partridge
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Hunters pay big money to enter the grounds, but they are given express instructions to focus on deer and partridge, and leave the felines well alone.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 30, 2026
"Unfortunately we do not have that in the rest of the UK. We need to see wider licensing particularly for grouse moors in England and pheasant and partridge shooting in the lowlands of the UK."
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2024
One X user wrote they were “glad that olivia rodrigo and louis partridge are finally dating people their age and not weirdos in their late twenties who think it’s okay to date teens.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 15, 2023
On the first day of Christmas, it will set shoppers back $280.18 to buy a partridge in a pear tree for their true love — a 25.8% increase from last year.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 23, 2022
He raced in circles around the tractor, a habit he had picked up years ago when my father would plow or mow and sometimes flush quail or partridge hidden in the field.
From "Z for Zachariah" by Robert C. O’Brien
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
It was in these woods, just outside Glacier National Park, that the teenage boys learned to hunt, fish, dress a deer and pick birdshot from Hungarian partridges.
From New York Times ● Mar. 24, 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
She spotted him coming out of barbershops with windows the color of coal dust, from tiny booths that sold partridges, from battered, open- fronted stores packed with old tires piled from floor to ceiling.
From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini
