Partridges

Examples

• Our children, freed from the bondage of winter, bounded before us; pursuing the deer, or rousing the pheasants and partridges from their coverts. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• To prove that articles can be kept and dried without losing their flavor, I had some partridges treated and dried last February twelvemonth, and I exhibit some soup made from two of these birds. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• These insects were as large as partridges: I took out their stings, found them an inch and a half long, and as sharp as needles. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• If you or Shelby wants to chase us, look where the partridges was last year; if you find them or us, you're quite welcome. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Two or three months before this he had ocular proof of the effect of a hailstorm, which in a very limited area killed twenty deer, fifteen ostriches, numbers of ducks, hawks, and partridges. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Thus, there seems to be little doubt that the stock of partridges, grouse, and hares on any large estate depends chiefly on the destruction of vermin. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.

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