"Partridge" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... which they had lying there upon the shore and out of which they had taken at noon some fine fish, but at present the water was too high. Another of his sons had been out shooting, but had not shot anything; though the day before he had shot a woodcock and a partridge before the door of the house, which we must taste this evening with still some other things. Also because we were there the fuyck must be lifted again, from which they took out two fine bass, of a kind we had not yet seen. They ...
— Journal of Jasper Danckaerts, 1679-1680 • Jasper Danckaerts
... her decidedly better, and so I am sure she is. She has more appetite. She really ate the breast of a partridge to-day!' ...
— Hopes and Fears - scenes from the life of a spinster • Charlotte M. Yonge
... inhabitant. The list of captives is not quite complete. Compare the lists given by Stephen Williams at the end of his narrative. The town records of Hatfield give various particulars concerning the attack on its unfortunate neighbor, as do the letters of Colonel Samuel Partridge, commanding the militia of the county. Hoyt, Antiquarian Researches, gives a valuable account of it. The careful and unwearied research of Mr. George Sheldon, the lineal descendant of Ensign John Sheldon, among all sources, public or private, manuscript ...
— A Half Century of Conflict - Volume I - France and England in North America • Francis Parkman
... Saxons jaw Aboot their great concerns, But bonny Scotland beats them a', The land o' cakes and Burns, The land o' partridge, deer, and grouse, Fill up your glass, I beg, There's muckle whusky i' the house, Forbye what's in ...
— The Man from Snowy River • Andrew Barton 'Banjo' Paterson
... hunted like a partridge on the mountains. May God deliver him, and confound his enemies!—Zoons, Mark Everard, I can fool it no longer. Do you not remember, that at the Lincoln's-Inn gambols—though you did not mingle much ...
— Woodstock; or, The Cavalier • Sir Walter Scott
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