The gamekeepers said that Joe was a noted thief, and that he caught their birds and their leverets also, and that they would shoot him on sight.
The joyous notes brought the housewife to the door, checked the frolics of the wondering lambs, made the field-mice sit up and listen and the leverets prick their waking ears.
Annoyed at having to leave the clover, the leverets followed with reluctance, till presently the stillness was broken by the music of running water.
Near midnight the leverets awoke and found her gone; yet in their loneliness they uttered neither plaint nor call, nor, strange to say, attempted to leave the form, but nestled close hour after hour awaiting her return.
On the bridle-path leading to the hamlet of Crowz-an-Wra the leverets raced up and down, whilst the hare sat on the turfy border by an old cross and watched them.
But the leverets showed no fear of the kine that lay there chewing their cud, or of the ewes and lambs in the next enclosure but one, passing in and out amongst them as unconcernedly as if born and reared in their midst.
In the profound silence the beating of their pads on the hard surface was loud enough to mask the approach of a stealthy enemy; of this the leverets seemed fully conscious, for they stood motionless at short intervals and listened.
But that could not be before nightfall, so she and theleverets spent the long day unnerved by the rank scent left by the fox on the herbage.
His terrifying cat-like mew caused the leverets to stir beneath her, but she herself remained as motionless as the furze; indeed, till the sun had set, she never moved for fear of prying eyes.
There near the edge of the water the leverets confused their trails and chose their seats.
The leverets followed as if tied to her, leaping nearly as far as she did, for already they could cover nine feet in a spring.
Instantly he was joined by his sister, and never perhaps did two leverets enjoy their stolen freedom more.
Well, Mrs Leveret and Mrs Delarue went to the meeting--they were very thick just then, the Leverets and the Delarues.
It is not unfrequently "chopped" by sheep-dogs, and in certain months hundreds of leverets perish in this way.
They may be seen right on through summer and autumn, and last December I saw a brace of leverets a month old.
For a time in summer, leverets especially seek this kind of cover, and farmers and farm-labourers kill numbers with dog and gun--and this at a time when they are quite unfit for food.
Anyone, however, who has daily observed their habits, knows that there are but few months in which leverets are not born.
It is said to produce two young ones at a birth, but observant poachers know that from three to five leverets are not unfrequently found: then it is stated that hares breed twice, or at most thrice, a year.
Sometimes a brace of leverets are found in a tussocky grass clump, but these are more often allowed to remain than taken.
It was the night previous to the day on which the two Leverets came to their death at the hands of Mrs. Vance.
The Leverets had been awakened by the noise, and now hastened to the rescue.
Then as soon as you have told your story to your father, tell him mine also, and entreat him to send a force of police out here to arrest the Leverets and liberate me.
Familiar sounds from the adjoining room informed her that the Leverets were retiring.
The Leveretsdid not appear again, nor did the hound offer to molest them.
He hired the Leverets to kill me and the child also when my hour should arrive.
It has several litters during the year, averaging three leverets a litter.
Now, three tiny leverets were "kittled," and the nest occupied an almost bare place on the top of a ridge in the root-field where last season the succulent carrots grew.
To his astonishment, when he reached the gap nothing was visible by the thorn-bush; the leverets had vanished in the ferns.
As she grew older, her leverets sometimes numbered four or five, but as a rule she gave birth to three only, her productiveness being probably dependent on the ease with which she obtained food.
We must hurry, else the does will have left the leverets and gone to feed in the clover.
His mind was soon made up to the fact that the wretched leverets had vanished, and that no scenting of his keen nose could find them.
In some forward seasons there may be leverets by the second week in March.
The dam might be killed, and the leverets left to die.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "leverets" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
