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Thierry showed up all smiles with a bottle of Domaine Canto Perdrix Tavel from his personal cellar, a tasty Rosé from the Rhône Valley with a very pretty label, that they were to open later on during the show.
Seattle Bon Vivant on the Radio or How lucky can one girl be? 2005
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Thierry showed up all smiles with a bottle of Domaine Canto Perdrix Tavel from his personal cellar, a tasty Rosé from the Rhône Valley with a very pretty label, that they were to open later on during the show.
Seattle Bon Vivant on the Radio or How lucky can one girl be? 2005
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By her Perdrix was turned into the bird that still bears his name, and Dædalus beheld Perdrix, the partridge, rapidly winging his way to the far-off fields.
A Book of Myths Jeanie Lang
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To his nephew, Talus, or Perdrix, he taught all that he himself knew of all the mechanical arts.
A Book of Myths Jeanie Lang
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The great dish of the evening was _Partridge au Patten_, an English substitute for _Perdrix au chou_.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, October 1, 1892 Various
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Thence a path leads to the farm of the Perdrix, 7 m. farther, where pass the night.
The South of France—East Half C. B. Black
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On the east the coast is bounded by Rio Perdido, which the French corruptedly call aux Perdrix;
History of Louisisana Or of the Western Parts of Virginia and Carolina: Containing -1775 Le Page du Pratz
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The coach stopped with a jerk in a wider street where an avenue of plane trees and a flagged quay bordered a little river, and, looking upward, Hornblower read the sign 'Hôtel de la Poste et du Perdrix.
Flying Colours Forester, C. S. 1938
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[36] [Greek: Philostratou Eikonon Erotes.] [37] Let the reader, among other things of the kind, refer to Rubens's Jardin a Amour, made familiar by so many repetitions and reproductions, and to Van Dyck's Madone aux Perdrix at the Hermitage (see Portfolio: The Collections of Charles I.).
The Earlier Work of Titian Phillips, Claude 1897
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A truffled partridge, or the homely _Perdrix au choux_, or the splendid _Faisan à la Financière_ show that there are many more ways of treating a game bird than plain roasting him; and the peasants of the south of France had crushed the bones of their ducks for
The Gourmet's Guide to Europe Algernon Bastard 1885
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