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The second course arrived, roasted kid, smoked peacock, and sliced ox meat.
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This moral is perhaps less implicit in the lines on the peacock:-
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Pieces of old mahogany swelled forth; a peacock-patterned chintz draped the bedstead.
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The extreme end of the rear extension held the long peacock feathers.
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The purpose of the trip is to bring back a Congo peacock.
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The peafowl and sarus cranes are indulging in the pleasures of courtship.
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The peafowl in the tree were about to eat the last of them.
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This plain was covered with wild indigo, and abounded with peafowl.
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Indian peafowl also roam, as do spoonbills, pelicans and painted storks.
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You must mean the nine sisters, the enchanted princesses, who fly about as peafowl.
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The following morning we got a peahen at the same place.
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When the peahen saw what had happened to the duck, she left the island.
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She followed attentive as a peahen, he spreading a gorgeous tail of accumulated information.
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In the peahen's case, picking the poorest male will leave her hardly affected at all.
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Even in the street he is the peacock, coloured much more splendidly than the peahen.
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A peacock grants a peahen one tiny favor: a batch of sperm and nothing else.
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The gazelle was exceedingly distressed, but it persuaded the peahen to change her mind about leaving.
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Ashlin, a peahen to match, wore simple leathers in dull brown, except for a green leather gorget.
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Presently the sound of wheels is heard, and the peahen voice of Tibby announces the arrival of Penelope.
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Know, peahen, that I have lived all my life in safety on this island without seeing anything unpleasant.
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The peahen died suddenly and mysteriously.
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When the peahen heard what the duck had to say...
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She gleamed like the golden phoenixes of Ziziba; I, in my maroon houppelande, was a dull little peahen in comparison.
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A dog's bark, a peahen's cry, above all a bird's song, is a great interruption to hypnotism-silentor by voices.
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You would expect, therefore, that the choice would be made most carefully by the tern and least carefully by the peahen.
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Before the peahen had finished speaking, the gazelle had come up to them and was sheltering in the shade of a tree.