birch partridge

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Let’s start with some etymology: What are the origins of the typographical word “bracket”?

Bob Dylan even took the Birchers to task in his folk tune “Talking John Birch Paranoid Blues.”
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Wood pigeon, pheasant, partridge, grouse, peacocks, hares, wild rabbits, and waterfowl are all dietary staples.
Edible Taxidermy: It’s a Good Thing|Lizzie Crocker|August 5, 2014|DAILY BEAST
But you do not have a 50-foot birch lying across your driveway.
The Federal Government Has Violated My Right to Chainsaw|P. J. O’Rourke|April 27, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Wetlands protected under the “Clean Water Act of 1972” are being polluted with birch beer precursor chemicals.
The Federal Government Has Violated My Right to Chainsaw|P. J. O’Rourke|April 27, 2014|DAILY BEAST

(At the same time, CPAC also banned the John Birch Society from being a sponsor as well).
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He would hunt partridge industriously and conspicuously until men's minds were turned quite away from the subject of bear.
Scattergood Baines|Clarence Budington Kelland
Another point also should be noted: If Scattergood were hunting bear he gave it out that his game was partridge.
Scattergood Baines|Clarence Budington Kelland
Probably he would bring partridge, too, for he never neglected by-products.
Scattergood Baines|Clarence Budington Kelland
It is well known in Sweden that when a pine forest is felled, a growth, not of pine but of birch, immediately springs up.
Elements of Agricultural Chemistry|Thomas Anderson
By and by, a straggling birch bluff rose blackly across their way, but nobody swung wide.
Winston of the Prairie|Harold Bindloss