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  • C n'est qu'une confusion perpetuelle de la gourmandise proprement dite avec la gloutonnerie et la voracité: d'où j'ai conclu que les lexicographes, quoique très-estimables d'ailleurs, ne sont pas de ces savants aimables qui embouchent avec grace une aile de perdrix au suprême pour l'arroser, le petit doigt en l'air, d'un verre de vin de Laffitte ou de clos Vougeout.

    Notes on 'Economies of Excess in Brillat-Savarin, Balzac, and Baudelaire' 2007

  • French (for “toujours de la perdrix” or “des perdrix”) suggests a foreign origin.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Overset into universal: I am perdrix and upon my pet ridge.

    Finnegans Wake 2006

  • La troisi鑝e, nous c魌oy鈓es constamment une petite rivi鑢e, et v頼es dans les montagnes une multitude immense de perdrix griaches.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • "Henri," he said, "ne laissez pas M'sieur Bob devenir perdrix," and poor Henri looked respectfully serious, but dazed as to why he should not let me become a partridge.

    The Lake of Devils 1996

  • We drank only Burgundy, and we emptied a bottle of “oeil de perdrix” champagne and another of some sparkling wine for gaiety.

    Savoring The Past Wheaton Barbara Ketcham 1983

  • We drank only Burgundy, and we emptied a bottle of “oeil de perdrix” champagne and another of some sparkling wine for gaiety.

    Savoring The Past Wheaton Barbara Ketcham 1983

  • In the big front room, which Marko had called the lounge but which I called the bar because it had one at its far side, there were only a few customers scattered around at the tables, since it was nearly nine-thirty and by that hour the clientele were inside, busy with perdrix en casserole or tornados Beauhamais.

    The Black Mountain Stout, Rex, 1886-1975 1954

  • Emily flirted with the wing of a chicken sauté au suprême, coquetted with perdrix perdu masqué à la Montmorenci, and tasted a boudin à la

    A Love Story A Bushman

  • But as a person would starve to death on _toujours des perdrix_, so a man cannot

    The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52 Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe

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