Poor country folk eating hard, gamey birds

Usage examples of pheasants.

Amherst pheasants to five shillings that she refuses to have me as a partner at the croquet tournament.

Two hundred and fifty-three pheasants, eleven hares, fifty-two rabbits, three woodcock, sundry.

The honest sailor did not hide his regret at being reduced for dinner to the singing pheasants, but fortune once more showed itself obliging to him.

Never was shooting, for instance, carried to such perfection, perfect guns made with scientific accuracy, plans of campaign among the pheasants set out with diagrams as if there was going to be a battle of Blenheim in the woods.

Sportsmen would be very glad if pheasants would kindly learn by experience, and lay eggs of a hue invisible to the poaching rook or crow.

The pheasants sometimes came down to the kitchen door, so greedy were they.

With the dogs and ponies, the pheasants and rabbits, the weasels and the stoats, and the ferrets in their hutches, the place seemed really to belong more to the animals than to the tenant.

Like the deer, pheasants, if they can, will get away from the main wood.

She could skin rabbits, strangle chickens, shoot pheasants, aid the birth of lambs and perform many tasks which would show me up as hopelessly incompetent, not to say, squeamish.

And I will do two other good things--I will carry a brace of pheasants with me, and protect Miss Robarts from the evil spirits of the Framley roads.

Now we may say she was fairly caught, and Lord Lufton, taking a pair of pheasants from the gamekeeper, and swinging them over his shoulder, walked off with his prey.