1 The pheasant chicks were running lightly abroad, light as insects, from the coops where the fellow hens clucked anxiously.
2 He has been ill ever since he did not eat any of the pheasant today.
3 I preserve, too, and in the pheasant months I usually have a house-party, so that it would not do to be short-handed.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In VI. The Adventure of The Musgrave Ritual 4 The supper consisted of a roast pheasant garnished with Corsican blackbirds; a boar's ham with jelly, a quarter of a kid with tartar sauce, a glorious turbot, and a gigantic lobster.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 31. Italy: Sinbad the Sailor. 5 A great copper-breasted pheasant came beating through the boughs overhead.
6 But there was no game; no pheasants.
7 'I mean as 'appen Ah can find anuther pleece as'll du for rearin' th' pheasants.
8 There was no shooting as yet: he had to rear the pheasants.
9 Yet he could live alone, in the wan satisfaction of being alone, and raise pheasants to be shot ultimately by fat men after breakfast.
10 His young pheasants were all right under the shelter.
11 All were attracted at first by the plants or the pheasants, and all dispersed about in happy independence.
12 I never saw Mansfield Wood so full of pheasants in my life as this year.
13 They killed a dozen pheasants in the park, as many trout in the stream, dined in a summer-house overlooking the ocean, and took tea in the library.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 85. The Journey. 14 In England he had galloped in a red coat over hedges and killed two hundred pheasants for a bet.