He drank Bass' pale ale to an extent which considerably alarmed his entertainer, and enjoyed himself amazingly, showing an appreciation of roast pheasant and bread-sauce which was beyond his years.
My lady was very charming at the dinner-table; she professed the most bewitching incapacity for carving the pheasant set before her, and called Robert to her assistance.
The Guinea Fowl, to a certain degree, unites the characteristics of the pheasant and the turkey; having the delicate shape of the one, and the bare head of the other.
This variety is highly valued by many, not on account of its intrinsic merits, which are considerable, but because it is believed to be a cross between the pheasant and the common fowl.
The landowners who planted them, and the pheasant coverts, have improved the scenery and their own shooting at the same time.
Brown mohair body, with a long red-brown spotted grouse hackle; the wings a mixture of mallard, brown turkey, and a little hen pheasant tail.
A dark green fly ribbed with gold, silver pheasant tail mixed with mallard for wings, a small topping in tail, and orange head.
He thought that the head was much too small for the body, and its naked and warty cheeks led him to observe that the pheasant had the appearance of having put on two plasters of tortoise-skin, a remark which was certainly well founded.
The Fire-Bird is the Luan, and the Love-Pheasant the Fêng Huang; both are fully described in the table of mythical animals in the Introduction.
The true English Pheasant (Phasianus colchicus) is believed to have been introduced into England from Asia Minor probably by the Romans.
The last named species, however, has also been introduced into England where it freely interbreeds with the earlier established English Pheasant and individuals without at least a trace of white on the neck are now comparatively rare.
Unlike the Ring-necked Pheasant (Phasianus torquatus) it has no white collar.
While roaming the woods one day, a pheasant had hurtled over his head.
The pheasant squatted to his limb undisturbed, and the lad lay gripping the bowlder with both hands.
I have met with a story of a pheasant which proves that this bird is very bold and courageous.
A young lady walking alone a few miles from Stirling (in Scotland), observed a beautiful cock pheasant perched on a stone by the road side.
The pheasant is one of the most beautiful of all fowls, and can only be rivalled by the peacock.
In ancient times the pheasant was held in reverence by the heathen, and it was only on the most solemn occasions that they were used as food, and then only by the emperors of Rome.
That is why the Indians have the Pheasant dance, as a part of the Green-corn dance.
A cock-pheasant and a hen-partridge would have been the same to him.
The Guinea-fowl may be considered as somewhat intermediate between the pheasant and turkey.
After the pheasant season, young birds that have been hatched the same year are excellent substitutes for that fine game, and fetch a fair price.
How different is the pursuit of the pheasant with the aid of spaniels in the thick covers of the weald, or tracking him with a single setter among some of the wilder portions of the forest range!
Hark to that whipping sound so different from the rush of the rising pheasant or the drumming flight of the partridge!
From Balcombe to Worth is one vast pheasant run, with here and there a keeper's cottage or a farm: originally, of course, a series of plantations growing furnace wood for the ironmasters.
But I've had some tender pheasant prepared; so please come, and have your evening meal; for if you delay any longer, it will get quite stale.
I've tasted the young-pheasant soup you sent me a little time back and find it full of relish.
The hen-pheasant was a solitary bird, having strayed away from the pheasant copses near the Itchen and found a nesting-place a mile away, on the other side of the valley, among the tall grasses and sedges on its border.
The note of this once wild Indian pheasant is certainly the most remarkable of any bird's, and if they could be naturalized without being domesticated it would soon become the most famous sound in our woods.
Thus, one man will dine with zest on a pheasant, partridge, or quail, but would be choked by a lark; while another man will eat pheasant and lark with equal pleasure.
Nor eke a pheasant hen, But it was the bodye of a faire ladye, Came swimming down the stream.
Or eke a pheasant hen, Or was it the bodye of a faire ladye Come swimming down the stream?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pheasant" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: broiler; chicken; duck; fowl; goose; grouse; magpie; pigeon; quail; roaster; squab; turkey
