pa'tridge

She wasn't what you'd fairly call handsome, Lavina wasn't, but she was pleasant-appearin ', very, -- plump as a pa'tridge, with nice brown hair and eyes and a clean-lookin' skin.

Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885 Various

And one day he had delighted the good housewife with four nice quail, or as they were known in this section, "pa'tridge," which he had dropped out of a bevy that got up before him in the brush close to the woods where he looked for squirrel.

Darry the Life Saver The Heroes of the Coast Frank V. Webster

I would n't kill a flea -- not even if it was eatin 'up the best bird dog that ever set a pa'tridge.

The Cross-Cut Courtney Ryley Cooper 1913

Of all the wild birds that still haunt our remaining solitudes, the ruffed grouse -- the pa'tridge of our younger days -- is perhaps the wildest, the most alert, the most suggestive of the primeval wilderness that we have lost.

Secret of the Woods William Joseph Long 1909

"Got a pa'tridge; he's an old buster," said Jimmy.

Secret of the Woods William Joseph Long 1909

He was known far and wide as "the ol 'beech pa'tridge."

Secret of the Woods William Joseph Long 1909

"I can clip off the head of a pa'tridge every time, and I might have clipped his hand, and got the skin and took he back for Doctor Joe to fix up."

Troop One of the Labrador Dillon Wallace 1901

"Aye, hungry as seven bears and as happy and perky as a cock pa'tridge," boomed Skipper Zeb.

Left on the Labrador A Tale of Adventure Down North Dillon Wallace 1901

Game's been wonderful scarce, and this is the first bit o 'meat we has th' whole winter, barrin 'a pa'tridge or two in November.

The Story of Grenfell of the Labrador A Boy's Life of Wilfred T. Grenfell Dillon Wallace 1901

Her fus 'husban' were all time ahuntin ', so she got a little white marble pa'tridge arestin' on he 'head, an' hit am

Miss Minerva and William Green Hill Frances Boyd Calhoun 1888