lepus

• “Don't let it dig at you, my friend," said the aristocratic lepus.”

  Fictionaut: A Corridor in the Asylum

• “The milieu also includes figures such as Emperor Norton, Queen Victoria and the "disease" lepus.”

  Diana, Warrior Princess

• ““Commentaries” puts it induces the persuasion that by lepus he means not the hare, but the rabbit, as the former would scarcely be domesticated.”

  Old Cookery Books and Ancient Cuisine

• “Some parsons "give Venus the tithes that belong to God"; others are the terror of hares: "lepus visa pericla fugit," and hearken to no chime but the "vociferations" of the hounds [619]; others trade.”

  A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance

• “According to some this natural timidity is responsible for their name; but others apparently better informed contend that it is derived from the large number of arctic hares (lepus arcticus) to be found in their country, and the aboriginal designations of some of their ethnic divisions confirms this opinion.”

  The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability

• “_Dandæus_ dixi, et tu dicis _dandy_; ergo tu es lepus, non ego -- Ah, ha!”

  Stories of Comedy

• “After Mr. Brackenridge joined me, we saw a large hare, lepus variabilis, the first I had noticed, and also a number of wolves in several directions, and returning through an extensive colony of prairie dogs, we regained the boats.”

  Travels in the Interior of America, in the Years 1809, 1810, and 1811

• “At < 101.1 > lepus: in me omnis terrae pelagique rapina est,”

  The Lucasta Poems

• “Because God knows, er, we mean, Undefined Deity or Deities Who May Or May Not Exist knows, we don't want to offend anyone with the despotic omnipotence of an Almighty Rabbit, a leaping lepus whose supernatural powers of chocolate egg distribution and religious oppression strikes terror into the hearts of ACLU directors everywhere.”

  Planet Moron

• “It boggles the mind to note that puss is a homonym and an informal name for a hare (lepus).”

  Verbatim: VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIII No 4

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