Synonyms

1. bobwhite
2. bobwhite quail

Sentence Examples

1. I am glad that the partridge gets fed, at any rate.
2. I pass my life with my wife, children, and friends my pursuits are hunting and fishing, but I keep neither hawks nor greyhounds, nothing but a tame partridge or a bold ferret or two I have six dozen or so of books, some in our mother tongue, some Latin, some of them history, others devotional those of chivalry have not as yet crossed the threshold of my door I am more given to turning over the profane than the devotional, so long as they are books of honest entertainment that charm by their style and attract and interest by the invention they display, though of these there are very few in Spain.
3. Our woods teem with them both, and around every swamp may be seen the partridge or rabbit walk, beset with twiggy fences and horse-hair snares, which some cow-boy tends.
4. As I sit at my window this summer afternoon, hawks are circling about my clearing the tantivy of wild pigeons, flying by twos and threes athwart my view, or perching restless on the white-pine boughs behind my house, gives a voice to the air a fishhawk dimples the glassy surface of the pond and brings up a fish a mink steals out of the marsh before my door and seizes a frog by the shore the sedge is bending under the weight of the reed-birds flitting hither and thither and for the last half hour I have heard the rattle of railroad cars, now dying away and then reviving like the beat of a partridge, conveying travellers from Boston to the country.
5. Whichever side you walk in the woods the partridge bursts away on whirring wings, jarring the snow from the dry leaves and twigs on high, which comes sifting down in the sun-beams like golden dust for this brave bird is not to be scared by winter.
6. The partridge and the rabbit are still sure to thrive, like true natives of the soil, whatever revolutions occur.
7. If you would know the flavor of huckleberries, ask the cow-boy or the partridge.
8. It is hardly as if you had seen a wild creature when a rabbit or a partridge bursts away, only a natural one, as much to be expected as rustling leaves.
9. 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.
10. Sometimes I heard the foxes as they ranged over the snow crust, in moonlight nights, in search of a partridge or other game, barking raggedly and demoniacally like forest dogs, as if laboring with some anxiety, or seeking expression, struggling for light and to be dogs outright and run freely in the streets for if we take the ages into our account, may there not be a civilization going on among brutes as well as men?