Group of birds formed by the indian peafowl, the green peafowl and the congo peafowl.
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Examples for "peacock"
Examples for "peacock"
1The second course arrived, roasted kid, smoked peacock, and sliced ox meat.
2This moral is perhaps less implicit in the lines on the peacock:-
3Pieces of old mahogany swelled forth; a peacock-patterned chintz draped the bedstead.
4The extreme end of the rear extension held the long peacock feathers.
5The purpose of the trip is to bring back a Congo peacock.
1The peafowl and sarus cranes are indulging in the pleasures of courtship.
2The peafowl in the tree were about to eat the last of them.
3This plain was covered with wild indigo, and abounded with peafowl.
4Indian peafowl also roam, as do spoonbills, pelicans and painted storks.
5You must mean the nine sisters, the enchanted princesses, who fly about as peafowl.
1The following morning we got a peahen at the same place.
2When the peahen saw what had happened to the duck, she left the island.
3She followed attentive as a peahen, he spreading a gorgeous tail of accumulated information.
4In the peahen's case, picking the poorest male will leave her hardly affected at all.
5Even in the street he is the peacock, coloured much more splendidly than the peahen.
6A peacock grants a peahen one tiny favor: a batch of sperm and nothing else.
7The gazelle was exceedingly distressed, but it persuaded the peahen to change her mind about leaving.
8Ashlin, a peahen to match, wore simple leathers in dull brown, except for a green leather gorget.
9Presently the sound of wheels is heard, and the peahen voice of Tibby announces the arrival of Penelope.
10Know, peahen, that I have lived all my life in safety on this island without seeing anything unpleasant.
11The peahen died suddenly and mysteriously.
12When the peahen heard what the duck had to say...
13She gleamed like the golden phoenixes of Ziziba; I, in my maroon houppelande, was a dull little peahen in comparison.
14A dog's bark, a peahen's cry, above all a bird's song, is a great interruption to hypnotism-silentor by voices.
15You would expect, therefore, that the choice would be made most carefully by the tern and least carefully by the peahen.
16Before the peahen had finished speaking, the gazelle had come up to them and was sheltering in the shade of a tree.