Pheasants
[fezənts]
Examples
- We will have roast pheasants and porter, plum-pudding and French wine. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- 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.
- But what is the meaning of these head-keepers and hen-pheasants? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- I say that that coachman did not run away; but that he died game--game as pheasants; and I won't hear nothin' said to the contrairey. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- All were attracted at first by the plants or the pheasants, and all dispersed about in happy independence. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- So it is with young pheasants reared in England under a hen. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- It savored of an aroma so rare that it was given preference over even the choice pheasants which had been prepared. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- It is nothing but four of those beautiful pheasants' eggs, which Mrs. Whitaker would quite force upon me: she would not take a denial. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- Here are the greatest number of our plants, and here are the curious pheasants. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- On one day, Mr. James, the Colonel, and Horn, the keeper, went and shot pheasants, taking little Rawdon with them. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
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