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.