How To Use Partridge In A Sentence
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Think roast partridge with wild mushrooms followed by a little pot of chocolate rosemary.
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The 'light' canapés include a crab salad, rose veal tartare and partridge escabeche.
Times, Sunday Times
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In between the 9th (1987) and 10th (1993) editions, the M-W lexicographers discovered that the people who had imported the bird into the western US called it simply "chukar," not "chukar partridge," and furthermore pronounced it in a completely anglicized form, not knowing or caring that that made it a homophone of some polo term.
Languagehat.com: CHUKAR.
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The "gharry" makes an excellent perambulating studio -- it is a small, high, wooden cab, with little lattice shutters instead of glass which pull up all round so that you can let down those you need for view, aft or forward, or at either side, and pull up the others and thus have privacy and light and air, and you need no stove or hot pipes, for you could roast a partridge inside!
From Edinburgh to India & Burmah
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Restrictions and slaughter provisions apply to domestic fowls, turkeys, geese, ducks, guinea fowls, quail, ratites, pigeons, pheasants and partridges reared or kept in captivity.
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The letter read: Dear Partridge, What you say is absolute twaddle.
POLITICAL SUICIDE
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Along with the common ringneck pheasant and chukar partridge, the rare ‘blue’ pheasant (listed as ‘green’ by the State Department of Fish and Game), black francolin, gray francolin, and both lace-necked and barred doves can be pursued.
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A deer was said to be broken, a cony unlaced, a pheasant, partridge, or quail winged, a pigeon or a woodcock thighed, a plover minced, a mallard unbraced.
Old Cookery Books and Ancient Cuisine
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A partridge, indeed, with a brood of ten behind her, ran forward threateningly, but soon repented of her fierceness, and clucked to her young ones not to be afraid.
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Their humbler followers , such as partridges, have a like power of strong propulsion, but soon tire.
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For many years this bird was persecuted by game preservers who believed that it was detrimental to both pheasants and partridges.
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I watched lapwings competing for nest sites on the damp fields where I also saw pheasants, grey partridges, teal and mallards.
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Thousands of the partridges, a native bird of Spain, are being bred in captivity and then released into the wild in Scotland.
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Birds such as grouse, crows, quail, partridge, nightjars, cuckoos, shrikes, larks, pipits, merlins, harriers, kestrels and buzzards would all have been seen.
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There is Malvoisia sack," said the man in black, "and partridge, and beccafico.
Lavengro the Scholar - the Gypsy - the Priest
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Forest fauna include brown bear Ursus arctos, grey wolf Canis lupus, wild boar Sus scrofa, wild cat Felis silvestris, chamois Rupicapra rupicapra, various species of eagle, capercaillie Tetrao urogallus, black grouse Lyrurus tetrix and rock partridge Alectoris graeca.
Durmitor National Park, Montenegro
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Ebenezer Peirce, a delegate from Partridgefield now Peru, in Berkshire County, noted that members of the House of Representatives were “the democratical part of the general government”—that is, the one part that was directly elected by the people—and would serve as a check on the representatives of the states in the Senate, so “the utmost caution ought to be used, to have their elections as free as possible.”
Ratification
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The mammal species that are present include goats, foxes, anteaters, rabbits and bats, while the birds are hawks, partridges, daras, pigeons, troupials and a type of cardinal.
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Drizzle the cooking liquid over the partridge and save the remainder to flavor soup stocks.
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Birds such as grouse, crows, quail, partridge, nightjars, cuckoos, shrikes, larks, pipits, merlins, harriers, kestrels and buzzards would all have been seen.
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The bittersweet flavour of glazed chicory is the perfect foil for gamey roast partridge.
Times, Sunday Times
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It led straight to the bullbrier thicket where the old beech partridge roosted.
Secret of the Woods
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One surprising inclusion was the humble partridgeberry, a plant often underfoot and overlooked.
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The roast partridge on borlotti beans was correctly brought and by no means terrible.
Times, Sunday Times
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In his cups, Partridge may have drivelled out a whole string of indiscretions, at a time when Susan was moving in and out of the kitchen about her business.
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Phasianid galliforms are commonly known as grouse, turkeys, pheasants, partridges, francolins, and Old World quail.
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The most characteristic pampean birds are the tinamous -- called partridges in the vernacular -- the rufous tinamou, large as a fowl, and the spotted tinamou, which is about the size of the English partridge.
The Naturalist in La Plata
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A covey of sprightly grey partridge look back and trundle on.
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The eight endangered species of birds are common scoter, hen harrier, grey partridge, corncrake, red-necked phalarope, nightjar, roseate tern and corn bunting.
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For the mushroom fancier the game is now on, with every shape and variety on local stalls, wild boar and young kid appear on the menu and the valleys resound to the huntsman's gun and partridge and quail hang from cottage doorways.
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The fact that a new genus of partridge was formally described just three years ago tells how little is known about a large percentage of the species in that group.
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They call this keeper 'The Crazy One'The tradition of the madcap Latin American goalkeeper began with Peru's "El Loco", Ramón Quiroga, memorably booked in the opposition half by officious English referee Pat Partridge during the 1978 finals.
Truth takes a battering in the great World Cup cliche game
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Virtually every conservation body in the land controls foxes to stop predation of a range of birds from terns to avocets to grey partridges.
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A similar thing has been seen to take place in those birds that are amative, as partridges and hens.
On the Generation of Animals
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Try the roast partridge with foie gras.
The Sun
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During the past seven years, Poppy and husband Pete, who fund the sanctuary themselves, have taken scores of animals and birds under their wing, including geese, dogs, a cow, partridge, pheasant and quail.
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There were also a number of snipe, woodcock, and red legged partridge taken.
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And he found a number of bird species, such as the corn bunting, tree sparrow, grey partridge, skylark, linnet and yellow wagtail, which have been seriously declining since the growth of intensive agriculture.
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Nor had he done it now, had not the younger sportsman, who was excessively eager to pursue the flying game, overpersuaded him; but Jones being very importunate, the other, who was himself keen enough after the sport, yielded to his persuasions, entered the manor, and shot one of the partridges.
II. The Heroe of This Great History Appears with Very Bad Omens. Book III
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Raptors are known to prey on game species, such as quails, partridges, pheasants and rabbits.
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Sickening in itself, but it reminds me of the scene in Knowing Me, Knowing Yule 'where Alan Partridge says' If the British public were asked whether they would like an Alan Partridge Christmas special or 14 kidney dialysis machines, the response would be pretty unanimous. 'anne allan
Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister?
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Rather than flapping the wings from back to belly, as other birds do, the partridges flap from head to tail.
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The following winter census showed an excellent stand of partridges.
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Squirrel can be substituted in recipes for rabbit, pheasant, grouse or partridge.
Times, Sunday Times
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It wasn't long before her cheap and fresh partridge gained popularity among the residents there.
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Nobody said a word about partridges; but it was remarkable that from each carriage that arrived there was taken a long mahogany case, followed by a tin canister and a powder flask; and that each new-comer, in the course of the first evening, invariably asked if the harvest were well in, and if the birds were tolerably strong and numerous.
The Semi-Attached Couple
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All told, the swans, geese, calling birds, French hens, turtle doves, and partridges cost over $4,100, representing about 25 percent of the overall Index.
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Her recipe for an olio required ‘a fowl, a couple of partridges, a piece of a leg of mutton, a knuckle of veal, and a few rump steaks; also a piece of good streaked bacon or ham’.
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In her diary entry for 4 June 1832, Sally Brown noted catching two partridges, probably using snares.
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A dozen of red partridges and rays were speedily brought down, and Glenarvan also managed very cleverly to kill a TAY-TETRE, or peccary, a pachydermatous animal, the flesh of which is excellent eating.
In Search of the Castaways
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All day the sun has shone on the surface of some savage swamp, where the single spruce stands hung with usnea lichens, and small hawks circulate above, and the chickadee lisps amid the evergreens, and the partridge and rabbit skulk beneath; but now a more dismal and fitting day dawns, and a different race of creatures awakes to express the meaning of Nature there.
Walden
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It is a role that sees him take responsibility for the hatching of partridge eggs, watching out for fly-tippers as well as organising foxhound, beagle and lurcher club meets and seeing to the needs of shooting syndicates.
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That the gourmand, amiable savant, is pictured as nibbling on a partridge wing (itself related to the arm which raises it to the diner's mouth) au suprême (mark of invested expertise), thus with the expertly prepared food neither completely inside or outside the mouth even as it is consumed, a circumstance that works to prolong the process of eating and its attendant pleasure, emphasizes this ambiguity.
Economies of Excess in Brillat-Savarin, Balzac, and Baudelaire
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And mourn, ye whirring paitrick brood -- [partridge]
Robert Burns How To Know Him
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And he found a number of bird species, such as the corn bunting, tree sparrow, grey partridge, skylark, linnet and yellow wagtail.
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Berry pickers would find a paradise nearby, with raspberries, blueberries, partridgeberries, bakeapples, gooseberries, marshberries, and dogberries in season.
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Squirrel can be substituted in recipes for rabbit, pheasant, grouse or partridge.
Times, Sunday Times
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And he found a number of bird species, such as the corn bunting, tree sparrow, grey partridge, skylark, linnet and yellow wagtail, which have been seriously declining since the growth of intensive agriculture.
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A typical farming village in this region attracts tree sparrows, black redstarts, gray partridge, skylarks, and hen harriers.
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Once upon a time I entered a vineyard to eat of its grapes; and, whilst so doing behold, I saw a falcon stoop upon a partridge and seize him; but the partridge escaped from the seizer and, entering his nest, hid himself there.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Many a young partridge who strutted complacently among the stubble, with all the finicking coxcombry of youth, and many an older one who watched his levity out of his little round eye, with the contemptuous air of a bird of wisdom and experience, alike unconscious of their approaching doom, basked in the fresh morning air with lively and blithesome feelings, and a few hours afterwards were laid low upon the earth.
The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club
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Raptors are known to prey on game species, such as quails, partridges, pheasants and rabbits.
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Granted, a lot of my stuff isn't really for young kids because it's collectible and worth a lot of money, like my Miss History Dolls and my Partridge Family board game.
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The ubiquitous starling is one of the most widespread problem species but blackbirds, partridges, robins, sparrows, thrushes, and finches are also common.
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We see deer and moose crossing the meadow, we have partridge on the driveway, we see foxes regularly.
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In Scotland, gamekeepers blame the buzzard, a protected bird, for the deaths of thousands of partridges, pheasants, and waders such as curlews and plovers.
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Although they're also commonly called lingonberries, partridgeberries belong to a different family than the lingonberries used in Scandinavian cooking.
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Rare orchids bloom in the island's interior and the game season from September to March brings hunters to the forests looking for duck, pigeon, and partridge.
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Birds such as grouse, crows, quail, partridge, nightjars, cuckoos, shrikes, larks, pipits, merlins, harriers, kestrels and buzzards would all have been seen.
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Set in wide margins they provide food and cover for wildlife, while the high grass shelters partridge, tree sparrows and skylarks.
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Huxtable kids* + Keaton kids + Brady kids** - Partridge kids + Macelli kids.
Y.P.R.: Ten 10s
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Kathy Partridge is executive director of Interfaith Funders, a network of faith-based and secular grant makers working to advance the field of congregation-based community organizing.
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This course could also be game, such as pheasant, wild goat, duck or partridge.
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The ad sounds convincing -- but perhaps being a word nitpicker, the Sun does now 'might not mean much if Sun has drastically cut back due to plummeting sales," Rich Partridge, an analyst at Ideas International, said in an e-mail.
Reseller News
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The paitrick whirrin 'o'er the ley. [partridge, meadow]
Robert Burns How To Know Him
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'bushing' or how, -- and if the partridge-seasons were 'excellent,' or were indifferent.
Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII.
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'There is Malvoisia sack,' said the man in black, 'and partridge, and beccafico.'
Lavengro; the Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest
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The ubiquitous starling is one of the most widespread problem species but blackbirds, partridges, robins, sparrows, thrushes, and finches are also common.
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I killed four brace of partridges, a wild duck, and a leash of hares.
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The minstrels have a fabliau of a daw with borrowed feathers — why, this Oliver is The very bird, and, by St. Dunstan, if he lets his chattering tongue run on at my expense, I will so pluck him as never hawk plumed a partridge.
The Fair Maid of Perth
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Seasonal patterns in the rates of photosynthesis were similar in shaded partridgeberry and eastern hemlock.
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A typical recipe is in Hannah Glasse's The Art of Cookery: A very thick crust enclosed a turkey, which was stuffed with a goose, the goose with a fowl, then a partridge, then a pigeon.
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We park in the draw where the hunter's dog first jumped a small covey of Hungarian partridge.
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The waitress brought them hot rolls with butter and partridgeberry jam.
THE SHIPPING NEWS
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A brace of partridges rose out of the sainfoin, and flew down the hills; and watching their curving flight
Esther Waters
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He claims that pheasant and partridge are neither wild nor natural and are not an alternative to factory farmed meat.
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Another interesting feature about pheasants is the extraordinary difference in plumage between the sexes, a gap equalled only between the blackcock and greyhen and quite unknown in the partridge, quail and grouse.
Birds in the Calendar
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Cooks in southwestern France still dispute which meats make the best cassoulet, but various combinations of pork, sausage, mutton, partridge, duck, and goose may be used.
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Thus, he lists as noblest the meat of turtledoves, starlings, doves, quails, pheasants, blackbirds, woodcock, partridge, and chaffinch.
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None are endemic, but there are several characteristic Himalayan species such as the lammergeier, golden eagle, Himalayan griffon, snow partridge (Lerwa lerwa), Tibetan snowcock (Tetraogallus tibetanus), and Himalayan snowcock (Tetraogallus himalayensis), which should be focal species for conservation efforts.
Northwestern Himalayan alpine shrub and meadows
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The chikor is extremely like the ordinary European redleg or Barbary partridge, not only in colouring, but in habit, loving the same dry, scrub-covered country, and preferring, like him, to run rather than fly when pursued.
A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil
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Partridge, however, does not recognize them, muffled up as they are at this time of night.
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The principal game birds of Britain are grouse, partridge, pheasant, plus woodcock, pigeon, quail, and various wild duck and marsh fowl.
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The restaurant also serves local wines made from blueberry and partridgeberries.
Canada.com Top Stories
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Everyone, except Mr. Blair, was sitting around the table drinking tea and eating biscuits with partridgeberry jam.
Secret of the Night Ponies
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This is the quail, which is like a little plump partridge.
Times, Sunday Times
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A 19 year old guy, when asked for the more common name of a bird that is also known as a timberdoodle, wood snipe, bog sucker, and night partridge, couldn't come up with the answer.
Saru-san Diary Entry
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Other species in danger are the brown hare, skylark, linnet, reed bunting, tree sparrow, grey partridge, bullfinch, song thrush and grass-wrack pondweed.
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There are several other high-elevation specialists, such as the Himalayan snowcock (Tetraogallus himalayensis), Tibetan partridge (Perdix hodgsoniae), snow partridge (Lerwa lerwa), Satyr tragopan (Tragopan satyra), lammergeier, and the Himalayan griffon, that also need conservation attention.
Eastern Himalayan alpine shrub and meadows
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The national _shchee_, or cabbage-soup, is better than the sound of its name; the fish, fresh from the cold Neva, is sure to be well cooked where it forms an important article of diet; and the partridges were accompanied by those plump little Russian cucumbers, which are so tender and flavorous that they deserve to be called fruit rather than vegetables.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 79, May, 1864
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The sides of the Berg were full of quail and partridge and bush pheasant, and on the grassy plateau there was abundance of a bird not unlike our own blackcock, which the Dutch called korhaan.
Prester John
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The leaves and flowers of Eastern teaberry (also known as checkerberry, boxberry, partridge berry, wintergreen berry, teaberry and mountain tea) have a mildly perfume scented aroma.
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The roast partridge is served up moist, while roast saddle of venison comes velvety soft and the colour of claret.
Times, Sunday Times
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WE'VE heard of a partridge in a pear tree - but these are pandas in a bear tree.
The Sun
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A cassoulet is a cassoulet whether it is duck or goose or partridge.
Augieland:
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Many a young partridge who strutted complacently among the stubble, with all the finicking coxcombry of youth, and many an older one who watched his levity out of his little round eye, with the contemptuous air of a bird of wisdom and experience, alike unconscious of their approaching doom, basked in the fresh morning air with lively and blithesome feelings, and a few hours afterwards were laid low upon the earth.
The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club
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The ease of these three weak and tinnier animals, the gazelle, the hare, and the partridge, was not regarded as worthy of the monarch.
The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 2. (of 7): Assyria The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations.
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There were French partridges, a hare crossed the icy wastes leaving stretched-out tracks and we discussed the advantage of stiffer soled boots for snow and the necessity of shades.
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Partridge squatted beside the ring with a sandglass — used for timing the casting of the log — in front of him.
Mr. Midshipman Easy
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The farm itself has good numbers of breeding birds and is home to yellowhammers, linnets, corn buntings, tree and hedge sparrows, along with lapwings and grey partridge.
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Allen and the actress Shirley Jones (The Partridge Family mom) cochaired the Parents Television Council, which supported advertisements that asked the question "Are you fed up with steamy, unmarried sex situations, filthy jokes, perversion, vulgarity, violence, killings, etc.?
Blood Sugar
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It's there in Magnolia, when Linda Partridge realises too late that she actually loves the dying husband she married for money, and breaks down in a chemist's: "You have the balls, the indecency to ask me a question about my life," she bellows at the pharmacist, "suck my dick!
Julianne Moore: 'I'm going to cry. Sorry'
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You talk about invasive species, you mean like brown trout, honey bees, night crawlers, ringneck pheasants, or Hungarian partridge?
The founding fathers believed that governments are instituted among men for the sole purpose of protecting human rights.
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The game - strange list - included pheasant, swan, heron, crane, curlew, partridge, plover, rails and quails, but also three different dishes of venison.
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Rather than flapping the wings from back to belly, as other birds do, the partridges flap from head to tail.
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Virtually every conservation body in the land controls foxes to stop predation of a range of birds from terns to avocets to grey partridges.
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He then rose and dressed himself as fast as he could; and while he was dressing, Partridge, notwithstanding many severe rebukes, could not avoid throwing forth certain pieces of brutality, commonly called jests, on this occasion.
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
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A group of partridge exploded out from a nearby grassy knoll.
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Place 4 oven-ready partridges into pan and put lid on.
Times, Sunday Times
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I also love partridgeberries, so we had to have something with partridgeberry for dessert.
Archive 2008-07-01
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The 16 paintings in the British Birds in Watercolour exhibition at Nunnington were completed over the past year and feature game birds grouse, partridge and woodcock as well as kingfisher, robin, whitethroat and tawny owl.
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Reviews the 250 species of pheasants, partridges, grouse, quails, turkeys, guineafowls, buttonquails, sandgrouse, and plains-wanderers of the world.
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How it got in the tree is still a mystery, since partridges are strictly ground birds.
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For men, cockfighting, partridge fighting, and pigeon flying (and betting on the outcome) are favorite pastimes.
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Even the most parvenu journalist is, or should be, taught at his first shoot that grouse and partridges are counted in brace, pheasants singly.
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They ordered the usual Hokkien staples - fish maw soup, hokkien mee (real one, the black type), sea cucumber with braised duck, steamed pomfret, and a partridge in a pear tree.
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Partridge was astonished to see the heavy man's colorless eyes enlarged with tears.
THE SHIPPING NEWS
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The letter read: Dear Partridge, What you say is absolute twaddle.
POLITICAL SUICIDE
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Grey partridge are down to a handful of coveys and look as if they will become extinct unless concerted effort is made.
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An admonishing chat from Butcher, coupled with the birth of his daughter, Courtney, at the beginning of last season prompted a change in Partridge, like a cool hand soothing a fevered brow.
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He sounds like Alan Partridge, who once observed that ‘the police are hardly going to arrest someone unless he's guilty.’
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Most game birds are also galliforms, including grouse, partridges, pheasants, quails, ptarmigans, and wild turkeys.
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Red-leg partridge, among the many game birds used here, came steeped in a dark, tealike broth that popped with sweet onions and fresh green peas.
Philly.com - Latest Videos
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Illinois bundle flower, butterfly milkweed, compass grass, and partridge peas nestle in another 20-acre plot.
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Wild birds that might be acceptable alternatives for William include woodcock, wood pigeon, partridge and grouse.
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The largest such genus, which also has a very wide distribution around the world, is Francolinus, in which the best-known species, F. francolinus, may be known either as francolin or (especially in India) as black partridge.
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The ubiquitous starling is one of the most widespread problem species but blackbirds, partridges, robins, sparrows, thrushes, and finches are also common.
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To determine whether the grey peacock belongs with the partridges or peafowl, more data are necessary.
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Along with the common ringneck pheasant and chukar partridge, the rare ‘blue’ pheasant (listed as ‘green’ by the State Department of Fish and Game), black francolin, gray francolin, and both lace-necked and barred doves can be pursued.
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In honor of this post-Brill Building popster and all the happiness he brought to kids and their parents a few decades back especially with the biggest selling single of the '70s, "I Think I Love You", I'm posting his would-be classic, The Partridge Family's "My Christmas Card To You," which is really his"Christmas" card to all of us, with a little help from his close friend, David Cassidy.
Mike Ragogna: "My Christmas Card to You," Plus Conversations With Thalía and Flo Rida
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I watched lapwings competing for nest sites on the damp fields where I also saw pheasants, grey partridges, teal and mallards.
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Angela invites me to spend a day at the Connaught where I am allowed to gut partridges, prep beef and veal fillets and trim girolles.
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It's there in Magnolia, when Linda Partridge realises too late that she actually loves the dying husband she married for money, and breaks down in a chemist's: "You have the balls, the indecency to ask me a question about my life," she bellows at the pharmacist, "suck my dick!
Julianne Moore: 'I'm going to cry. Sorry'
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Some decades ago, Eric Partridge noted in Usage and Abusage that orientate is correct as an intransitive (“to face in a particular direction”), but that orient is preferable in all other senses.
July « 2009 « Sentence first
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Some bird species utilize the region for breeding, for example, coot (Fulica atra), moorhen (Gallinula choropus) and a relic subspecies of the Barbary partridge (Alectoris barbara duprezii) utilize these patches of suitable habitat.
West Saharan montane xeric woodlands
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The letter read: Dear Partridge, What you say is absolute twaddle.
POLITICAL SUICIDE
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Poultry comprise two groups: major poultry, chicken, duck and goose, the chicken being the most important; and minor poultry, including pigeon, quail, pheasant, chukar, partridge, Guinea fowl, and waterfowl.
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On the one hand, you have the uplands: home to the ruffed grouse and the woodcock, the ringneck pheasant, the bobwhite quail, and just possibly sharptail grouse and Hungarian partridge, too.
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Others include the tree sparrow and grey partridge.
The Sun
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Restrictions and slaughter provisions apply to domestic fowls, turkeys, geese, ducks, guinea fowls, quail, ratites, pigeons, pheasants and partridges reared or kept in captivity.
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But after ordering partridge with red cabbage and creamed potato for £17, I picked my target.
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This singer, songwriter and composer is probably best known for his performance in the television series, The Partridge Family, with his step-mother, Shirley Jones.
Five People Born on April 12 | myFiveBest
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This is the quail, which is like a little plump partridge.
Times, Sunday Times
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A plain brown carpet suits it best, with a modest figure of green -- preferably of evergreen -- woven into it; a tracery of partridge-berry vine, or, it may be, of club moss, with here and there a tuft of pipsissewa and pyrola.
The Foot-path Way
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This course could also be game, such as pheasant, wild goat, duck or partridge.
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I have seen falcons kill partridges from low pitches.
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Smaller, richer-tasting meats such as pheasant, duck, partridge, pigeon, even diminutive quail are increasingly finding their way onto my Christmas table.
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The milk-cows were nipping the clovery parks, and chewing their cuds at their leisure; -- the wild partridges whidding about in pairs, or birring their wings with fright over the hedges; -- and the blue-bonneted ploughmen on the road cracking their whips in wantonness, and whistling along amid the clean straw in their carts.
The Life of Mansie Wauch Tailor in Dalkeith, written by himself
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Many a young partridge who strutted complacently among the stubble, with all the finicking coxcombry of youth, and many an older one who watched his levity out of his little round eye, with the contemptuous air of a bird of wisdom and experience, alike unconscious of their approaching doom, basked in the fresh morning air with lively and blithesome feelings, and a few hours afterwards were laid low upon the earth.
The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club
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Sainsbury's sells oven-ready partridge; pheasant (whole and breasts); game casserole; and farmed venison.
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One day, a father and son went hunting on a Northern Reserve, looking for moose and partridge for their coming ceremonial feast.
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Squirrel can be substituted in recipes for rabbit, pheasant, grouse or partridge.
Times, Sunday Times
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Alan Partridge breathes gassily into his PA's face, he says sadly: "It's going to be in the system till about four".
Life and style | guardian.co.uk
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Breeding bird species include Palaearctic marsh birds such as coot Fulica atra and moorhen Gallinula chloropus, as well as a relict sub-species of Barbary partridge Alectoris barbara duprezii.
Tassili N'Ajjer National Park, Algeria
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Then thoroughly rub each partridge with a lemon quarter so that they are well seasoned with lemon juice, particularly over their breasts.
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The partridge was great, though - well worth getting my fingers greasy.
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Alex will probably stick by David Partridge at left back because, unlike Jamie Buchan, he is naturally left-footed and he has a good, strong physique about him.
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For example, snow partridge and Himalayan monal pheasant are facing local extinction from many valleys.
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As we walked down the steep path into the nullah a brace of red-legged partridges (chikor) rose in a great fuss, and sailed gaily across the river, whose roaring gained ominously in volume as we drew near.
A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil
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Some 100 acres of his farm runs on to the Flamborough Head clifftops, next door to the RSPB sanctuary, with puffins, guillemots and gannets flying below and birds like linnets, grey partridge and corn bunting in the fields.
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Quail-like francolins are more closely related to Asiatic phasianids and partridge-like species are closer to Eurasian partridges.
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In Scotland, gamekeepers blame the buzzard, a protected bird, for the deaths of thousands of partridges, pheasants, and waders such as curlews and plovers.
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Roast partridge or young grouse will love this now, or put it away until 2018 and beyond.
Times, Sunday Times
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I also love partridgeberries, so we had to have something with partridgeberry for dessert.
Archive 2008-07-01
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In exploring the relationship between Emerson, Whitman, and Li-Young Lee, Partridge asserts that Lee as an artist is nourished by the stylistics of Emerson's and Whitman's transcendentalism.
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Two objects were deposited under the shoulder of the bottle: a piece of a long thin bone from some medium-sized bird, possibly a partridge, and a redware rim sherd from a small black-glazed bowl.
An American Witch Bottle
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A plain brown carpet suits it best, with a modest figure of green -- preferably of evergreen -- woven into it; a tracery of partridge-berry vine, or, it may be, of club moss, with here and there a tuft of pipsissewa and pyrola.
The Foot-path Way
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To cap his year, Partridge fractured a rib in a surfing accident just as he was returning to training.
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The other two species are birds discovered by the Danish ornithologists: the rufous-winged sunbird discovered in 1981, and the Udzungwa forest partridge, a new genus discovered in 1991.
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An evergreen vine, partridgeberry grows up to a foot long, with a whitish, trailing stem.
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An agouti and a cabiai, not to mention a dozen partridges, enriched the larder after this fortunate excursion.
Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon
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Squirrel can be substituted in recipes for rabbit, pheasant, grouse or partridge.
Times, Sunday Times
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There was sum variation to my business, such as catchin 'young rabbits, and findin' partridge nests, and pickin 'dewberries; but the romance wore off the first day, and by the end of the next my wife says I was as humble a man as any woman could desire.
Bill Arp from the uncivil war to date, 1861-1903,
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The roast partridge is served up moist, while roast saddle of venison comes velvety soft and the colour of claret.
Times, Sunday Times
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Why can you be assured that snipe, grouse, partridge, pheasant or woodcock is what it is, but a chicken is more likely to be a jellied flying rat?
Commenter Demands Real Shrimps or Refund from Cafe Duke | Midtown Lunch - Finding Lunch in the Food Wasteland of NYC's Midtown Manhattan
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Avifauna including rock partridge Alectoris graeca, common quail Coturnix coturnix, feral rock dome Columba livia and falcon Falco sp. have also been recorded in the park.
Göreme National Park and the Rock Sites of Cappodocia, Turkey
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A fine Example of comick Writing in this vein by Dr. Swift, may be found in The Partridge-Bickerstaff Papers.
Did yesterday's hostage crisis teach us anything about Hillary Clinton?
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The hunting dog put up some partridges.
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Sometimes it's partridgeberry pie or crisp; this time it was partridgeberry cheesecake.
Archive 2008-07-01
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Along the way, sample unique foods such as partridgeberries and bakeapples while savoring your lobster feast and all the fresh seafood your heart desires.
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My private encounter with a family of crested firebacks, one of the many stunning partridges in the area, will long remain in my mind's eye.
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Barry Atkinson carried out a record 148 days' worth of beating - or flushing out birds - at grouse, partridge and pheasant shoots.
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And his talk, we are told, during the fortnight that preceded his death, was not regret for a life we should, in seriousness, call misspent, but because partridges and pheasants no longer suited his condition, and he was obliged to be reduced to boiled meats.
The Wits and Beaux of Society Volume 1
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The eight endangered species of birds are common scoter, hen harrier, grey partridge, corncrake, red-necked phalarope, nightjar, roseate tern and corn bunting.
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They are also called cowberries, foxberries, quailberries, cougarberries, partridgeberries, beaverberries (which is an open goal for ribald single entendres), mountain cranberries and wurtleberries.
Times, Sunday Times
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The principal game birds of Britain are grouse, partridge, pheasant, plus woodcock, pigeon, quail, and various wild duck and marsh fowl.
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Now, at the edge of the timber, there was wintergreen growing and some partridgeberries and the forest floor began to be alive with growing things.
Hemingway on Hunting
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The Stoney Brook Preserve is an intensely managed, multi-habitat property with lodgings that offers deer, pheasant, dove, chukar, Hungarian partridge, duck, bass and trout fishing.
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He thinks, having read the form, that we may need to send four forms in - one for antenatal and postnatal care, one for the gynae care 8 months postnatally, one for the colo-rectal guy, and one for the dermatologist who specialises in vulvas I wish I knew her real job title, I bet it's hilarious! and possibly one for the partridge in the pear tree, and all.
Woke up, got out of bed, dragged a comb across my head
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On the one hand, you have the uplands: home to the ruffed grouse and the woodcock, the ringneck pheasant, the bobwhite quail, and just possibly sharptail grouse and Hungarian partridge, too.
