partridge
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Schwarzman, who usually arrives by helicopter, also bought the farm next door to host pheasant and partridge shoots.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2025
After six seasons, five Christmas specials, three movies and a partridge in a pear tree, this is the end, until the next time writer and creator Julian Fellowes is struck with inspiration.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2025
The organisation said that was because gamekeepers are trying to protect their grouse, pheasants and partridge - and the profits they bring.
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2024
While many cultures and individuals still preferred slender women and muscular men, others idealized being "plump as a partridge" as indicative of both health and wealth.
From Salon ● Dec. 27, 2022
Around the bend in the trail, dragging a large dead partridge by the wing, came the cat.
From "The Incredible Journey" by Sheila Burnford
From the passenger seat, I often spotted rabbits fleeing down dirt roads and scampering under bushes, many joined by red-legged partridges.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 30, 2026
Weeks later, the disease was again confirmed at a commercial gamebird premises near Wrexham, containing more than 20,000 pheasants and partridges.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2025
There, they used to pick blueberries, hunt moose and partridges, and fish walleyed pike and trout.
From New York Times ● Jun. 17, 2023
The royal family’s 20,000-acre country estate in Norfolk, where Queen Elizabeth II enjoyed spending Christmas and shooting partridges.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 11, 2023
"Our great Hippocrates, the father of medicine, says that a bellyful is bad, and if it is a bellyful of partridges, it is worse."
From "Adventures of Don Quixote" by Argentina Palacios
