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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 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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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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I presently got a shot at a peafowl, and killed her with my rifle.
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A few belated peafowl may still be found with eggs, but these are exceptions.
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The peafowl were no sooner gone than the Prince rubbed his eyes and looked about.
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This place literally swarmed with peafowl, partridges, and deer.
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One very important thing is at stake in the peafowl case: a bunch of genes.
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The Chinese rear ducks; the tame fowl abounds; but the turkey, goose, and peafowl are seldom met with.
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The purple peafowl, wholly overmastered
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We had peafowl fly brushes.
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I'll tell you what you ought to do: give up thought of this peafowl princess and marry my daughter.
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They had a peafowl.
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On the stroke of midnight there was a whirr of wings and nine beautiful peafowl came flying down from the sky.