On the subjetct of hare, in Chapter VI of his book
A Tramp Abroad, Mark Twain discusses duelling at German colleges, ending with this passage:
Again: if under the sudden anguish of a wound the receiver of it makes a grimace, he falls some degrees in the estimation of his fellows; his corps are ashamed of him: they call him "hare foot," which is the German equivalent for chicken-hearted.
From his
The Prince and The Pauper:
"It enrageth me that a man should be hanged upon such idle, hare-brained evidence!"
From
Huckleberry Finn:
"Mary Jane's nineteen, Susan's fifteen, and Joanna's about fourteen --that's the one that gives herself to good works and has a hare-lip."
From The
Gilded Age:
A fourth journal began its remarks as follows:--
The fullness with which we present our readers this morning the details of the Selby-Hawkins omicide is a miracle of modern journalism. Subsequent investigation can do little to fill out the picture. It is the old story. A beautiful woman shoots her absconding lover in cold-blood; and we shall doubtless learn in due time that if she was not as mad as a hare in this month of March, she was at least laboring under what is termed "momentary insanity."