What is "grouse"

Usage examples of "grouse".

The selection of wildfowl was especially cosmopolitan, including bittern, shoveler, pewit, godwit, quail, dotterl, heronsew, crane, snipe, plover, redshank, pheasant, grouse, and curlew.

There were ruffled grouse, angrily complaining about things, godwits making profane jokes, sandpipers playing little fifes on the beach, black rails lying in parallel rows on the ground, oven birds doing the morning baking, mourning doves sobbing uncontrollably, goshawks staring with amazement, a crane hauling up loads of stones, and several big old red barn owls filled with hay.

Cyrus Harding ate a little of the grouse, and the rest was divided among his companions, who found it but a meager breakfast, for they were suffering extremely from hunger.

All the dishes were set out at once on the bare deal table--a bowl of barley kail, a boiled fowl, the two brandered grouse, and a platter of oatcakes.

With it she had shot snipe in the Okavango Delta, sand grouse in the Karoo, duck and geese on the great Zambezi, grouse on the highland moors, and pheasant, woodcock and partridge on some of the great English estates to which she and the ambassador had been invited.

I do not know whether a mungoose in a wild state will eat carrion, but he would not touch anything tainted, and, though very fond of freshly-cooked game, would turn up his nose at high partridge or grouse.

Larks and pipits were everywhere on the steppes, willow grouse, ptarmigan, and partridges, sand grouse and great bustards, and beautiful demoiselle cranes, bluish-gray with black heads and white tufts of feathers behind the eyes.

He came out of the Ballston Metro, walked through the Ramada Renaissance lobby, across two streets, and into the Randolph Towers building by way of the deli, where he topped off his cigarette supply, grousing at the Lebanese proprietor over his prices.

Lord, you cannot still be grousing over what happened with Reely this morning.

Yuralon said for the ninth time, in the road outside the Ruffed Grouse.

By the cold light of the full moon we wended homeward, rejoicing in the possession of twenty-six couple and a half of cock, twelve brace of quail--we found another bevy on our way home and bagged three birds almost by moonlight--five ruffed grouse, and a rabbit.

The eagles and the hawks built their nests in its towering trees, while the cranes fished and the ruffed grouse drummed.

Creeping on toward the sound, slowly and with infinite precaution, we discovered that we were not the only ones going to the dance: the whirring of wings frequently rustled overhead as ruffed grouse skimmed past us in rapid flight.

From him Benjie learned how to take a nesting grouse, how to snare a dozen things, from hares to roebuck, how to sniggle salmon in the clear pools, and how to poach a hind when the deer came down in hard weather to the meadows.

The three setters, Voyou, Gamin, and Mioche, were in fine feather,--David had killed a woodcock and a brace of grouse oven them that morning,--and they were thrashing about the spinney an short range when I came up, gun under arm and pipe lighted.