A popular North American game bird; named for its call.
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Examples for "partridge "
Examples for "partridge "
1 As it grew higher it hid the leverets and the partridge chicks.
2 Yesterday I hunted; it was partridge I got, and one fine deer.
3 So even Nanahboozhoo had to confirm the name of the little partridge .
4 He specified the partridge by her cry, and the forest prowler by
5 So we sat down and ate some more of the partridge raw.
1 There were the bobwhite quail , beloved of hunters with retrievers and shotguns.
2 Its song had only 2 notes (like the call of the bobwhite quail ) .
3 Two bobwhite quail exploded out from behind one of the stumps and flew away through the trees on the opposite side.
1 A bobwhite chirped its eternal question in the taut silence that followed.
2 There were the bobwhite quail, beloved of hunters with retrievers and shotguns.
3 Its song had only 2 notes (like the call of the bobwhite quail).
4 Ruffed grouse rapidly disappearing; bobwhite becoming scarce.-(E.L. Ewbank, Hendersonville.)
5 The ' bobwhite ' is the funniest little bird.
6 Two bobwhite quail exploded out from behind one of the stumps and flew away through the trees on the opposite side.
7 Above her head, bobwhites overpopulated the oaks.
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