Which preposition to use with pheasants

in Occurrences 8%

"I can't give you any tiger-shooting, but I'll promise you that you shall find plenty of pheasants in our jungle," and he laughed very gently at this mild sally.

at Occurrences 7%

Here was a man, hungry for affection, and one relation asked him to dinner next Monday, and another invited him to shoot pheasants at Christmas.

with Occurrences 6%

Colonel Newcome passed the holidays sadly without her, and Clive consoled himself by knocking down pheasants with Sir Brian's keepers; and increased his cousin's attachment for him by breaking the knees of Barnes's favourite mare out hunting.

on Occurrences 5%

Oh! how the squires swore and the farmers chuckled, when the 'Parvenu' sold the Minchampstead hounds, and celebrated his 1st of September by exterminating every hare and pheasant on the estate!

for Occurrences 4%

Mr. Murray-Hartley had prepared thousands of tame pheasants for them, Tom said, although this wasn't to be a big shoot, only to amuse them by the way; and they were all looking forward to a regular slaughter.

from Occurrences 3%

" Apropos of this, he said, "Here is a hen-pheasant from Shan Liangand in season!

of Occurrences 3%

Ain't old Harry right now, eh?' The old fox was fishing for an assent, not for its own sake, for he was a fierce Tory, and would have stood up to be shot at any day, not only for his master's sake, but for the sake of a single pheasant of his master's; but he hated Tregarva for many reasons, and was daily on the watch to entrap him on some of his peculiar points, whereof he had, as we shall find, a good many.

off Occurrences 2%

In happier autumns you and I (You by your art and I by luck) Have pulled the pheasant off the sky Or flogged to death the flighting duck; But never yethow few the chances Of pouching so superb a swag Have we achieved a feat like France's Immortal gas-bag bag.

about Occurrences 1%

He laid it at my feet with great care and tenderness, and I saw that it was a young pheasant about a fortnight old.

Which preposition to use with  pheasants