18 Words to use with partridges

He was very hungry and thirsty too, and so when he had found a few small white partridge-berries and had made a poor supper on them, he gathered some dry grass into a little heap, and lying down in it, was soon in a sound sleep.

Charles Fox, partridge-shooting, to the Hon.

The opening day of the partridge season proved bright and pleasant.

Curiously enough I missed the corncrake's well-known call in the meadows by the river in the springtime of 1897; and not one was bagged in September by the partridge-shooters.

And some days ago I was bidden to write and invite the guests for the first big partridge drive.

A franklin, or country gentleman, mixes with the company, with a white beard and red complexion; one of Epicurus's own sons, who held that ale and wheaten bread and fish and dainty flesh, partridge fat, were pure felicity; evidently a man given to hospitality, "His table dormant in his hall alway Stood ready covered all the longe day.

If one must bitter weep No man will see his tears, If sadly bowed his head None save the partridge jeers.

"The next morning, as I entered the garden gate, I saw a partridge lie dead on the walk.

Do you know the wild partridge-pea of the pine barrens, that scatters its seeds with a faint report when the pods are touched?

All as a partridge plump, full-fed, and fair, She form'd this image of well-bodied air, With pert, slat eyes, she

Most people have, at one time or other, seen the partridge run, and consequently must know that there is no man able to keep up with it; and it is easy to imagine, that if this bird had a longer step, its speed would be considerably augmented.

Oh, I'm jus' plumb happy to tramp about An' follow my dog as he hunts 'em out, Jus' watchin' him point in his silent way Where the Bob Whites are an' the partridge stay; For the joy o' the great outdoors I've had, So why should I care if my aim is bad?

The remains of roast partridge answer very well dressed in this way, although not so good as when the birds are in the first instance only half-roasted.

But I was disappointed in finding so little meat on a partridge wing, and believed that Hedges would have chosen a leg instead of a wing, if he had pondered a moment, so I remedied the omission, and, as a result, each roasted a leg of the bird.

" The destruction of the partridge commences with this month, large coveys of which may now be seen about the stubble fields, and in the corn, if any be left standing.

On Hatherop and some other estates good partridge driving is enjoyed.

Partridge drumming.

These melancholy matters I forbear: But let me tell thee, Partlet mine, and swear, That when I view the beauties of thy face, 410 I fear not death, nor dangers, nor disgrace: So may my soul have bliss, as when I spy The scarlet red about thy partridge eye, While thou art constant to thy own true knight, While thou art mine, and I am thy delight, All sorrows at thy presence take their flight.

18 Words to use with  partridges