partridge

Example Sentences

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The lads arena like to get folks as 'll make their parridge as I'n made it for 'em; it's well if they get onybody as 'll make parridge at all.

From Adam Bede by Eliot, George

Ye might ha' made the parridge worse," she said to Dinah; "I can ate it wi'out its turnin' my stomach.

From Adam Bede by Eliot, George

Lor' love ye I ben't settled in no parridge.

From The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 4, July, 1851 by Various

But thee'lt know when thee gets thy parridge burnt, as it's like enough to be when I'n gi'en o'er makin' it.

From Adam Bede by Eliot, George

Well, laddie, if the worst should happen I'll just treat them to a drap parridge.'

From Our Home in the Silver West A Story of Struggle and Adventure by Stables, Gordon