It also mentions a hare-like animal, now male then female, and the Somal behind Cape. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
The hare-like patch is visible in every land, and suggested the animal to all observers. From Wordnik.com. [Moon Lore] Reference
A Wolpertinger from Warcraft is small hare-like critter that has the head, body, feet, and tail of a hare with bird wings, antlers, and fangs. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-04-01] Reference
In feeding, they assume a crouching, hare-like position, resting on the fore paws as well as on the hinder extremities, while they browse on the herbage. From Wordnik.com. [The Illustrated London Reading Book] Reference
Others may soon follow the same dismal route, including the beautiful cloud rat of the Philippines, the hare-like mare of Argentina, the vizcacha of southern South America, and the gentle hutias of the Caribbean. From Wordnik.com. [15 Agouti] Reference
He was coltish and angular, with timid, hare-like eyes. From Wordnik.com. [Hocken and Hunken] Reference
Shelton scrutinised her face; it was hare-like, and superior as ever. From Wordnik.com. [The Island Pharisees] Reference
Why when hare-like and rabbit-like animals were formed to live on the Savannahs of La Plata, were they produced on the peculiar. From Wordnik.com. [The Foundations of the Origin of Species Two Essays written in 1842 and 1844] Reference
It also mentions a hare-like animal, now male then female, and the Somal behind Cape Guardafui tell the same tale of their Cynhyænas. From Wordnik.com. [Arabian nights. English] Reference
It was like coursing a hare, for hare-like in his pains, he began to scream -- not very loudly; a wretched, wrung and wiry appeal, like some bad woman's, was all he could muster. From Wordnik.com. [The Fool Errant] Reference
When I knew her she was already a gaunt old woman, with delicate but insignificant features, little curved hare-like teeth in a tiny little mouth, with a multitude of tight little curls on her forehead, and dyed eyebrows. From Wordnik.com. [A Reckless Character And Other Stories] Reference
They say that he's a charlatan, but everybody reads him, don't you know "; and over the catalogue Shelton caught the gleam of hare-like eyes. From Wordnik.com. [The Island Pharisees] Reference
Who can run with hare-like swiftness. From Wordnik.com. [Kalevala, Volume I (of 2) The Land of the Heroes] Reference
And when the immigrant settler takes axe amid the deep backwoods, to lay open for the first time what he deems a new country, the great trees that fall before him, -- the brushwood that he lops away with a sweep of his tool, -- the unfamiliar herbs which he tramples under foot, -- the lazy fish-like reptile that scarce stirs out of his path as he descends to the neighboring creek to drink, -- the fierce alligator-like tortoise, with the large limbs and small carpace, that he sees watching among the reeds for fish and frogs, just as he reaches the water, -- and the little hare-like rodent, without a tail, that he startles by the way, -- all attest, by the antiqueness of the mould in which they are cast, how old. From Wordnik.com. [The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed] Reference
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