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “What a singular rabbit,” said an elderly lady with three strings of pearls wrapped around her neck. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z ‘Shameful, really. If nobody fought in wars, there wouldn’t be any, would there? But you can’t get old rabbits to see that.’ Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z With a rush the dogs leaped from the road and yapped into the brush after a rabbit. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z Following this, Travis had driven us, and the fair organizers, mad with his obsessive checking and rechecking that Bunny was entered in the rabbit/fur competition and not the rabbit/meat competition. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Whenever they reached one of these rifts the rabbits huddled together, waiting for Hazel or Bigwig to climb the further side and find a way forward. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “Sir, if you have a down payment of three thou, I can make you owner of something a lot better than a pair of rabbits. What about a goat?” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z Alighting on the dead limb of an oak, he looked down and saw the rabbit. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z The little girl who is now dead sits in the back seat, with her two best dolls, her stuffed rabbit, mangy with age and love. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z But first she changed from the rabbit skins to the dress-cloth. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z But then, unless the fascination is too powerful, there comes the point when keeping still is discarded and the rabbit, as though breaking a spell, turns in an instant to its other resource—flight. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z They approached the wood just at first light and a rabbit ran to meet them through the wet grass. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z They were about to set off when a third rabbit approached—none other than Captain Campion himself. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z On the ground beside him lay two small rabbits, which he was beginning to eye greedily. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z He subsided, grumbling to himself, threatening the future cats which might dare to disturb the future rabbits. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z Grace’s hands are fists, her fatted chin is trembling, her eyes are pink and watery, like a laboratory rabbit’s. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z And sometimes, when they told tales on a sunny evening by the beech trees, he could not clearly recall whether they were about himself or about some other rabbit hero of days gone by. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z These young rabbits...must move out if they are to survive. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The large, weary, and bruised rabbit, anxious and jumpy. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z “He looks like a magician. I hate magicians. They usually have rabbits.” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z He and the other three rabbits gathered about Hazel without a word. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z She would look around the walls of the room, which they had decorated together last summer with a border of marching ducks and rabbits playing trumpets and drums. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z He slept soundly with his rabbit and remained asleep after I woke. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Looking down at the rabbit again, Kingshaw suddenly noticed a great, mealy wound inside its ear, full of matter and blood and grubs. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z The rabbits in front went fast and Hazel had little time to sniff about as he followed. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z He found Sam behind the hall, standing with Gilly at the broken rabbit hutch. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Although there was good cover, it was too wet for rabbits. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z On the other side of the fence, the upper part of the field was full of rabbit holes. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “Fresh catch,” said the fisherman, “fresh rabbit from the sea.” The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z The light west wind carried a fresh smell of rabbits. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The picture showed Lassie, all bones and wet fur, running along with a dead rabbit in her mouth. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z For a long time there had been a shriveled boot lying exposed on grass kept trim by rabbits. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Tree-ear began hopping about their little den like a rabbit, dodging Crane-man’s jabs and swipes, his shame forgotten for the moment, as the day ended in laughter. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z “I’m glad if I helped, Hazel. But what were we up to, and why did you talk to the rabbits in the box?” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I crack open my eyes to see the rabbit’s furry foot brushing against me. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z “But there were four hutch rabbits,” said Hazel. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead he pulled the only rabbit he had out of a hat, which happened to be a cat from a cage. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z “You’ll be the prettiest fairy there,” her mother had told her, and Ash grinned as her mother tucked a cloak of white rabbit fur around her chin. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The girl swung the rabbit as she danced in circles. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z “So you don’t have to sell your rabbit?” he said. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Nusan yelled from the floor where she was cutting a short length of rabbit fur. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z But then there was something else, a noise unlike anything a squirrel or rabbit would make in the hedge. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z I went out hunting with Dad once, and he said that when you first scare up a rabbit, it hops a short way, then stops and looks back. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z George came quietly out of the brush and the rabbit scuttled back into Lennie’s brain. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z Their mother was telling the young rabbits a story. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘Most rabbits here die of old age, unless the Owsla kill them off,’ she said. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The rabbit has the life it has—not a rat life or mongoose life—because it is named rabbit, mvundla. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z As the rabbits stared down they could discern, here and there, a very fine scour, like smoke—chalk and powdered gravel carried along by the river as dust is blown on the wind. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z A rabbit jumped up, but so did a wood rat. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z The wretched rabbits, obeying his orders, were met by Silver and Buckthorn at a point where the run opened out. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “Everything the hunters brought in was like this. Wild rabbit. Some birds. There wasn’t anything, well, anything very large.” Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Crowds of rabbits feeding at morning and evening were likely to attract attention. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Cold and hungry, the only food we have to eat are the fish and rabbits that float by. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Several of the rabbits were already awake and feeding on the edge of the wood. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Sound, unassuming, conscientious, a bit lacking in the rabbit sense of mischief, he was something of the born second-in-command. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z He remembered the other rabbit he had touched. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z Like Mom and Dad were the magicians and you were the rabbit they decided wasn’t good enough to be in their talent show. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z And yet there endured the legend that somewhere out over the down there lived a great and solitary rabbit, a giant who drove the elil like mice and sometimes went to silflay in the sky. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z As he kicked and struggled, it tilted and then, while the rabbits watched from the bank, moved slowly across the pool and grounded on the opposite side. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z While I gnawed on my rabbit, I watched as much as I listened. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Several rabbits were jostled and turned angrily on him, but he took no notice. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The butterflies would dance their merry jig across the lawns, and spiders spin foggy webs, and small startled rabbits who had no business to come trespassing poke their faces through the crowded shrubs. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z The rabbit who had fallen on him was Acorn. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes she’d straighten out the two-room house and take the rifle and have fried rabbit for supper when Tea Cake got home. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z They play-fought over who got to model the coat next, neither of them realizing the gray-and-white fur belonged to a real rabbit. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z In the close darkness of the Honeycomb, Hazel pushed past three or four of his rabbits crouching among the tree roots and reached the higher shelf where Speedwell lay listening for sounds from above. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “Come on,” said Woundwort, “and bring four others with you. Jump to this side”—he moved slightly—“there’s a dead rabbit on the floor—one of theirs.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z All four rabbits were now staring straight at him. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Heaven knew what would happen with a rabbit and two coyotes jammed in beneath her, and I had just about half a second to get ready for it when I realized I was mistaken.... This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Usually she would’ve gone home by now, but she was wrestling with the rabbit ears on top of the TV, trying to fix the snow on the screen. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z In an instant the rabbits were running in all directions through the bean rows, each one tearing by instinct toward holes that were not there. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z But when he moved, to unhitch the satchel and get out some food, the rabbit bumped away. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z One large crow in particular would not leave the rabbit alone. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z As he has no children to play with, he befriends the wild rabbits, offering them food and stroking their fur until he can touch their twitching noses. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z “The hawk was my hope, and the rabbit was my soul.” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z He moved his fingers about in the rabbit’s wet fur. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z I had a picture of my rabbit and another one of my dad and mom getting hugged by a giant chocolate Kiss at Hershey Park. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z Nelson could make a rabbit stew with mangwansi beans and mangoes that even Rachel couldn’t help eating, it was that good. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z They returned under the arch and as Silver came out of the bushes to meet them, they could hear the other rabbits stirring uneasily among the nettles. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z It crossed his mind that although Bigwig would certainly be a useful rabbit in a tight corner, he would also be a difficult one to get on with. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Outside the overcrowded rabbit pen, the new arrivals were being organized into groups. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Stitches dropped themselves and later reappeared at random so that the long striped scarf I was knitting bulged in the middle like a python after dining on a rabbit. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z There rabbits and ptarmigan gathered to eat seeds out of the wind, and moose wintered on the twigs of the willows. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The boy had snared a rabbit; he was good at setting traps and more ruthless than Dustfinger. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z As Pinmei looked up at it, she thought she saw the silhouette of a rabbit sitting at the top of the mountain, waiting. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z He leaned the rabbit’s forehead up against the counter so that he would not fall. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z We ran like rabbits fleeing a fox, like deer fleeing a hunter, like mice fleeing an owl, leaping, dodging, practically flying through the underbrush. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z “Hul-lo,” said Jack Ketch, with a twitch of his mustache, and he smiled at Scarlett through the bars like a rabbit with a secret. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z He clawed at the nearest rabbit, already skinned and lying by the fire. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Other rabbits could not stop him and once they went down they seldom got up. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z How many rabbits were concealed in the copse and watching them now? Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Sandy keeps up his fishing and picking berries, and even sets up a snare for a rabbit, which he catches and skins and cooks like it’s nothing. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z Most of the Thousand hunted rabbits for food. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z He was so strong, he needed no knife to behead chickens or rabbits. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s bound to be dark at night,” said Hazel, “and rabbits have got to sleep.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Some tried, to be sure, but they soon came out again, because they met El-ahrairah and the other rabbits. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Amazed, we see fleeing rabbits, a skunk, mice, and raccoons. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z At the time, I had a pet rabbit called Louis. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z The statue wore a golden pendant in the shape of a rabbit. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z The rabbits grazed or lay basking in the sun. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z "Old Lord Crow, him with the talking bird, he gave Craster a crossbow worth a hundred rabbits." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z You’d fill up the sack and bring it in an’ put it in the rabbit cages.” Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z The courses appear in rapid succession—savory rabbit and roasted duck and fish, platters of vegetables and salads. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z A fire burned in front of her house, and the smell of cooked rabbit filled the air. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z “Something fairly big—as big as a rabbit, anyway—moving clumsily but trying to keep concealed, or so it seemed to me.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z As the sun set, the rabbits fell to clawing and scrabbling in the runs. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s like I’m seeing the bunny rabbit in the moon instead of the man. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z His soldiers set out in the night and went to the meadows of Fenlo; but they couldn’t get down the rabbit holes. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I jumped up onto the nearest chair and placed the rabbit safely on the table’s edge. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z I ate it, knowing the rabbit had sacrificed itself for me. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Drum, who had finally cast his pellet, eyed the rabbit in the aerie and set off to walk the short distance for a meal. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Later, we shall see you again and you’ll find us perfectly friendly and helpful to rabbits who understand what’s expected of them.’ Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The rabbits died of shock, and the vines withered in his garden. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Energy from the rabbit soup flowed through her and she drummed her fingers against the floor. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z The virus changed so as to kill fewer rabbits and to permit lethally infected ones to live longer before dying. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Minli walked silently after the rabbit finished the story, and for a while the only sounds were of the tree’s flying seeds falling into the water. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z “I have a great many more rabbits,” he said. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z "Ah," I cried, for in her palm was the likeness of a tiny rabbit. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z He had rabbits that came to eat from his hands and deer that walked down to drink at his dams every morning and never ran off when he talked to them. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z “I mean the sprint across the parking lot, Joaq. You ran like a scared rabbit.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z A few rabbits still hopped around on the dirt. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z “That is Frightful; don’t be afraid. She’s quite wonderful and gentle. She would be glad to catch you a rabbit for supper if you would prefer that to venison.” My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z They had gone only a short distance when Fiver, sitting up on an anthill to look about, saw a rabbit approaching over the high ground to the west. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Only the tables in the front of the hall had gotten rabbit pie. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z In the bank on the further side of the bay the rabbit holes were plain to see, showing dark and distinct in the bare ground. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z There were a great many animals—rabbits and others—and every one of them felt sure that this time it was all up with El-ahrairah. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “The farm rabbits can’t be expected to go; and I’m not asking anyone who went the first time to go back again.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z And then after a long pause, he said, “It’s a particular sin for rabbits to dance.” The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z Enough scrapes were finished by soon after sunset and next day, sure enough, all the rabbits felt a great deal better for a night underground. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “Three litters born in autumn—have you ever heard of such a thing before? Frith didn’t mean rabbits to mate in the high summer.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The rabbits working on the far side of the wall crouched terrified. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The rabbit seemed alert enough, however, looking at me so acutely, bounding up to the fire. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z This wasn’t no ordinary rabbit, this was a hare of unnatural ability. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z “I didn’t believe it. I was like, ‘Man-sized rabbits?! The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z My brother is holding on to my dad with one hand and clutching a small brown stuffed bunny rabbit with the other. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z I'm wishing for a fire -eating raw rabbit can give you rabbit fever, a lesson I learned the hard way -when I think of the dead tribute. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z There was a great number of rabbits in the place—many more than he was bringing. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “If you are, tell me, and don’t be afraid, what you know about other rabbits coming.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z He was accustomed to sizing up other rabbits and deciding what they were good for. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z There were probably fourteen or fifteen rabbits—no more—who set off with Campion, some time before ni-Frith, to try to retrace the long journey they had made only the previous day. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The passage twisted and turned, more like the burrow of a giant rabbit than anything else. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z The boy offered her an ugly stuffed rabbit. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Finally we found the television behind an old rabbit hutch and carried it down the stairs to Henry’s car. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z On the first day he returned with a rabbit, and on the second with two birds. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Then the board righted itself and drifted out a few feet into the pool with the two rabbits hunched upon it, rigid and motionless. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The next moment, she disappeared like a rabbit. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I am a mountain rabbit bouncing, running, closing my eyes. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z The smaller ones—the rabbits, moles, and such-like—grew a good deal larger. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z Mr. Ram interrupts my mind’s dip into that rabbit hole exclusively reserved for Flannery. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z As they approached, a big rabbit appeared over the edge of the ditch, looked at them quickly and vanished into the bank. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I turned and walked quickly away from him, startling a rabbit that fled before me like my own leaping heart. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z The three explorers set off beside the brook, while Hazel led the other rabbits across the field and up to the edge of the woodland. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “Don’t worry. Just tell me again. Where did the bird say these new rabbits were?” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Shortly afterward the rabbits set out across the park to the north. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Twenty minutes later Lucy was holding the rabbit as quiet as she could while Doctor Adams pressed it gently here and there with the balls of two fingers. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Janie and Logan got married in Nanny’s parlor of a Saturday evening with three cakes and big platters of fried rabbit and chicken. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z Had I been raised with the tradition of stuffed animals, I would have hugged my bear or stuffed dog or rabbit, salting the ragged fur with my tears all night. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z The Wart ran about it like a rabbit in its own complicated labyrinth. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z I guess I must have blown that audition all on my own, on account of no rabbit foot. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z He reaches in and pulls out two rabbits by the heads. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I began to get three and four rabbits before they got one. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Rowsby Woof was quiet and dejected and did not even notice the smell of rabbit, which anyway was all mixed up with the smell of the fire and the larder. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I cut up the rabbit, fashion a spit out of branches, and set it over the coals. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z The rabbit, a powerful, heavy veteran by the name of Thunder, joined them, stumbling. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z He was about to lead the way up the south side of the combe when suddenly a rabbit shouldered him roughly aside, pushed past Fiver and was gone into the open. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z There, as she suspected, lay several rabbits and ptarmigan. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I froze, too terrified even to scream, then realized that it was just some small animal that I had frightened—a fox, perhaps, or a rabbit. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z The timid creature jumped like a shot rabbit and dropped the pocketbook. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z He is paying farmers near Cancale to butcher lambs and rabbits; Claude buckles the meat into his wife’s matching vinyl suitcases and carries them himself by train to Paris. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z If you look for the whole rabbit, you almost never see him because he blends into the scenery. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z “No, sir. No tracks or droppings either. But we both heard an animal and it was no rabbit.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z She spooned three bowls of steaming food for them—corn pudding and roasted rabbit—acting as if greeting strangers was what she did every morning. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z A little later Bigwig brought the hutch rabbits up the hill and at once called everyone to meet in the Honeycomb. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z When Hazel praised him, he muttered something about “the first time any rabbit’s done this and don’t tell the blackbirds.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Until this moment, I had never had to face the possibility of actual physical contact with a real, live rabbit. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z While the rabbit cooks, I grind up part of a charred branch and set about camouflaging my orange pack. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z When she had a pile of seven, Stella gutted and skinned and cleaned the rabbits as unconcernedly as she had denuded and disemboweled the roosters. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He bent the pup’s head up and looked in its face, and he said to it, “Now maybe George ain’t gonna let me tend no rabbits, if he fin’s out you got killed.” Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z Only a few of the rabbits remained above ground. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “Those are rabbits down there, trotting along like a lot of squirrels with nuts. How can that be right?” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I got mop and pail, sprayed a room with disinfectant, and scrubbed at coagulated blood and hardened dog, rat, and rabbit feces. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Then I began to wonder if I’m a regular rabbit or a blind one. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z At least there was room for twelve rabbits and the burrows were dry. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I’m hoping that Gideon got out alive; perhaps there was another chamber down in that rabbit warren of his. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z Pa feeds us young children slices of the rabbit meat. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Nothing, sir,” answered Thunder, “only there’s a dead rabbit on the floor and it startled me for a moment.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “We shouldn’t be using that bowl, Pinmei,” Amah said, and Pinmei realized she was holding the blue rice bowl with the white rabbit painted on it. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z The rabbit stayed lost with Lucy and Bull for a long time. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z The rabbits would freeze, eyes glowing red; the pigs would squeal. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z With rabbit ears on top, it got three whole channels. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “Is a good. Is a lots of rabbits a now, keepa grass a short.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The rabbit slipped under a pile of brush and was gone. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Have been rubbing it since that audition, one hand stealing winter coats and eating chips, and the other, it turns out, not letting go of that frickin’ rabbit foot. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z Of all the seasons of the year, the rabbit most preferred winter, for the sun set early then and the dining-room windows became dark and Edward could see his own reflection in the glass. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z Crossing the floor in the dark, Hazel found himself beside another rabbit, who was crouching silently on the near side of the new-piled wall. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “Now you rabbits do whatever rabbits do. And, White Rabbit, you get ready to rack up the assists this winter, you hear?” Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Hazel recognized him as one of the rabbits who had come to arrest Bigwig, but he did not know his name. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Best of all was the food—suppers of juicy rabbit stew and gooey boiled puddings and buttery dumplings that slid down Nate’s throat. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z I nodded, eager to get back to watching the rabbit. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Disorganized without Amaroq, they were forced to hunt rabbits and small game. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z With them were several more, including a heavy, savage-looking rabbit whom he guessed to be Vervain, the head of the Council police. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z By evening he was desperate, but his luck turned when a rabbit, already changing to its white winter coat, suddenly started up from the long grass and swerved across his path. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z I was wearing a regular shoe on one foot and I had the rabbit slipper from Mrs. Howard on the one that was twisted. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Seeing Linus jumping up and down on the demonstration table and moving his arms like a magician about to pull a rabbit out of his shoe made them feel inadequate. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z As Hazel came up, all the rabbits turned and stared at him expectantly. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Except for where the paintings hung, the walls of the study were completely covered with stuffed and mounted heads of every imaginable type of beast—from tiny rabbits to a massive, antlered elk. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z The last words were addressed to an immense biscuit-colored rabbit whose head had just popped up from somewhere beside the path. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z He was followed a moment later by Dandelion, who landed full on the rabbit whom Buckthorn had kicked. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “I sincerely hope you speak the truth, Elihu. These rebel committees are multiplying faster than rabbits in the spring. They’ve just about ground business to a halt.” ss “Have they interfered with you directly?” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z “My heart has joined the Thousand, for my friend stopped running today,” he said to Blackberry, quoting a rabbit proverb. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z You can keep a rabbit for a pet or you can eat it. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z I kicked up a rabbit and with a twist Frightful dropped out of the sky and took it. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z My stuffed rabbits crawl out of their burrows, noses awiggling, pink bunny, purple bunny, a gingham bunny from my grandma. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z The father dropped Edward on the bed, and Bryce picked up the rabbit and handed him to Sarah Ruth. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z When the other rabbit spoke, however, it was clear that either he had no interest in what Hazel had said, or else he had some other reason for not questioning him. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “Remember how you went behind the stage and figured out how he was making that rabbit appear? And then you told everybody?” Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Father said to Mama: “A child shouldn’t think herself better than others because she is blonde as a white rabbit.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z He was a good shot, Marly knew; she’d heard them tell about how many rabbits and pheasants and squirrels Fritz got in hunting season. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z “Lucy,” said the man, “I know how much you enjoy rabbit pie.” The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z Then he said, “I not see other rabbits, sir, but a my brother ’e say yellowhammer say is a new rabbits, plenty, plenty rabbits, come to combe over on a morning side. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z They reached the other five rabbits in the straw. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Nearly all the rabbits were very subdued and docile. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z She had tied rabbit skins around her hips to save the precious cloth for her eventual arrival in Zimbabwe, so everything from her waist up was bare. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Her arms flailed wildly, but somehow Tally kept her footing, shooting across the compound and over the rabbit pen. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z As the rabbits came up by the hole inside the beech wood, a swift gust of wind passed through the leaves, checkering and dappling the ground beneath, stealing and giving light under the branches. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The rabbits to go were chosen most carefully. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I was too shaken to consider my own foolishness; it was only the rabbit, and Mr. Loomis’s impatience, that had saved me. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z We’re similarly liable to pick up diseases from wild animals, such as the tularemia that hunters can get from skinning wild rabbits. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z She stirred who-knows-what poor wild thing into the stew and called it beef or rabbit. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Attached to her head are two ears, of a rabbit or deer, it’s not easy to tell; one of the ears has lost its starch or wiring and is flopping halfway down. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z He was explaining why one of his kisses merited a rabbit, or possibly two, since everyone knows redheaded men are the most virile. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z “Sniffs nose and works mouth and nose like rabbit almost continuously, especially when excited.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z The rabbits and the porcupines looked everywhere, except at each other. Terrible Things: An Allegory of the Holocaust 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘Nasty creature! So much the better. Disgusting rabbit, eat that lettuce!’ Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z He said seriously, “Maybe he carries a watch in his pouch like Alice’s rabbit.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z As though Bigwig’s angry impatience, Pipkin’s terror and the approaching dog were not enough to contend with, the cleverest rabbit among them had evidently gone out of his mind. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “I can hear only two rabbits,” answered Blackberry, after a pause, “and one of them sounds exhausted.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Some kept the excess birds under control; some kept the rabbits from destroying his garden; others cleaned up the rats, mice, and voles. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Fiver paid him no heed, but looked from one to another among the rabbits. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z He had looked dead, heavy and loose, like the rabbit in Hang Wood. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z It would be best not to take too many rabbits. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The brown mouth of a drain, stained black at the lower edge by a thin, dried thread of blood: of rabbit’s blood. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “The door opened up and she looked straight ahead and saw all these cages. She started yellin, ‘Dale, you not gonna believe it, but them cages was filled with man-sized rabbits!’ The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z They marched her to the rabbit pen, where about forty handcuffed Smokies sat inside the wire fence. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z “Doctor’s got summin’ better to do than bide about wi’ old rabbit. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z He saw more young rabbits than he could remember. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “Do you happen to have a rabbit’s foot, Mr. Howard?” Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “Well, of course, if you wish, although you are getting a little old for such things as china rabbits.” The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z She brought a new kettle of water in, skinned her rabbits by the light of the fire and boiled them for a nourishing soup. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z He was in a clump of brambles, in the middle of which was a rabbit hole that led up from one of the warren passages below. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z He had brought his Owsla to get at these rabbits, knock them down and beat them. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Dog tracks and rabbit too, neat as the pattern on a Sunday tie scattered over the snow. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z He was breathing fast, like he’d just chased a rabbit, and little snorts of dust were blowing up with each breath he took. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z A rabbit leaped up, and within seconds Frightful was on the ground, game in her talons. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z At that moment, however, he heard a rabbit approaching down some run close by. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The amount of food the rabbits produced was not very large, but once inside the wood the bird clearly felt safer and was able to hobble about and do some foraging for itself. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Silver seemed about to speak when suddenly there was a pattering in the undergrowth above and three more rabbits came over the bank from the wood. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z For ordinary rabbits, the punishments were more severe. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “Go on, you fat, overgrown, sassy rabbit,” Hand Clap ordered as he shook the reins, but Red Rabbit stubbornly stayed put. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z I turn to the mountains, where the rabbit is nearly a pinpoint. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z “There are a lot of us here and unless you’ve got more rabbits than I can see, we’re too many for you.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “Those rabbits we left—Cowslip and the rest—a lot of the things they did weren’t natural to rabbits—pushing stones into the earth and carrying food underground and Frith knows what.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “These tunnels are one giant rabbit warren,” I murmur. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z Then there had been a movement of willow branches twenty-five yards away and downwind, so that no odor of fear came to the rabbit. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Travis sat with me for a long time teaching me the baby way where you make the rabbit ears. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z “No, no,” said one of the warren rabbits, who had overheard him. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z But they were both older and wiser coyotes and knew that even if I did not somehow intervene, coming under the mare to take the rabbit would be tantamount to committing suicide. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z The light which dashed on the ceiling steadied, and imitated rabbits rather than lions, and donkeys instead of ghouls. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z He said he could shoot a rabbit from thirty yards. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z It was in fact a long time before all the rabbits had come back to the hollow in the middle of the field. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The other three rabbits looked at him speechlessly. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z They gathered together in the hall, sitting around two square tables pushed together, and ate salty flat bread and rabbit stewed with aromatic spices. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z For instance, I was hungry enough to eat a pig, a rabbit—heck, I’d have eaten a muskrat when things got really bad—but Mom still refused to serve it in the house. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z The rabbit had elaborate scrollwork making up its middle, and bells hung off its feet. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z Not as much as a single hawk in the sky in search of a rabbit. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z It saw the rabbits, ran to the length of its rope and began to bark. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Solitary bucks and unmated rabbits who are wandering do this for quite long periods, especially in summer. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z She gave Ignatius a light rabbit punch to the stomach. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Soon they were joined by Silver and Dandelion, but the other rabbits, more hesitant even than Hazel, remained crouching in the long grass on the right bank. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The peasant’s ancient ancestor, the forager, may have eaten berries and mushrooms for breakfast; fruits, snails and turtle for lunch; and rabbit steak with wild onions for dinner. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The padre grabbed a shovel and lit into the floor like a hound going after a rabbit. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z One of the children, who had curly blond hair and eyes of pink glass like a rabbit, was accustomed to sleeping in the house. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Bigwig and some of the other rabbits had already begun enlarging their burrows in preparation for Holly’s return. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “I give you my word, sir,” said Thistle querulously, “there’s some animal down there that is not a rabbit. We both heard it.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z He greeted Rebeca in the dining room, tied the dogs up in the courtyard, hung the rabbits up in the kitchen to be salted later, and went to the bedroom to change his clothes. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z All signs of rabbit life were concealed as closely as possible. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z One sergeant ascer-forest, robbing a rabbit warren, living for a month with gypsies, or picking pockets.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps she would teach children how to snare rabbits, make parkas, and carve; or she might live with some family that needed her help. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z He turned to a young rabbit of the Neck Mark who was feeding close at hand. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z My rabbit, which I have killed myself with a weapon I made myself, becomes part of the communal stew that evening. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z “Looks like we missed a little rabbit. Careful Cinder, his teeth may be sharp.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z With the other hand he popped the iris-cam out of his left eye and slid it into the rabbit’s. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z They take care of the Army’s guard dogs, as well as Army horses, Army cows, Army sheep, Army pigs, Army mules, Army rabbits, Army mice, and Army monkeys. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The sight of the rabbit seemed to stir something in my mother. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z I settled into a spot between a fake bush and a stuffed rabbit. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Some of the rabbits went to sleep in the long grass. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Wheat was attacked by rabbits and locust swarms, so the farmers built fences and stood guard over the fields. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “You mean baby rabbits? What happens to them? They don’t...” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z In seconds he felt the rhythmic thump of an approaching rabbit. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z She asked, “What makes you so nuts about rabbits?” Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z I ate the rabbit’s body, rolling my tongue over my lips to lick off the sticky bean paste. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Reining Belle up short, I yelled, “Don’t threaten me, Worth. I’ll run you down like a rabbit.” Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z Every length smells of rabbit—of that great, indestructible flood of Rabbitry in which each one is carried along, sure-footed and safe. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “Just before we silflay,” said Bigwig, “can I tell you, Holly, that I don’t believe anyone else could have brought himself and three other rabbits safely back out of a place like that?” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “C’mon, how bad could it be? When I was little, your grandma made us eat fried rabbit livers with pepper jelly. You kids have it easy. We got blackened vegetables on the good days.” The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z The Aschheim-Zondek rabbits flopped their ears and tried to hide in the corners of their pens. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “The rabbit made it to his hole,” said Chester. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z Their movement was disturbing, unlike that of trees or grass or rabbits. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Within a few minutes, I spot a rabbit and make my first kill with the bow and arrow. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z The rest had just pie, with no rabbit inside—despite what the servers were calling it. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z “They could carry rabbits or falcons or cats or even you, Mole.” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z In the dark, a rabbit came slowly up the run and stopped at the entrance to the burrow. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “Will you tell us about the fight in the storm, sir?” asked one of the other rabbits, “and the tunnel of water?” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z He stuffs the rabbit into the sack and rises. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z It had something to do with soaking in mud and rubbing with ashes, but her rabbit skins smelled vile when she was finished. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z He didn't know what there was in here, except for the rabbit he had seen. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z He had coolly—some even said coldly—stood firm during the terrible onslaught of the myxomatosis, ruthlessly driving out every rabbit who seemed to be sickening. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z But it was difficult to prevent him from hearing things because, as you all know, rabbits are very good at keeping secrets from other animals, but no good at keeping secrets from each other. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Soon the rabbits cut up lay simmering in their pans with the bunched herbs. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Against the perfect cover of vine and bramble and tangled drift sticks, a little gray brush rabbit sat quietly in the sun, drying his breast fur, wet by the grass dew of his early feeding. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z As they stopped to pick a line into the undergrowth, four big rabbits appeared out of the long grass and sat looking down at them. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I mean, who ever heard of a man-sized rabbit? The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z “Just don’t get violent on me. You seeing any purple rabbits running around or things like that?” 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The rabbit went on an ocean journey and fell overboard and was rescued by a fisherman. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z I threw fresh alfalfa into the rabbits pen and changed their water. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Once there was a rabbit who danced in a garden in springtime with the daughter of the woman who had loved him at the beginning of his journey. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z We panicked like a bunch of scared rabbits. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The whole month of October flew by like a hawk chasing after a marsh rabbit. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z “Skinning rabbits and sweeping floors and mucking out the privy. I am the inn girl.” The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Even he could derive little satisfaction from the prospect of killing a tharn rabbit half his own size, in obedience to a contemptuous taunt. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Then the rabbit leaped out and Molly peered under the bushes and saw him. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Some rabbits scurried through the quarters going east. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z Dandelion was telling it well, and even Pipkin forgot his weariness and danger and remembered instead the great indestructibility of the rabbits. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The rabbit was thinking that he must look quite dashing. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z When Campion came in, he reported that he had seen three rabbits running away over the down to the north. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The rabbits scattered about the grass stared at him in horror, several wondering whether this could really be the General. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “Tried and tried,” said Lennie, “but it didn’t do no good. I remember about the rabbits, George.” Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z In all of the wasis, the people presented offerings of maize-flour dough, shells, colorful stones, plucked eyelashes, and freshly killed rabbits. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z “But we can hardly stay out there with enough rabbits to fight them, sir,” said Groundsel, “and it would mean digging in and living there for some time.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z They now unwrapped the blanket, and there in the center was a tiny black and white rabbit, sitting in a shoebox filled with dirt. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z “But I must warn you that it will strike the frost into the heart of every rabbit that hears it.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Pick me up or don’t pick me up, the rabbit thought. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z I sat up and saw Uncle holding three rabbits. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z It might be a cow or it might be the remains of a rabbit. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z We turned at the corner where a tall stack of rabbit hutches butted against a stack of dove cages. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z I brought him the rabbit and he took it upstairs to the operating room. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “They sometimes attack mice, you know, and rabbit kittens, too,” said Chervil. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z She wore a girdle of smelly rabbit skins. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z However this may be, it is certain that no fox hunts rabbits by going openly up a combe at sunset. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z He spotted birds, squirrels, and rabbits in the meadow, but saw nothing supernatural. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z At last Hazel heard what he was listening for; a rabbit—or was it two?—approaching from the wood. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Once, there was a rabbit who loved a little girl and watched her die. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z In fact this lonely rabbit would make a small stew and we would still be hungry while we washed the dishes afterward—a feeling we were trying to get used to. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z True, rabbits could not eat these plants: he could smell that. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The Frey boy was as jumpy as those rabbits he'd flushed earlier. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z I seemed to recall my grandfather telling me that one picked a rabbit up by its neck with one’s teeth. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z And what would happen to a rabbit who left the shelter of the holly tree and ran down the path? Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “Sure. Look—you can carry the rabbit. And we’ll start back now if you want.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z That maybe if I tug this hat on hard enough, down over my entire face, it might make me disappear, or turn me into a rabbit. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z ‘He has brought rabbits, nice rabbits. But master has gone to sleep, and perhaps Sam wants to sleep. Doesn’t want rabbits now? Sméagol tries to help, but he can’t catch things all in a minute.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z At first, Pinmei thought it was his hat, but as she blinked away more tears, she saw it was Amah’s special rabbit rice bowl. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z An arrow does not make enough noise to upset more than tire particular rabbit that it is shot at At the fifth shot Kay was lucky. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Frightful took care of the small game supply, and now that she was an expert hunter, we had rabbit stew, pheasant potpie, and an occasional sparrow, which I generously gave to Frightful. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Neither of them bothered to watch the lame rabbit as he limped back by the way he had come. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “Well, anyhow, she told me about the time you freed your father’s rabbits because you didn’t think it was right to have them caged.” In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He squealed and rolled over in the sand, kicking frantically, as a rabbit does in a snare. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z His diet was the same as a rabbit’s, and his anxious face gradually came to resemble the face of that animal. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z JimmyTrotter said, “Don’t worry about Miss Trotter. Great-granny goes out with her deer rifle. Can still pick off a rabbit every now and then.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z “Raspberry bushes mean rabbits are about,” I told a curious bluebird watching from a milkweed plant. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Jesus, they look like a bunch of scared rabbits. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z “The big rabbit is a match for any cat,” he replied. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z A light wind was blowing straight into the north bank of the copse, where the scrapes had been dug, and Bluebell, when he came up, swore he could smell rabbits on it. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z He held something in his two hands that looked like a freshly skinned rabbit and hurried across the corridor with it and in through another door. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z The jackrabbit had dodged, dug in, taken a hard right turn, which apparently surprised the coyotes enough to throw their pace off so that the rabbit maintained at least a small lead. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z But do we know enough about the sunlight that warmed them, the soil in which they put down the roots, and the rabbits and lumberjacks they were lucky enough to avoid? Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z In the fields the rabbits sat sunning themselves, with only their forked ears showing above the grass heads. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z David said that if you ate too much rabbit, your ears would grow longer and fur would grow on your butt where a tail might be. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z Dismay thought this was a good game, and he squeezed right in with me, knocking me into cornstalks, sniffling for rabbits as he pushed himself into each row. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z "I was going to breed them rabbits. There's no sheep left." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “To frighten away rabbits. If you like, I will carry a stick. If you like, I will not come at all. Theo has only to say the word.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z “But the leg of wild rabbit with tarragon sauce is much better.” On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z As she went deeper into the trees, she heard the call of a night owl, and an animal bounded through the undergrowth — a rabbit? Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z They stopped chasing the rock rabbits and started to eat grubs from the ground. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z “Our children’s children will hear a good story,” answered Hazel, quoting a rabbit proverb. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I actually thought for a moment that we could cast spells, could turn people into frogs or rabbits, to punish the evil and reward the good. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z When we leave the lunchroom, in the hallways, we’re greeted by hundreds of references to rabbits. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Wearied by all they had gone through, the sodden rabbits crouched without talking, incapable of any feeling but a dull relief and without even the energy to wonder what was going to happen next. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “Blackavar, do you know that earlier this summer, before we had the benefit of your experience, we went for days across every kind of country—fields, heather, woods, downs—and never lost one rabbit?” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z What mattered was finding rabbits and killing them. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The rabbits were slow and hesitant and Chervil himself seemed unable to rise to his usual brisk manner. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I took a breath so, when my mouth finally opened, I’d sound like myself and not like some scared rabbit. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z He played tackle on offense and linebacker on defense, and opposing quarterbacks ran from him like scared rabbits. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z But one night, when nobody in town wanted to hear about the rabbit raffle any more, he heard a noise by the courtyard door. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z As I settled down to scrape the rabbit skins of the day, my neighbor the skunk marched right into the campground and set to work on the smoked rabbit. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z “I go in mortal terror of rabbits,” Luke agreed politely. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z The rest of the rabbits, roots, greens, the rolls spread with the last bit of cheese. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z As he had expected, Bigwig jumped at the idea of a raid to free the hutch rabbits. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “No, that won’t do. There’s not a scratch on him. Well, leave him, anyway. We’ve got to get on, and a rabbit this size isn’t going to make any difference, dead or alive.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z After several hours, I had the good luck to kill a rabbit. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Babies take two months to reach maturity, and from then on they produce another pair of rabbits at the beginning of every month. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Badgers are one of the few creatures which can munch up hedgehogs unconcernedly, just as they can munch up everything else from wasps’ nests and roots to baby rabbits. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z “But there’s a man coming on a horse, Hazel-rah,” said one of the young rabbits. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z All the other rabbits were above ground, waiting and whispering together. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z As a result, a less lethal myxo virus spreads baby viruses to more rabbits than did the original, highly virulent myxo. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z As he knelt to skin the rabbit, Sam pulled off-his boots. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Holly had achieved nothing and this was entirely due to the unexpected unfriendliness of the Efrafan rabbits. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I’m sure there can’t be many warrens where all the rabbits can meet together underground. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z If there's one rabbit, there could be hundreds just waiting to be snared. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Of course, our friends in Houston were kidding, because the moon doesn’t have any cinnamon trees or even any air for people or rabbits to breathe. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Even if he managed to do so, would Hazel be able to bring the rabbits a second time? Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “Just as you like, sir, of course. But he strikes me as being a bit out of the ordinary. I’d say, a distinctly useful rabbit.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps she’d cut the ears off rabbits and she wanted to feed them to some secret Bigfoot-like beast that lived in the forest. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z He hadn’t been where he should have been the night the coyotes killed the rabbit, and he wasn’t where he should be now. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z It was turning muddy now—unpleasant going for rabbits—but at least it led straight to the river and was open enough for Kehaar to spot them if he should turn up. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The dry slope was dotted with rabbits—some nibbling at the thin grass near their holes, others pushing further down to look for dandelions or perhaps a cowslip that the rest had missed. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Something clanked in the distance and the rabbit jumped. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z He turned away from the body and looked for Fiver among the rabbits behind him. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The rabbit flew through the late spring air. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z I wonder what’s going on inside that rabbit—if its heart’s pounding fierce. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z He was cleaning the .22, getting ready to go out after rabbits. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Woundwort, still waiting silently, could smell and hear a considerable number of rabbits on the far side. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I’d forgotten any idea of collecting other rabbits, but there were three who joined me all the same—Bluebell here and Pimpernel and young Toadflax. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The lame rabbit seemed about to reply, but Woundwort had already turned away and was explaining to Campion what he was to do. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “Psee,” she cried weakly, unable to reach the remains of the rabbit. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z “Do you know, I’d quite decided to become a water rabbit.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z At any moment, Rex Rollins the casting director could call, so I’m clutching my dying Nokia in one hand and, no doubt about it, that lucky rabbit foot in the other. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z So much for my lucky rabbit foot, still gripped in my palm like a handgun. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z It was a decent point, but at least a rabbit has eyes. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Aron leaped at him and the limp body of the rabbit slashed against his face. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z They were all staring at the boy and the rabbit and Neal. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z This mouse was his quarry, like a gull catching a herring or an owl catching a rabbit. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z Indeed, for almost any utterance that a rabbit in this dreadful situation could find to make, Vervain was unthinkingly ready with one or other of a stock of jeering rejoinders. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Through the mesh he could see a brown bowl, some greenstuff and the ears of two or three rabbits. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “Man wants to be the king o’ the rabbits, he best wear a pair o’ floppy ears.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z They had no more huge feasts, but the leftover pieces of the cooked rabbit lasted a few days, and roots and tubers were plentiful every time they reached a river. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Having strayed farther afield than usual, I was hurrying back home, lugging my burlap sacks when I came across a dead rabbit. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z “Well, this is a poisonous spider, and it’s gonna bite your silly old rabbit!” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z In the end the earth had given way under them and they had fallen down among some rabbits, whom they had fought and beaten. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z There were red squirrels in the trees, chipmunks scurrying through the leaves, and little rabbits playing games together in the open places. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Inside I quaver like a crouched rabbit, but, as before on The Beast, I do not show it. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z I concentrate on the rabbit, having decided to cut it open myself. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z There was one panel of rabbits, dead, one of pheasants, also dead, and one panel of dead ducks. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z A few days after the Rude boys left him smeared on the road, Finn wandered among the tents, stopping to look at this sheep, that pig, this dog, that rabbit. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z He’d apparently sighted a rabbit that I could not see anywhere. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z I try all kinds of ways to figure how I could get that rabbit meat off my plate and into my pocket, but Ma’s watching every move I make. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Aron would try to wash the blood off the rabbit, and this would take time. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The two rabbits began to wander among the outbuildings. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I've no appetite, but I suck on a rabbit bone just to give my mouth something to do. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Two dwarf warriors clung frantically to Gurgi, who swung them about as if they were rabbits. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z Frightful came home with a rabbit and dropped it in the aerie. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z There, well before sunset, Kehaar, flying westward down the Belt, spotted the rabbits lying up, all among the nettles and goose grass. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I’ve seen dead animals before, dead frogs, dead rabbits, but this raven is deader. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Toby and Pete, who used to play with me as soon as they got home from school, now ran immediately to that silly rabbit’s cage to play with him. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z He lived with rabbits and bugs, wherever it was, either on Earth or a colony world; now he had forgotten that, too. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z The dog had been set on them by the rabbits they had come to kill—of this they were sure. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z It felt like the hush of the woods before the snare yanks tight and the rabbit starts to scream. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z We each suck out the insides of an egg, eat a rabbit leg and some berries. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z “I like to pet nice things. Once at a fair I seen some of them long-hair rabbits. An’ they was nice, you bet. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z Then I went to the river and cut the tall, green alfalfa that grew wild and carried the bundle home so that I would have a few days of food laid in for the rabbits. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The rabbits started hopping and the birds started flying and the lizards started leaping and the snakes started slithering and Winn-Dixie started barking and chasing everything that was moving, and Otis shouted, “Help me!” Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z The first thing I think of is my stuffed rabbit. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Wez surprised a vixen drinking at the stream, and Walder flushed three rabbits from the underbrush and managed to put an arrow in one. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The rabbit zigged one last time around a scruffy boulder, ducked under an ancient century plant and stopped—dead—directly beneath the mare. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z As Chester tells it, he suddenly felt compelled to look at the rabbit. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z “Thlayli,” he said, “we’ve unblocked a run out here. I can bring in enough rabbits to pull down this wall in four places. Why don’t you come out?” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “It was a rabbit; it went over the hill and out of sight.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z She set four snared rabbits down near the door, then waited to speak. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z The rabbit made one last smoking effort and came to a dust-explosive shuddering stop directly beneath the mare.... This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Out of the corner of his eye, the rabbit saw something flutter. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z And one day I just crept in there and ate off one of that rabbit’s ears. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z The place was like a gigantic rabbit warren, with passages leading this way and that in every direction. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z The third rabbit, whoever he was, seemed to be in difficulties. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The baboon was followed by a rock rabbit, which also showed no sign of wanting to drink the milk. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z I coat my lips in some grease from the rabbit and try to keep from panting, but it's no use. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z And her friends at the Joy Luck Club said she died just like a rabbit: quickly and with unfinished business left behind. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z But in what pen did a given rabbit belong? Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The collar and sleeves of her black jacket were lined with rabbit fur, but it wasn’t enough. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z A big swamp rabbit hopped out on the trail, sat on his haunches, stared at me, and then scampered away. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Bigwig made his way into the field, conscious of the wary glances of the rabbits he passed. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The kestrels were disturbing, but Hazel had been right when he guessed that a healthy, full-grown rabbit was too large a quarry for them. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The other girls’ daemons, apart from the rabbit, were close by listening at the door, and no one spoke above a whisper. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z The animal was tired of getting hungry, and he asked a rabbit to sew up his bottom so no food could get out. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z They scrounged for termites, picked berries, dug for roots, stalked rabbits and hunted bison and mammoth. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z He had just begun to run once more when a rabbit overtook him. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Johnny turned it over, expecting to see the familiar rabbit of the great Mr. Coney. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Clover, the Angora doe—a strong, active rabbit—was clearly excited by Hazel’s description and asked several questions about the warren and the downs. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z There is no pork, no rabbit, no cauliflower. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Two days later Larry Dunn stopped wearing socks on his hands and started wearing a pair of real leather gloves with real rabbit fur on the inside of them. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z He watched while the man deftly patted flour onto the pieces of meat and then added the rabbit to the pan. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z At no point was there room for a rabbit to squeeze through. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z Then plan after plan started leaping through my head, like a family of scatty rabbits. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z The queen of the rabbits must not be wed without herfloppy ears. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The rabbit fetched up against the grating, drifted a little way along it, found the bottom and crawled out of the turbid water. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Quite probably some of his own rabbits would be killed—certainly wounded. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z El-ahrairah combed himself until he had enough fur to cover a clay rabbit, which he pushed into the water. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z They’re followed by another group of men, this time with a handful of wild onions and another with a rabbit, cleaned and ready to be cooked. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z But to the rabbits they were redolent with luxury, a feast to drive all other feelings out of mind. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The rabbit’s flutter of death was finished when they bent over to examine their victim. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Suddenly, from under the bridge, with a languid movement of its flat tail, swam a gravel-colored fish as long as a rabbit. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z He was concupiscent as a rabbit and gentle as hell. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z They offered me a bit of rabbit that was cooking on the fire. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z No human beings, except the courageous and experienced blind, are able to sense much in a strange place where they cannot see, but with rabbits it is otherwise. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Deja, who everyone knew was painfully shy, glanced up with the look of a frightened rabbit. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z And the rabbit swore that he would not make the mistake of loving again. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z Imagine that a farmer has a pair of baby rabbits. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z “Because,” she says, “everyone knows you don’t go anywhere important without that rabbit foot, and that you wouldn’t have taken it with you for a regular old overnight at your girl Libby’s.” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z For example, when the rabbits all over England died of the introduced rabbit disease, myxomatosis, the foxes didn’t have much left to eat, so they began killing the farmers’ chickens. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z “I have come to tell you about my warren. We need more rabbits. We want you to run away from the farm and join us.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “I don’t know until you tell me. What did you mean about new rabbits and another warren soon?” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z It was Fiver who was clambering over him, clawing and grabbing like a rabbit trying to climb a wire fence in a panic. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “El-ahrairah is a trickster,” said Buckthorn, “and rabbits will always need tricks.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “I heard the talk in town. That they’ve been treating you like a rabbit child.” The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z He did not recognize the other two rabbits and when Blackberry told him their names—Speedwell and Acorn—he was none the wiser. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The five rabbits hopped slowly along the planks, their great, sensitive ears full of the sound of the falling water. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z With a hop and two flaps, he was upon the rabbit. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z The king gave a shake of his head, like a dog shak-ing a rabbit to snap its neck. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Animals stirred, birds and squirrels, two timid rabbits. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z Her hair was almost finished, only a small section, like a rabbit’s tail, was left at the front of her head. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z He slipped on a piece of broken barrel and slid down the dune, landing on his fake rabbit tail in a tidal pool. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z He came out on the bank, where Campion and Vervain were waiting with a number of the other rabbits. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z And I stay with her, looking out of the window, waiting for hawks to kill rabbits. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z All his life, Edward had known what he was: a rabbit made of china, a rabbit with bendable arms and legs and ears. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z A rabbit would pop up, or sometimes a pheasant. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Old Tallow split a poor waboose, rabbit, and opened its skinny body to show that the creature was mush inside, a bloody pudding as the result of disease. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z “He does. He sells those teeth as good luck charms. Like a rabbit’s foot, y’know?” As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z But at this moment the other rabbit came toward them of his own accord. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “Some of these rabbits were still chasing us and suddenly I thought, ‘Well, I’ll have one of them anyway.’ Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The statue wore a golden pendant in the shape of a rabbit. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z Hell, I bet my old stuffed bunny rabbit is still in there. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z “You’re a rabbit”—whack!—“and you go around killing talking carrots”—whack!—“that commit crimes.” Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z “It was rabbit fever,” and the illness lasted many months, during which the family had depended upon church assistance and the charity of neighbors—“otherwise we would’ve starved.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z So in the pet-food aisle, I learn more about Swizzle, the malevolent bunny rabbit. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z Then he took up the rabbit, spitted it, and soon had it roasting. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z He slips the skin from the rabbit in one quick move. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Even more than most rabbits, Bigwig loved a story and now he felt attracted by the prospect of hearing something new in this strange warren. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z It came briskly round the corner of the barn, saw the rabbits and stopped dead. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Their pets—a dog named Franz, a cat named George Washington, and a house rabbit named Paganini—sprawled on the carpet, taking afternoon naps in a strip of sunlight. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z Sometimes, though, God smiles on the fox and puts the rabbit right in his path. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z He stamped and bolted into the trees, followed by the other rabbits who were in the open. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I tell the lieutenant, “You know, this path could be made by Calvin. Or by a deer. Or rabbits. It’s hard to know.” The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z An animal—a rabbit?—moved through the bushes by the summerhouse. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z Even the distant clomp of a horse’s hooves sent me running like a hounded rabbit. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z And in the same moment he remembered what Kehaar had said about a box full of rabbits at the farm. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Without Campion, probably not one rabbit would have got back to Efrafa. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z All around his house were small square patches of things enclosed in fences to keep the rabbits out, and—as Harry said—to keep the flowers and vegetables in. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z “Get these open as quick as you can,” he said, “and send two rabbits to find out what’s behind the tree roots beyond. If they’re attacked you’re to go and join in at once.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z All at once, I remember that day when he taught me how to tie my shoes, two rabbit ears twisting together, those chapped fingers guiding mine. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z One cause of friction was that she had strong ideas about what she wouldn’t eat—and didn’t want us to eat— including pork and rabbit, both of which my father loved dearly. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z For the first time I saw the rabbit, still and bloody. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z I was surprised to find a rabbit already struggling against the cord. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The giant, soft rabbit, missing a nose, she had had since she was a baby. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z She is carrying a rabbit home to her nestlings in her taloned feet. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The two rabbits waited in silence, broken only by the continual nervous fidgeting of Fiver. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z It was worse because Edward was a different rabbit now. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z Howard was pacing around Santa Anita, a rabbit’s foot working overtime in his pocket. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “They put everyone in the rabbit pen, separating us into groups. Croy said they’re going to take us all back to our cities.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Minli remade her compass with her rabbit rice bowl and followed the needle’s pointed direction. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z One watch succeeded another through the day, though how the rabbits judged the passing of the time is something that civilized human beings have lost the power to feel. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I saw a rabbit scamper into a hole and wished I could follow him like Alice in Wonderland would have. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z They all seemed to be making an effort and doing their best, although the smaller rabbits—especially Pipkin—clearly found the task an awkward one. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Duchess and Lady saw Frightful bring food to Drum and set up such a screaming demand that Frightful picked up the rabbit and carried it above the aerie. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z “His heart has gone crazy. Beating like a rabbit...” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z Lucy stopped crying and went upstairs, still carrying the rabbit. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “You know, there’s something strange about the wall at the other end, sir,” said Vervain, as Groundsel began setting his rabbits to work. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Also, he found that whenever he moved into one group or another, the warren rabbits evidently knew who he was and treated him as the leader of the newcomers. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z They spend their time sailing, playing tennis, and sometimes recalling the halcyon days of crossing the moors behind packs of beagles to hunt down rabbits. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Especially when we learned that some of our close cousins—squirrels, for instance, and rabbits—were well liked. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z She doesn’t say anything, but I know she thinks it looks stupid—a baby room, all those toy rabbits; there must be a hundred of them. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z He jumped back up the bank among the staring rabbits. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z It was while we were eating breakfast that Houston told us the story of the Chinese rabbit that I mentioned at the beginning of this book. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z There were probably more than five rabbits in the litter when Fiver was born, but his name, Hrairoo, means “Little Thousand”—i.e., the little one of a lot or, as they say of pigs, “the runt.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Crenshaw was holding up two fingers, making rabbit ears behind the other announcer’s head. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Perhaps the rabbit fur on Edward’s ears and tail, and the whiskers on his nose had some dim memory of being hunted, for a shiver went through him. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z “Hazel,” said Speedwell suddenly, “there’s a rabbit coming down from the warren. Look!” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z How many dancing rabbits have you seen in your life?” The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z Inside the card are a receipt for a yearly subscription to Feminist Monthly, a pressed violet, and a letter folded into the shape of a rabbit: Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z How long would the rabbit stay sheltered under her? This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z So I made rabbit soup in a tin can I found at the bottom of the gorge. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z I wanted to set my own snares that caught a belt of fat rabbits in one day. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z The image of Baba dressed in a white rabbit suit, front teeth sticking out, crunching a giant carrot swims in front of my eyes. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z “Aren't they tiny? I remember when you were this small. Just like a baby rabbit.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Finally, the hutch rabbits would not be missed until the following morning. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “They don’t make salad pizza. Salad is the opposite of pizza. Salad is for rabbits and pizza is for people who love cheese and sausage and pepperoni. And that happens to be us.” Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Or they might already be on the run, in which case they must be followed and caught at once, for they were fresh and his own rabbits were tired and could not pursue them far. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The rabbits became strange in many ways, different from other rabbits. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z That was the last Jody saw of them, for when they failed to catch the rabbit, they went back home. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z Four of her rabbits did not fare so well. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z A rabbit was on the exposed root of a tree, almost at his feet. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z Before ni-Frith the rabbits had managed to produce as much as it could eat—for a time, at all events—and were able to sleep through the heat of the day. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Without going near Rabscuttle, he must tell him to hurry ahead, reach the rabbits in the warren and warn them to block all the holes and stay inside until King Darzin’s army was destroyed. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “Are we rabbits? Are we to fear those Cauldron slaves?” The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z How many rabbits has that happened to, I wonder? Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z When we think of the downs, we think of the downs in daylight, as we think of a rabbit with its fur on. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “I envy that fellow in his rabbit warren! Sometimes I think he had quite the right idea.” The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z He brought him out without disturbing the other two rabbits and led him up by the run that gave on the bank. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The rabbit, too, was experiencing a great emotion. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z Light Hair managed to shoot a rabbit with his bow and arrow. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z There were no connecting passages, but the rabbits were too weary to care. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I guess she hated to admit that if it was up to her we’d be hightailing it out of here like rabbits. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z A stoat or a fox took a rabbit and took no more until it was ready to hunt again. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The journey back, with the three limping hutch rabbits, lasted more than two weary hours. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead of pictures hung up on the walls, he had antlers and buffalo horns and a stuffed rabbit head. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z “Look at this—I drew a giant monster rabbit!” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z “You know, jaanoo, this Halloween business gets me quite depressed too. Who wouldn’t want to go out dressed like a rabbit and beg for candied carrots?” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z In her rough, steady hand she held a bark container of rabbit soup boiled up with potatoes from the storage cache. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z But all they contained were thousands of randomly generated trees and the occasional bird, rabbit, or squirrel. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Outside the fort is plenty of food: fish, oysters, rabbits, berries. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z “Then one more question, Thlayli. That patrol was on the track of a band of rabbits—strangers. What do you know about them?” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Galton tried transfusing rabbits with the blood of other rabbits to transmit the gemmules. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z The flashlight beam fell on a teddy bear, a stuffed toy rabbit, fishing rods, a toolbox, piles of books, and a plastic sword that stuck out of a sleeping bag. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z Every now and then, he perked his ears up at the sound of a rabbit or something rustling down in the woods. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z As these rabbits mature and reproduce, and those rabbits mature and reproduce, and so on, how many pairs of rabbits do you have during any given month? Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Anyway, she saw Lancelot, and she thought he was a rabbit. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z A skinny rabbit, tall and gray, stood upright like a person, using his paws as hands to hold a carrot. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z So after all he’d been through, poor Pimpernel was killed by rabbits. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z To the left of the line a rabbit broke from heavy brush, darted frantically out into the tall grass. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Still, Venice had lots of nooks and crannies, like an old rabbit warren. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z He talked about the arrival of the wild ducks, the thickness of the winter coat of muskrats and of rabbits. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z “If Mrs. Howard hadn’t made me wear the rabbit slippers,” I answered, “I wouldn’t have tripped and cut Maria’s nose off.” Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “These are rabbits we’re going to meet. You know them as well as you know us. Let it be the right thing that I’m doing.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The rabbit’s nose crinkled, and his ears slewed around now and then, investigating small sounds that might possibly be charged with danger to a brush rabbit. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The doe, a pretty, long-nosed rabbit not more than three months old, stopped and looked at him. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z He described the approach and went on to explain how the rabbit hutch was to be found. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Well, remember what Father used to say when we went rabbit hunting? East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z People were shooting into the doorways like rabbits. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z “Well, why don’t you answer his question, Thlayli?” said one of the rabbits. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z When he caught up with his brother he held out the rabbit. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Only two or three of the rabbits were out to a rather subdued silflay in the wet. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Maybe we’d even have a rabbit or a muskrat to sell in the morning. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z The small, leaping tracks of cottontail rabbits, the tiny tracks of field mice, and the feather-stitching tracks of snowbirds. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Although a full-grown rabbit is not really in danger from owls, there are few who take no account of them. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z She hit where the rabbit had been, not where it would be by the time she struck. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z I had been eating frogs’ legs, turtles, and best of all, an occasional rabbit. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z I inched forward behind the dog, and a rabbit went bounding away in the high grass. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z At the stamping, all the rabbits above ground ran for cover. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z A .22 rifle leaned against the fence beside him and on the ground lay a little heap of fur and feathers—rabbits and small birds. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Cowslips are a delicacy among rabbits, and as a rule there are very few left by late May in the neighborhood of even a small warren. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z In dazed wonder, I stood in front of the box, holding my face close to the rabbit’s, running my fingers over the slippery glass, vaguely hearing Mamita’s far-off voice saying my name. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z He himself looked so sad and dark as he spoke that no one made any reply, and after a few moments all six rabbits made their way up the slope in silence. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Liver disease in cattle, sheep, goats, deer, elk, rabbits, and various other warm-blooded animals may be caused by liver flukes that spend part of their life cycles in fresh-water snails. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Evidently some of the other rabbits had had the same idea. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z In it the rabbit would hide from enemies or rest when not eating. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z As they approached, the other rabbit kept still and watched them intently. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z At first they had supposed that there must be a large number of rabbits underground. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z She turned her back on the island temple and wandered slowly over the perfect lawn the rabbits had made, toward the bridge. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Kingshaw lunged forward suddenly, and fell upon the rabbit, pinning it to the ground. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z “Look at that rabbit!’ the old man said. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z Basta was still standing on the stairs, playing with the rabbit’s foot he wore around his neck as a lucky charm. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Now there were only trees, their gray-brown trunks scaled with lichen, and every so often the sound of a squirrel or rabbit bounding through the underbrush. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z But such rabbits or raccoons or opossums as may have roamed those bottomlands and perhaps never visited the farmers’ cornfields were doomed by a judge and jury who neither knew of their existence nor cared. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “Well, these mad rabbits probably dance in the moonlight or something.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Leaning in close, I heard him say, “Seen a rabbit today. Hopping right past me like I was nobody special.” Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z “Tam Lin says rabbits give up when they’re caught by coyotes,” Matt said after he’d calmed enough to trust his voice. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z On his run back to the cabin each afternoon, he shot a rabbit for supper. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z Platters of duck and partridge, rabbit and bird eggs, and seasoned venison passed by in dizzying numbers. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z It would be less dangerous for three or four rabbits than for hrair. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z At that moment a rabbit came out of the grass and sat up in the middle of the track. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “That’ll be part of his job, too, to make sure there are plenty of rabbits breeding out there.” Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z “Well, he’s sick of you,” said the rabbit. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z Four wandering rabbits—giving themselves out to be some kind of embassy from another warren—had been held and impressed into the Right Flank Mark. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The girl was wrapped in a blue blanket embroidered with white rabbits, just as the Old Man of the Moon had said. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z Rabbits were suddenly dying from a rabbit disease that seemed to eat up their insides. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z A tiger can make a soft prrrn-prrn noise deep within its chest and make even rabbits feel safe and content. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z They had rabbits at school, in cages, fat, and white, with pink, vacant eyes. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z Every moment of every video record was connected to a hundred others by different criteria—which meant that every connection Citra followed led her down a rabbit hole of virtual neurons. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z A man, a fox—even a rabbit—coming over the down would be conspicuous. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Then he turned in a circle to the left, came back over the grass track and flew straight down it, skimming just over the rabbits’ heads. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z And if he was not the Chief Rabbit, then somewhere close by there must be another, stronger rabbit who was. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The next moment a rabbit started up from the earth at his feet and sank his teeth in the pit of his near foreleg, just where it joined the body. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z England, plagued by rabbits, sorely needs the fox as a predator. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z And then Abilene disappeared from view and the rabbit hit the water with such tremendous force that his hat blew off his head. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z Heidi reaches down and picks up my lucky rabbit foot, dropped this morning—so early—when Mom flung me across the room. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z A baby rabbit, terror ridden, squirmed through a hole in the floor and squatted off there in the shadows against the wall, seeming to know that nobody wanted its flesh at such a time. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z Hissing, Biter grabbed a handful of half-charred rabbit right off the spit, and tore into it with his pointed teeth while honey dripped between his fingers. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “But if Holly’s successful we shall soon have plenty of does: and from all I’ve ever heard of hutch rabbits, they don’t take easily to wild life. The truth is, you’re just a silly show-off.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Dismay had exhausted himself chasing rabbits and chewing up sticks. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z On other days in other years, he had called her “the rabbit in the hat” and “the universal solvent” and “the recycler of our garbage.” Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z Hence the virus was intentionally introduced to Australia in 1950 in the hopes of ridding the continent of its plague of European rabbits, foolishly introduced in the nineteenth century. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “Well, about the rabbit, and sneaking here in the car. And you did something to Abra. I don’t know what, but it was you made her throw the box away.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z None of the boys had been forced to enter anything, but Travis voluntarily entered his Angora rabbit, Bunny. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z At several points the brook was narrow—not much wider than a rabbit run. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I wiped it down, making sure to remove clods of dried mud and clumps of grass from the undercarriage and chipping the dried dirt off the pictures of the rabbit and the turtle. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z As she had anticipated, the hunting was excellent, and upon checking her snares the next day she found three rabbits and two ptarmigan. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z She went back to the house, carrying the rabbit. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Neither Hazel nor any of the rabbits who had been listening to Dandelion’s story had ever seen a fox. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The two rabbits sniffed and stared, but could make nothing of it. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Our new arrival slept all day, and Chester, whose curiosity had been aroused by the strange behavior of the rabbit that first night, had decided to stay awake every night to observe him. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z If he had said something, anything at all, the troops surrounding him might have remembered that he was a man, not a rabbit to be skinned. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z She was about to go after a rabbit, but I thought that wasn’t proper fare for a post-Christ- mas breakfast, so we went to the stream. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Frightful did return to Drum with a rabbit late in the morning. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z The stars shake, the rabbit shakes, the bed shakes. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z His ears were forked and twitched like those of a rabbit. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z And what could have reduced him—of all rabbits—to this state? Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a squeal and a rabbit tumbled on top of him. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z His eyes were open, but his face was such a fearful mask of blood, foam, vomit and earth that he looked more like some demon creature than a rabbit. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z So far we’d managed to grab less than a dozen rabbits and only a skinny deer. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z ‘But may I beg you to remove that rabbit you sent among us, for he troubles us with his foolishness?’ Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z He stood and watched the boy and the rabbit for a long time. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z Got a kitchen, orchard, cherries, apples, peaches, ‘cots, nuts, got a few berries. They’s a place for alfalfa and plenty water to flood it. They’s a pig pen—” “An’ rabbits, George.” Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z We’d have a setter dog and a couple stripe cats, but you gotta watch out them cats don’t get the little rabbits.” Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z A quarter of a mile farther on the young dog looked carefully around before dropping his rabbit. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “It—it must be the rabbit that’s been lying there, sir,” answered Groundsel. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Hazel turned toward the sound and in a few moments made out, under a clump of hemlock, the hunched shape of a rabbit. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Once, in a house on Egypt Street, there lived a rabbit who was made almost entirely of china. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z Frightful ate the rabbit while the eyases watched, twisting their heads from side to side and calling “pseee” when she swallowed. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Soon there was a small pile of debris in the hollow as the rabbits brought anything from which it could get food. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Finally, Tallow lifted her gun, looped her rabbit snares around her wrists and set out to hunt, now with more urgency than ever. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z Woundwort waited only for Groundsel to bring back the two rabbits who had been sent to search among the tree roots at the north end of the burrow. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Anyway, my father had taken one of the rabbits which we were raising, and ordered my mother to cook it. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z “But he won’t. That blind rabbit’s been in there for hours.” Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z My father had taken a rabbit from the rabbit pen. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Fiver said no more and Hazel turned his thoughts to the raid and the difficulty he foresaw of getting the hutch rabbits to go the distance back to the warren. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I want to reach for my stuffed rabbit, but I’m frozen. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z A rabbit whose faint pulse could just be heard, magnified in the confined tunnel. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z A square of night sky, the same deep blue of the stolen rabbit rice bowl, was framed on the storage room wall. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z He was holding the blue rice bowl with the white rabbit painted on it. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z Pinmei watched as Yanna hollered and the soldiers began to chase her, a single running figure in the night, like a rabbit being chased by wolves. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z “You looked like a skinned rabbit last time I saw you. Now the rabbit is gone and only the skin and bones are left!” The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z The stranger rabbits seemed slightly disconnected by his little speech and he felt that for some reason or other he had not struck the right note in complimenting them on their numbers. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Dandelion, crouching beside Hazel, got up at the mention of “clever rabbits,” made his way across the puddled floor and returned with Blackberry and Fiver. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Whatever had happened at Nutley Copse, the Efrafans could not fight to the finish against rabbits like Bigwig, Holly and Silver without losing lives—probably a good many lives. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “All I have to help me is Tidbit, and that’s about as much help as a rabbit in the rice field!” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z The second half of the book showed the secrets of how to make things disappear and how to throw your voice and pull rabbits from hats. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z After all, there was nothing else to point, and rabbits are good to eat. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Ma’s mouth was hanging open and she was staring at us, like she expected somebody to pull a rabbit out of a hat. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z He had won his position not only by strength in his prime, but also by level-headedness and a certain self-contained detachment, quite unlike the impulsive behavior of most rabbits. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z At the rabbit pen, footprints showed where groups of Smokies had been moved in and out through the gates, a whole community turned into cattle. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Little rabbits, you know, always have games together before they go to bed. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z I grabbed them and then gave out a little high-pitched cry, similar to that of a rabbit. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Head down, tail flying, the young dog gave' chase, swerving and turning in pursuit, but always the rabbit was just out of reach of his hungry jaws. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z It is amazing what a single owl can do to a local population of ruffled grouse and rabbits in just a few months. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z I arrive at Jax’s door at the same time as the robot, rabbit, and dragon. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z It had caught numerous rabbits, several squirrels, and a groundhog. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z I close my eyes and Uhmma sings the mountain rabbit song. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z “No,” said Abilene, “I’m afraid that he’s not the kind of rabbit who likes to be held by strangers.” The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z Other than a rabbit starving in the next room and an imminent attack on your salad bowl, nothing, I thought. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z I would separate from them and Big Boy and I would go to a point where I figured that the rabbit, returning, would have to pass me first. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z The rabbit hops up to him and paws at his feathers and touches his pink nose to Quetzalcoatl’s face. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z The light returned early to the high down, but the rabbits did not stir. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Roast rabbit is marvelous under any conditions, but when you’re cold and hungry it is superb. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z They had learned a good deal about elil from some source or other and seemed sure that few wild rabbits survived for long. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z There’s plenty of cover for rabbits—standing corn, hedges and banks—but no real woodland: just great, open fields of light soil with big white flintstones. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “No. Well, the trees were singing funny camp songs to me and I think I saw a big rabbit surfing through the air. But that was all.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z It is difficult to imagine a rabbit plodding steadily on: they are not built for it. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The small boy clutched the maimed rabbit and began to cry. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z We broke the rabbits down into two general groups: those that had fur on their bellies and those that did not. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z A rabbit, it has been calculated, has something like 100 million olfactory receptors. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Again, if Fiver was right and the whole warren was in imminent peril, then of course they ought to welcome any rabbit who was ready to join them. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z In the thick gloom they could not make out the hutch, but they could both smell and hear the rabbits. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “I told you our rabbits were more cunning than the Council. I don’t think you’d really understand this part, however carefully I explained. Have you ever seen a river?” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z A band of Homo sapiens gathering mushrooms and nuts and hunting deer and rabbit did not all of a sudden settle in a permanent village, ploughing fields, sowing wheat and carrying water from the river. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “No, I’m Hawkbit,” said the rabbit who was peering over the edge. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z A rabbit, I concluded, is cute to look at, but is generally useless, especially as a companion to dogs. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z Lark made a grab for the second rabbit, but Ghost was quicker. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Every rabbit he had brought must be sent underground to dig and every blocked gap in the wall must be opened. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Here and there other rabbits were on the move. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The rabbits gave them a wide berth and came through by another gap further up, close to the gnarled trunk of an old crab-apple tree. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The stranger was a big rabbit, heavy but alert, with a rugged, seasoned appearance and the look of a fighter. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Each individual had to understand how to make a stone knife, how to mend a torn cloak, how to lay a rabbit trap, and how to face avalanches, snakebites or hungry lions. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z One day she came across a rabbit, purely by happenstance. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Buck rabbits on their own seldom or never go in for serious digging. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z For example, rabbits were not domesticated for food until the Middle Ages, mice and rats for laboratory research not until the 20th century, and hamsters for pets not until the 1930s. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z It may seem incredible that the rabbits had given no thought to so vital a matter. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z A chain of gold girded his belly and from the fob of his watch a rabbit’s foot dangled. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Both rabbits together made a curious, dancing movement of the head and front paws. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Weeds, briers, and the grasses told him there would be rabbits, pheasants, woodchucks, and mice. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z I prepare another before I retire to a tree where I continue sipping, eating rabbit, and even indulge in one of my precious crackers. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z The falcon flies off the boy’s fist, and kills rabbits and pheasants when the boy needs food. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Each time he woke, he remembered the loss of Hazel and suffered once more the knowledge that had pierced him as the shadowy, limping rabbit disappeared in the first light of morning on the down. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z It was likely enough that this rabbit had been an officer in an Owsla. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z To wolves who still were able to catch some rabbits, it had meaning that an old wolf who had lost his fangs was still eating. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z The garbage around him shifted, and the rabbit heard the sniffing and panting of a dog. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z There were no cries—no spitting of a cat, no squealing of a rabbit—only the crackling of twigs and the tearing of the grass in violence. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z At the same moment two strange rabbits, running together, leaped the bank into the wood and disappeared down one of the blocked tunnels. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Grandpa used to say that Alice in Wonderland falling down the rabbit hole was just like real life. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z I managed to shoot a dove and a rabbit—not much for five boys—and at noon we roasted them on a spit over the fire. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z For one beat of his pulse the lame rabbit’s idea shone clearly before him. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z He muttered something about Hazel being too embleer clever by half, cuffed Hawkbit off a sow thistle he was nibbling and led his five rabbits over the bank into the field. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z No doubt this is why most grown rabbits will not remain under a hovering kestrel. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Rats and mice and dogs and rabbits moved over the floor in wild panic. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z And he skitters out of there like a scared rabbit. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Brightly colored knee socks with white borders, a brown velvet coat trimmed in white rabbit fur, and a matching muff. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z The first rabbit stopped in a sunny patch and scratched his ear with rapid movements of his hind leg. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z "Speeding up the mounting process and skipping inspections buys us eleven days. If Bruce can pull a rabbit out of a hat and get done sooner, Maurice can do some inspections." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z But he plucked the weeds and filled in the rabbit holes and watered the garden, too, just in case there was something to salvage, something under the surface that couldn’t be seen. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z Servants appeared and brought rabbit pie, which was delicious. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z A clear rabbit track led from the bracken, under the fence and into the field. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The best-studied case involves what happened when myxomatosis hit Australian rabbits. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Steffens, borne upon the shoulders of four white rabbits, was carried down a flight of stairs which magically appeared in the floor. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z The rabbit sat perfectly still and his eyes grew large. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Hazel’s anxiety and the reason for it were soon known to all the rabbits and there was not one who did not realize what they were up against. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “Mow ami, if you wish to catch a rabbit you put a ferret into the hole, and if the rabbit is there he runs. That is all I have done.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z He would come home, black from the asphalt of the highway, wash himself out by the windmill, then spend the rest of the afternoon doing small, odd jobs around the rabbit pens. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I thought he had a rabbit or something.... The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z This time it pursued instantly and the two rabbits reached the undergrowth at the bottom of the steep with no more than ten yards to spare. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z She was nibbling like a rabbit, which meant she was now listening. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z “I’m Alan, by the way. I brought you a rabbit yesterday for your supper.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z Quick as a rabbit I looked under the table to see if they’d moved my suitcase. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z He saw the coyotes fleeing back into the darkness, and he saw himself opening the trap to set the rabbit free. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z But whether she did or not, here, evidently, was the rabbit who had told Holly and his companions about the troubles of Efrafa and the discontent of the does. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I ate rabbit stew and chicken when I could, same as everyone else. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z He assigned him to a permanent job at Camp 14’s pig farm, where two hundred men and women raised about eight hundred pigs, along with goats, rabbits, chickens, and a few cows. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z But he had no time to wonder what it might be, for almost immediately another rabbit appeared and limped to where Holly was lying. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Finn took a couple of rabbit punches to the kidneys before one of them grabbed a handful of his hair and yanked him upright. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z But others had come crowding round, drawn by the woman's scream and the crash of the rabbit hutch. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Like a magician producing a rabbit, he pulled out the Archimedes sphere and began tinkering with the ancient bronze dials. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Mark and Linda sat up at the same time like nervous rabbits, their ears pricking up. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z He waves his hand in front of the rabbit’s eyes, with no reaction. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z Again it came, dashing in and out through the woods quicker than a rabbit. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z “There was something I wanted to say, Hazel, about the newborn rabbits, when they’re ready to come above ground.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “Hushpuppy seems to know he is the hero of the moment,” Polly said with a smile as the dog bounded after every unfortunate rabbit or squirrel that crossed their path. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Beside a tussock of grass a little way outside the opposite copse, a rabbit was sitting and gazing at them. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The china rabbit’s heart had begun, again, to open. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z “But your werowance is quick as a rabbit. The trap did not catch him.” Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z “Hazel-rah, I’ve been quite close to that wood you spoke of,” he said, “and there are two rabbits playing about on a patch of short grass just outside it.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The giant rabbit shuddered before smoothing his whiskers down and straightening his ears. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z She grinned, made a mental note to be quicker, and walked carefully along the rabbit trail. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z He circled his hands over the bike, like a magician about to pull out a rabbit; then he popped open the seat to show us the cargo pocket. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z But after a certain number of rabbits had been pogrommed, an almost supernatural peace descended over the neighboring barnyard. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z They shot rabbits and peeled bark for soup to eke out their scarce provisions. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Polite said I throwed up so plentiful that didn’t no deers nor rabbits die in the woods for five years after. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z I didn’t know how to explain to him that since Yakov’s death, the world had turned upside down, everything going topsy-turvy like a tumble down a rabbit hole. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z “Yes,” said Pellegrina without taking her eyes off Edward, “who would watch over Abilene if the rabbit were not there?” The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z The boy ducked, looked around with a terrified expression, and ran for it, doubling back and forth like a rabbit. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z The spot next to the rabbit stayed vacant for some time. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z Faced with no crisis of action and with nothing to prevent them from continuing their life in the warren as before, the rabbits were nevertheless overcome by the conviction that their luck was gone. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Almost all the rabbits had followed them down. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z My mother sold her rabbit fur coat to the wife of a Spanish radio station disc jockey. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The thought of rabbits being killed, skinned, and cooked suited her mood. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z As the last rabbits disappeared underground the Wide Patrol, which had followed them from Caesar’s Belt with superlative skill and discipline, veered away in a half-circle to the east and then turned for Efrafa. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “If my authority goes, where will yours be in half a day? Aren’t you the most hated officer in Efrafa? That rabbit’s got to be killed.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z After that, she picked up the needle and looked at the white rabbit on her bowl. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z Crouched atop the rock that had sheltered him during the night was the rabbit keeper, wrapped in a black cloak so large it drowned her. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z He got to spend the day with Pa watching rabbits and I had to sit in a room of kids who hated me, looking like the dunce that I am. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z Like cottontail rabbits and chaparral birds and a baby possum that sulked and lay like dead for the first several hours until he finally decided that Arliss wasn’t going to hurt him. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z We went over to the meadow to catch a rabbit for her; as we passed one of the hemlocks near the edge of the grove, she pulled her feathers to her body and looked alarmed. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z I’m floating back to the elevator bank, my limbs and bookbag and good-luck rabbit foot drifting around me as if suspended in the syrupy ooze of celebration. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z I did not get the free basket with candy eggs or a photo with the fake rabbit. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z He had put wire all round the garden to keep rabbits out. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z In the fields of Sandleford the rabbits had seen men almost every day. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Ridgeway ran them down as if they were rabbits and then his fists subdued them. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Then he opened his eyes and raised his head, pouching out his cheeks and sniffing at the two rabbits beside him. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The rabbit dæmon opened her round eyes and gazed fearfully at the President, and then shut them again and hid her face. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z “We’re just simple rabbits, Bigwig and I. Do you mind explaining?” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “Now you look like a rabbit on the run.” The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z At this moment he saw a rabbit come rather hesitantly out of the hole furthest from himself. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes, watching the rabbits in their pens, I’d think, I’m no different from you, poor things. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Hasn’t he got another rabbit to pull from his bag of tricks?” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z Cal said, “We could cook that old rabbit and have him for our supper and stay out all night.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The rabbits and porcupines shared the shade beneath the trees and the frogs and fish shared the cool brown waters of the forest pond. Terrible Things: An Allegory of the Holocaust 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z His fur was matted and twitching, as if his muscles were spasming, and the giant rabbit was gritting his teeth with effort. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z “In there,” the rabbit said, motioning toward a circular opening through a stone wall, “is the Old Man of the Moon.” Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z The box contained nothing but junk—a headless doll, some dirty lace, a rabbit skin. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z These days, there were no rabbits about, but within the walls of the prison lived a large colony of wild cats. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Pattie and I stand in the entry and stare at the stacks of newspapers, magazines, and mail surrounding the discount lawn furniture, which I decide is the exact color of a white rabbit's eyes. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z “He jumped down into that railroad ditch and took off like a frightened rabbit.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z At this, all four rabbits felt the trance of utter panic. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Now that it was over there was only her heart like a rabbit and this terrible hurt. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z “We’re afraid of too many. But a bird from the air would be awkward, especially if it came fast. It might get the better of even a big rabbit if it took him by surprise.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z It scuffled savagely and for an instant the three rabbits saw its round, dark eyes looking straight down the run. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I think of the rainbow serpent god and the rabbit who saved his life. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z All I can do is follow the others, the rabbits and deer and I even spot a wild dog pack shooting through the woods. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Many rabbits spend all their lives in the same place and never run more than a hundred yards at a stretch. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “A rabbit warren. Underground are passageways and burrows.” Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z As he spoke, a third rabbit came swimming out from under the bridge. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z They went slowly, rabbit fashion, hop, step and pause. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z She ate what was now delicious rabbit to her. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z We chanted this most powerful of our arsenal of insults as long as we could see the green stems and rabbit fur. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z Above and under ground, the rabbits fell naturally into a quiet, undisturbed rhythm of feeding, digging and sleeping. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Only a moment ago, the rabbit had thought that being naked in front of a shipload of strangers was the worst thing that could happen to him. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z Cordelia tries to look at them sincerely, head-on; they are blinded by the glare, and freeze like rabbits in a headlight. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z But all three rabbits could sense that not far below them there lay a hollow space. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z On this she had placed her sleeping skin, a moosehide bag lined with soft white rabbit skins. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Together they kept the rabbits and groundhogs from eating the farmers’ crops and the rats from eating the corn stored in cribs and bins. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Tobacco, naturally: a good deal of cat and rather less dog and then, suddenly and beyond doubt, rabbit. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Probably there were cats and rabbits and chickens and ducks too. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z “There’s something wrong,” said Hazel, staring at the approaching rabbits. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z She wasn’t a rabbit’s foot to carry with you on the voyage but the locomotive itself. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Hay rustled as a rabbit leaped restlessly about in its pen. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Bigwig was the last rabbit he wanted to quarrel with. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z A rabbit stopped and watched him, and he locked eyes with the rabbit and, for those short moments, only he and the rabbit knew where he was. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z “How much,” he asked, “is that family of rabbits over there?” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z “Yes, we mean to get there. It’s going to be hard going with so many rabbits, and there’ll be Efrafan patrols to dodge, I expect.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Blackavar’s weary, dragging gait was like that of no other rabbit. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The next moment all the rabbits leaped up in panic. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Then, the smile drops from his face and he turns still as a rabbit, waiting for a rattlesnake to strike. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z “You push, Bigwig. Tell that rabbit inside to get down.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z In the green half-light, at the mouth of one of these holes, two rabbits were sitting together side by side. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z A few animals rummaged for food, and Tally watched in silent horror as a stray rabbit was taken by a wolf, the short struggle leaving only a patch of blood and for. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z But she was upset by the idea of killing the rabbit in cold blood. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The other rabbit spoke from in front of him. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “It was the best stew I ever made,” she said, “and I ate up every bit of it, but I was sorry for the way those poor rabbits died.” Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z There were also many rabbits—large, gray ones with a mix of reddish fur, smaller fast gray ones that he saw only at dawn. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z “Squirrels and rabbits don’t bother nobody. Why would he shoot them?” As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z He thought for a bit, while he took out his knife, cleaned and whetted it, and began to dress the rabbits. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z A human ear would hardly have heard them, but to the rabbits the air was full of their calls. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I can hear the occasional hoot or howl, my first clue that I'll be competing with natural predators for the rabbits. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z She and the rabbit landed with a thud in the box. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z He was thin, but not skinny, for he lived quite well on the mice and rabbits in the field. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z She looked around the clearing then and found that she was surrounded by all manner of forest creatures—owls and foxes, dormice and squirrels, bees and deer and rabbits. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z And she could dig for roots in the forest, even run down some rabbits. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The scratching of the hens turns the chips and the rabbits’ nitrogen-rich urine into valuable compost. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z The men had milked the cows in the early morning and then had gone out rabbiting, without bothering to feed the animals. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z “After a while, the man came upon a rabbit. He lifted his bow, but the honeyguide flew over his head and cried, ‘Leave it, O hunter. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z She skinned the rabbit, saving the fur to line her new mitten. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z With a word of agreement, Hazel went out to call the rabbits together. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z It became even more plain that the ground near the river was too wet for rabbits. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z He had seen plenty of rabbits, and there were waterfowl on the ponds. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z He put out food for the rabbits, but not too near the warren. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The birds kept planting weeds in our garden, Miss Maggie wanted fresh straw in her rabbit hutch, and I had yet to pick the blue mussels that we’d be steaming for our supper. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z He continued to listen, sniffing the close air, while the five rabbits dropped one by one into the burrow. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z You know the print of every animal moving through the dirt—deer, raccoon, rabbit, bear. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z He felt that he could have walked upon a feeding rabbit and caught her up by the ears, furry and kicking, before she knew of his presence. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Usually I was picking up stones to have ready for stray rabbits that crossed our path, but today my thoughts kept my soul in a shroud. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The rabbit’s fur pressed through the wire, and white wisps of it floated away in the sunlight like tiny clouds. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Sutic’s eyes darted here and there like those of a cornered rabbit. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z I get a good haul from the traps—eight rabbits, two squirrels, and a beaver that swam into a wire contraption Gale designed himself. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z I eat half the rabbit as I go, then wrap up the leftovers in my plastic for later. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z We hunt some more, and the other two boys also get rabbits. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z For long moments it gazed and the rabbits remained motionless, staring back without a sound. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z A rabbit in fear of an enemy will sometimes crouch stock still, either fascinated or else trusting to its natural inconspicuousness to remain unnoticed. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s best to say so and try to get things clear. Can we trust you? Are there many other rabbits here? Those are the things we want to know.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z He blinked his eyes and looked away to the shade below the cliffs where the rabbit brush was green and yellow daisies were blooming. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z The story of a bunch of rabbits trying to make their way in the world? The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z You know what they say—‘Rabbit underground, rabbit safe and sound.’ Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “A rabbit, I reckon. It’s got whiskers. And rabbit ears, or the shape of rabbit ears at least.” The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z I wonder how hungry I’d have to be to eat a rabbit. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z The rabbits had been frightened by what had happened to Acorn and to the doe, and remained squatting miserably, half in and half out of the bilge. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Many people were under the impression that I owned a badly behaved rabbit.” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z “But are there any on these hills? How do we find out? The wind never brings the least smell of rabbits.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z We ate wild verdolagas and rabbit and birds, which Papa hunted with a rifle he borrowed from a neighbor. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Already several of the rabbits were asleep, crouched uneasily between the thick stems, aware of the chance of danger but too tired to do more than trust to luck. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Gohannas was close cronies with some other men who, some Saturdays, would take me and Big Boy with them hunting rabbits. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z At Eastwatch someone had sewn him a motley cloak of beaver pelts, sheepskins, and rabbit fur. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z There wasn’t room for anything bigger than a rabbit to hide. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z A white rabbit hopped beside me, and for a moment I thought it was a blob of snow that had fallen out of the sky. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z In the Sandleford warren no rabbit of his age would have been asked to tell a story, except perhaps to a few friends alone. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Now he could no longer see the limping rabbit ahead. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I hold the rabbit foot so tight that I bet some distant, footless bunny must be wincing or shouting. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z Before they went underground Hazel talked to almost all the rabbits. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Then there was the day when I asked him to teach me how to make the snares he used to catch rabbits and birds. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z “You went into the farmyard and the shed where the hutch rabbits were. This is much less dangerous. Come on—they’re all watching while we hesitate.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z He looked tired out, but as soon as he saw the other rabbits he came on faster and made his way to Bigwig. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z A snowshoe rabbit trail ran along the lake and she set off to find the resting place of the one who had made it. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z She had both hands on her hair, pulling it back from her face like a skinned rabbit and fanning her neck in the back. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The patrol had picked up the scent of a fairly large party of rabbits evidently coming toward Efrafa from the north. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Gray lace curtains hung at the single window between them, and beside the window was a black table supporting an old- time TV set with rabbit ears. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z The rabbits’ anxieties and strain in climbing the down were different, therefore, from those which you, reader, will experience if you go there. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The vacation was over and the Truebas returned to the city laden with jars of candy, preserves, boxes of fruit, cheese, pickled chicken and rabbit, and baskets full of eggs. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z During the afternoon of the following day, while the Off Fore Mark were at silflay, he came limping through the sentry line with a straggling handful of six or seven rabbits. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z It's a long walk back to the cave though, even going downward, even with the rabbit to give us a boost. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z I moved the throttle to the rabbit position—it had been on turtle—and pushed the left pedal down, and the blade started whirring. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z I am blonde too but not as much as a white rabbit. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The bottom was covered with fine silt and mud that was half water and in this the two rabbits had made furrows as they dragged themselves to shore. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z And mother rabbits would tell their kittens that if they did not do as they were told, the General would get them—the General who was first cousin to the Black Rabbit himself. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z When we were hungry we stole apples and plums from the marketplace and darted away like rabbits when the vendors shouted after us. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z “And how would you like to look out the back window and see a rabbit? Or maybe even a raccoon?” Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z Mulch’s internal compass steered him true, and within minutes he could feel the gentle vibrations of the rabbits loping along their tunnels. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z Dead rabbits, muskrats, opossums, and fish were also found in numbers, and one of the local schools made the collection of insecticide-poisoned birds a science project. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z A lot of rabbits said there was nothing in it, but some thought that Fiver might have foreseen men with guns and ferrets. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z We’d catch frogs, rabbits, muskrats—basically whatever creatures happened along our stretch of the creek. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z "The rabbit will taste good. I don't even mind about the blood and all." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “And what we have here, what you have so graciously delivered to me, is definitely a rabbit, but the best chef in the world would be hard- pressed to make him into a pie.” The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z At first glance, it appears to be clean, but when you look closer, there are crumbs and filth everywhere—dust bunnies the size of rabbits. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z He went down the run until he came upon a young rabbit sleeping as best he could outside an overcrowded burrow. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “Dis bad rabbit, pig fella, ’e go fight me. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Evidently, since it could not think of any better plan for itself, it was ready to try a rabbit hole to save its life. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z She would go to thrift stores and buy old stuffed animals—faded teddy bears, ratty plush dogs, threadbare rabbits—the cheaper the better. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z During the course of that week, at different places along the coast, his seventeen sons were hunted down like rabbits by invisible criminals who aimed at the center of their crosses of ash. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z He is a rabbit, but he is that cold, bad dream from which we can only entreat Lord Frith to save us today and tomorrow. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “I am a farmer of wild foods—wild rabbits and pheasants, wild cattails and hickory nuts and walnuts.” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Most people, when they think of an animal, think of a creature with hair, such as a dog or cat, a rabbit or a mouse, a horse or a cow. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z I jumped up from the couch, which must have startled Joe, because he dropped the rabbit ear antenna he was fiddling with. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z And just like the story I’ve heard before, Quetzalcoatl is impressed with the rabbit’s willing sacrifice and generosity. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z The leaves rustled again more lengthily while you could count a hundred, and then Maid Marian, who had done the rabbit’s thump, was surrounded by her band of twenty plus two. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z It was early morning and the rabbits were beginning to silflay, coming up into clear gray silence. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Then he announced that he was going to shoot us some rabbits for dinner with a bow and arrow. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z Blackberry’s reasoning had been first-rate and Bigwig had at least shown which way any sound-hearted rabbit would be likely to lean. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I asked one of these Owslafa what was the matter and he said that this rabbit, Blackavar, had been caught trying to run away from the warren. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Since it was a snappy gold-colored day, we went off to get some more rabbit skins to finish my winter underwear. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Here they were stopped by a large, heavily built rabbit—one of the Owsla. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The forests along the edge of Ardestan are full of foxes, owls, rabbits, and pheasants. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z Any fascination could mark a newborn: melons, rabbits, wisteria, rope, and, more than a shed snakeskin, a wild woman is the worst of all. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z There was another rabbit waiting and he was under special guard—Owslafa, they call them: the Council police. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z It is true that every rabbit fears the fox and will bolt if it smells one. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The hutch rabbits seemed at once bewildered and fascinated. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The little rabbit cowered in the grass while his mother was killed before his eyes. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z He could hear a rabbit moving behind him, but the run was so narrow that he could not have turned even if it had been safe to do so. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Ferrets were domesticated in Europe to hunt rabbits, and cats were domesticated in North Africa and Southwest Asia to hunt rodent pests. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The authors write as if everyone knows what the “rabbit illusion” is, but I’ve been in this business for nearly forty years and had never heard of it. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Often it would take all a leader’s courage and skill to complete his task and bring his rabbits—or some of his rabbits—back to the warren. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The Efrafans usually kept fairly close together in the open and it had not occurred to Campion that other rabbits might straggle more widely. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z As Eilonwy had said, the passageway was more comfortable, for they could walk side by side without crouching and scuttling like rabbits in a warren. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z “I come here for the Mark to see me,” said the rabbit in his low, drained voice. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z He knew how to encourage other rabbits and to fill them with a spirit of emulation. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Like all wild animals, rabbits can swim if they have to: and some even swim when it suits them. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z And then quickly, so quickly that Minli barely thought about it, she turned into the house and grabbed the two copper coins from the white rabbit rice bowl. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z As he pulled himself out, he looked round among the sopping rabbits in the alders. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z David, Sammy, and I buried the bird and headed quietly back to camp to eat rabbit. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z A rabbit jumped up and ran toward a thicket of spiny hawthorn trees. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z As he did, he told Calamity, “You know, you could help with the squirrels and rabbits.” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z If there was any other way...Pulling the rabbit’s body through the hole, Mulch rehinged his jaw and began screaming. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z Sam laughed and gave her his leftover rabbit stew. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z “Well now, aren’t you the big comical rabbit? Let me tell you, my fine gentleman bucko, you won’t be half so funny when the Scourge is done with you. No sir!” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z The rabbit stretched out one hind leg lazily in the warm sun. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The future is a trickster rabbit, full of surprises. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z He was no fool and it was, he could not help feeling, extremely odd that any right-minded rabbit should choose to walk into Efrafa of his own accord. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z This close, my brother smelled like a little animal, a rabbit perhaps, that lived under bushes in fear of hawks. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z I shake my head like a frightened rabbit. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z If he was terrified, why did he not run for safety, as any sensible rabbit would? Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Like us, they were against eating rabbit and pork; they followed the Mosaic dietary laws. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z I tie the rabbit’s hind feet to a piece of gut and hang it around my waist. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z “Well, look here,” said Hazel, “we’ll finish this meeting now. Let’s wait and see what we decide—that’s the rabbits’ way. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “Twice a month, my uncle gets a rabbit from the pet store. They gave this one to him for free ’cause it’s blind.” Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z He could outrun startled rabbits, outrun a bird in flight. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z A strong rabbit could break his neck in a snare. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z And, of course, there were a lot of silent ones out there hunting rabbits in their dogged, loping style. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Then, on the instant, all the rabbits froze motionless. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “No . . . . you tell it. It ain’t the same if I tell it. Go on . . . . George. How I get to tend the rabbits.” Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z Standing up, i threw my rabbit bones in the fire and wiped the grease off on my pant legs. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z His rabbits would be exposed to view and unable to bolt, except along the road. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Then Genie said, “Don’t seem like the rabbit had good luck at all.” As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z She was in the yard below, holding this old rabbit foot. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z "What's your name?" he said, coming over and disengaging the rabbit from the snare. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Hazel made his way through the grass, roused the first rabbit he found—who happened to be Bluebell—and sent him to fetch Bigwig, Blackberry and Fiver. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z When we get the coupla acres I can let you tend the rabbits all right. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z Behind him came a hefty, brisk-looking rabbit something over twelve months old. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z When they reached the cave, they found a fire, a rabbit roasting, and Serafina Pekkala stirring something in a small iron pot. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z That night, l’m lying in my sleeping bag thinking about the rabbit and the snake. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z “What sort of rabbits are they? They left Bigwig to die. You all heard Cowslip in the burrow. They’re cowards. Let’s drive them out—kill them! Take the warren and live there ourselves!” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z A big swamp rabbit came running down the riverbank as if all hell was close to his heels. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z We knew that all those rabbits that had shaven bellies—our scientific knowledge adequately covered this point because it was our job to shave the rabbits—were undergoing Aschheim-Zondek tests. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z He leaped like a rabbit and ran to the kitchen. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z Birds and animals such as rabbits were nowhere to be seen. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z Mrs. told me to try on her royal blue coat, a winter coat with rabbit fur around the collar and cuffs. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z The gull was away several days—longer than the rabbits had expected. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z He sat bent over his knees and he whispered, “Now I won’t get to tend the rabbits. Now he won’t let me.” Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z I scowled and, realizing I had my hands out in front of me like a rabbit sitting up, I jerked them behind my back. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z In less than a minute the little band of rabbits had disappeared into the dim, moonlit night. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “Probably off somewhere making sure the rabbits are making more rabbits,” I said. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z A pair of brown-and-orange beetles, disturbed by the feeding rabbits, took off from a grass stem and flew away, still coupled together. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The little rabbits turned round at the interruption and in a moment had tumbled up the side of the hollow, squeaking “Hazel-rah! Hazel-rah!” and jumping on Hazel from all sides. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The spell breaks and I try to re-see the rabbits, so tame through having never been hunted, that played in the hedges and along the road. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z He takes the rabbits and places them on a wooden board. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It was very hot and some of the rabbits were showing signs of exhaustion. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The rabbit who was coming was running in a curious, headlong manner. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z She could imagine Yellow Kettle beading them, lining them inside with the silkiest rabbit fur and pieces of an old wool blanket. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z And the one fear of every rabbit in it is that men are going to find them and infect them with the white blindness. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I turned to see my mother jumping up and down, like a rabbit, ululating, which is how we celebrate. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z Soon after, all the rabbits had come together in a kind of hollow. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The rabbit looked extremely like the one painted on her blue rice bowl. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z From where they sat, the rabbits could look straight ahead upstream, and downstream to their left. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The other rabbit evidently had no fear that they might set upon him, hrair to one, and kill him. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z They were just starting on it when two larger rabbits came running across from the other side of the nearby cattle wade. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “You’re going to weed the garden and then you’re going to string up the new chicken wire Dad bought to keep the rabbits out.” The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z “I can’t even say ‘hair pie,’ ” I told him, “unless I’m talking about an actual pie made out of rabbits. Cool driving gloves.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z No woods, no cover, no rabbits: and night setting in. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The work went on in shifts and the rabbits took it in turns to feed, play and lie in the sun above ground. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z He was slipping down some comic book rabbit hole. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z The last egg was inside a big basket of chocolate rabbits and yellow marshmallow chicks. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z “They’re fine. I made them some bows and arrows and they went hunting rabbits in the river bottom. I’m not keeping the pan hot though.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z As soon as twilight fell and Thlayli and his rabbits had gone underground, they would come along the ridge and attack the warren. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The second figure—a rabbit as big as a kindergartener—twitched nervously and snapped, “Of course I’m sure, John! Hurry up! We need to get this over with.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z The direwolf had a rabbit in his mouth and another dead and bloody on the ground before him. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “I didn’t know rabbits needed help with that.” Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z “Let’s talk about something else. I wanted to apologize for my partner, Tandy. Caputo is a hound. Did you know that hare hounds can pick up the scent of a rabbit on concrete?” Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z “If there really are some other rabbits there, we’d better bring them back with us, hadn’t we? We could do with a few more.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z They were in open country, at night, away from any refuge but an overgrown ditch, with a rabbit who smelled of blood, was crying uncontrollably and looked as though he could not move. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “That sort of rabbit doesn’t hop out of the grass.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z |
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