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 his look of a thoroughbred old Englishman! PATOU No, but I saw a pheasant.

In birds, during the same expedition, he killed 15,350 pheasants and 12,335 partridges.

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.

"A ungry belly makes a man desprit," wrote one, but for poaching a pheasant the hungry man was imprisoned fourteen years.

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.

The lark flew up beneath our feet, To his copse the pheasant whirr'd; The cattle from their darkling lairs Heaved up and stretch'd themselves; Almost they trod at unawares Upon the busy elves That dropp'd their spools of gossamer, To dangle and to dry, And scurried home to the hollow fir Where the white owl winks an eye.

We haven't got too many pheasants.

4; draws his character, v. 395; gives him a pheasant, i. 326; letters to him; i. 303, n. 1; ii. 175, n. 1; meets Hogarth at his house, i. 145; and Young, v. 269; sought after him, iii. 314; under arrest, helps, i. 303, n. 1; King, Dr. W., a Jacobite speech by, i. 146, n. 1; literary ladies, his, iv.

It is difficult to define any exact time to "hang" a pheasant; but any one possessed of the instincts of gastronomical science, can at once detect the right moment when a pheasant should be taken down, in the same way as a good cook knows whether a bird should be removed from the spit, or have a turn or two more.

what a nervous bird it isa golden pheasant!

On this lay the pheasant and roast until done.

Life passed amid a succession of juicy chops, gigantic sirloins, plump fowls, pheasants stuffed with pâté de foie gras, gorgeous Madeiras, ancient Ports.

It is interesting to rear a few pheasants annually.

They may be either piqué or not; partridges require roasting rather more than half an hour, pheasants three-quarters, if small, otherwise an hour; they are served with bread sauce.

Mr. Harrison scared up some coveys of the frankolin, a large bird resembling the pheasant, and enriched our larder with a dozen starlings.

As often as not this class of man is accompanied by a couple of dogs, marvellously trained in the art of hunting the coverts and "retrieving" a pheasant or a rabbit which may be crouching in the underwood.

What meate will downe your throat, when you scorne pheasant, partridge, woodcocke & coney?

Sirrah, what made you send a pheasant with one wing to the table yesterday? Amb.

Take off the flesh, and mince it finely with a little beef, lard, a few truffles, pepper and salt to taste, and stuff the pheasant carefully with this.

“But you didn’t buy English pheasants and champagne on that allowance!”

[Upholding the PHEASANT with one wing.

The silly rabbit near her lair; And captured ev'ry now and then, A pheasant in my cunning snare.

"Showing how to catch Pheasants.

"Books!" said the confidential clerk, with the smile of a gamekeeper displaying his hand-reared pheasants.