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  • A partridge's nest was last August discovered in a plot of grass, in the garden of the Reverend Mr. M'Kenzie of Knockbourn, Shropshire.

    The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 5, May 1810

  • When you can get the bitter out of the partridge's thigh, you can make an enlightened commonwealth of Indians.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 18, April, 1859 Various

  • They are also rather fond of a fly made from a partridge's breast feather, and body of crimson floss silk.

    The Teesdale Angler R Lakeland

  • Here, as they brushed along through the woods, they delayed in order to examine a partridge's nest, to tree a squirrel, to gather some strange wild-flower opening at their approach.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 37, November, 1860 Various

  • Besides, I can eat grass; and perhaps I shall find a turnip, or a potato, or a partridge's nest with young ones still in it; and perhaps I shall be able to earn a few coppers by opening gates, or holding horses.

    Jim Davis John Masefield 1922

  • That Felipe was his friend, Alessandro knew with a knowledge as sure as the wild partridge's instinct for the shelter of her brood; but could Felipe move the Señora?

    Ramona 1921

  • Grey partridge's eggs, it is true, have been taken in

    A Bird Calendar for Northern India Douglas Dewar 1916

  • Here and there a grey partridge's nest containing eggs may be found.

    A Bird Calendar for Northern India Douglas Dewar 1916

  • In a few days both of Faith's new dresses were finished; and, greatly to her delight, Aunt Prissy had made her a pretty cap of blue velvet, with a partridge's wing on one side.

    A Little Maid of Ticonderoga Alice Turner Curtis 1912

  • Each flock is then under the absolute authority of the mother bird; and one who follows them gets some curious and intensely interesting glimpses of a partridge's education.

    Wood Folk at School William Joseph Long 1909

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