The red-legged, or Guernsey, partridge is very superior for the table to the common kind. From Wordnik.com. [The Lady's Country Companion: or, How to Enjoy a Country Life Rationally] Reference
PAUL KARCZMARCYK, RUFFED GROUSE SOCIETY, NEW ENGLAND: The name partridge actually comes from a European species. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 16, 2004] Reference
There is likewise a small-sized partridge, which is improperly called the quail. From Wordnik.com. [The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America] Reference
Newfoundland, is called partridge-berry, and another brown berry, unknown to us. From Wordnik.com. [A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 16] Reference
"The spring where I got the water to cool Polykarp's wound, Paulus calls the partridge's-spring.". From Wordnik.com. [Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works] Reference
Sure as the pounce of a hawk upon a partridge was the swoop of the corsairs upon the French vessel. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Golden Deeds] Reference
Two species of Tinamus and Eudromia elegans of A. d'Orbigny, which can only be called a partridge with regard to its habits. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle] Reference
Two species of Tinamus, and Eudromia elegans of A. dOrbigny, which can only be called a partridge with regard to its habits. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter VI] Reference
Perdiz is Spanish for "partridge," and its prime habitat consists of short grass. From Wordnik.com. [The Six Best (Wild) Bird Hunting Lodges in North America] Reference
"partridge" or a squirrel they invariably missed it!. From Wordnik.com. [Wrecked but not Ruined] Reference
"partridge" in the idiom of the country, the "pheasant" of the South and Southwest. From Wordnik.com. [A Man and a Woman] Reference
I am glad that the partridge gets fed at any rate. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7] Reference
The lark fell as a grouse or a partridge will fall to. From Wordnik.com. [Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children] Reference
After all, I am the better for a well-cooked partridge. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Merry from the stubble whirrs the partridge on her wing. From Wordnik.com. [Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children] Reference
"No," said Kiddie, sniffing like a spaniel after partridge. From Wordnik.com. [Kiddie the Scout] Reference
Down south the bamboo partridge abounds in places, but it is. From Wordnik.com. [Life and sport in China Second Edition] Reference
Would the pope's recent tracheotomy qualify as a partridge egg?. From Wordnik.com. ['No Moral Sense'] Reference
You are going to have some little green oysters and a partridge. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
You can not imagine what pleasure I feel in seeing you eat a partridge. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Wildlife on the property include elk, deer, antelope, grouse and partridge. From Wordnik.com. [Montana Ranch] Reference
One weekend we arrived at camp to find a dead partridge on one of the beds. From Wordnik.com. [The Biography of a Rabbit] Reference
This fowl, that resembles the partridge, should not be too fresh, like all game. From Wordnik.com. [The Italian Cook Book The Art of Eating Well] Reference
You haven't got cold partridge or a bit of pie that you don't know what to do with, have you?. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
It is hardly as if you had seen a wild creature when a rabbit or a partridge bursts away, only. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7] Reference
The child says not a word -- she trembles, she weeps, she quivers like a partridge in a furrow. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Bird, for he is as shy as a partridge, and we have never yet been able to coax him into the cabin. From Wordnik.com. [The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52] Reference
In the way of meat salads, partridge or grouse are far daintier than chicken, prepared in just the same way. From Wordnik.com. [Choice Cookery] Reference
We're the longest running reality series, we're in eighty-four countries, (sings) and a partridge in a pear tree. From Wordnik.com. [Mike Ragogna: Wednesday Windfall: Conversations with KISS' Gene Simmons, Brian Culbertson and The Weepies] Reference
The partridge and the rabbit are still sure to thrive, like true natives of the soil, whatever revolutions occur. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7] Reference
I had quite an experience -- I saw a partridge just as I entered the woods budding in the top of an old birch tree. From Wordnik.com. [Black Beaver The Trapper] Reference
Alphonse wrote of nothing, in his last letter, but of the partridge he had shot and his hunting costume; he is such a boy!. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
The cloth was white, the cutlery bright, the oysters fresh; the partridge, cooked to perfection, exhaled a delightful odor. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
We used to start hunting partridge right from the back door of the cabin and once Gordon got a bird about 100 feet up the hill. From Wordnik.com. [The Biography of a Rabbit] Reference
Birds such as the duck, goose, partridge, etc., are valuable as food, and laws are made to protect them during certain seasons. From Wordnik.com. [Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study] Reference
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