Partridge

(noun.) small Old World gallinaceous game birds.

(noun.) flesh of either quail or grouse.

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• This is chicken, he said, but we'll have partridge to-morrow. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Quite an elegant dish of fish; the kidney-end of a loin of veal, roasted; fried sausage-meat; a partridge, and a pudding. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• It is not the only reputation that has been acquired as easily, nor are such fortunate circumstances confined to partridge-shooting. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• I'll put a stuffed partridge on the top of a post, and practise at it, beginning at a short distance, and lengthening it by degrees. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• I shall write to Mrs. Partridge in a day or two, and shall give her a strict charge to be on the look-out for any thing eligible. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• On one occasion, after performing this feat, Mr. Tupman, on opening his eyes, beheld a plump partridge in the act of falling, wounded, to the ground. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• Better live on a bone, answered his lordship, with his mouth full of cold partridge. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• Thus in 1842 Reuben Partridge of America patented a machine for making splints. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Our children, freed from the bondage of winter, bounded before us; pursuing the deer, or rousing the pheasants and partridges from their coverts. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• To prove that articles can be kept and dried without losing their flavor, I had some partridges treated and dried last February twelvemonth, and I exhibit some soup made from two of these birds. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
• These insects were as large as partridges: I took out their stings, found them an inch and a half long, and as sharp as needles. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
• If you or Shelby wants to chase us, look where the partridges was last year; if you find them or us, you're quite welcome. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• Two or three months before this he had ocular proof of the effect of a hailstorm, which in a very limited area killed twenty deer, fifteen ostriches, numbers of ducks, hawks, and partridges. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• Thus, there seems to be little doubt that the stock of partridges, grouse, and hares on any large estate depends chiefly on the destruction of vermin. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.

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