Meanings of white peacock in inglês

As directed, I descended and stood spread out like a white peacock on the back porch.

Now droops the milk- white peacock like a ghost.

His next purchase was a white peacock, which, very soon after its arrival, disappeared under the sofa.

A white peacock asleep on a window-sill startled Mike, and he thought of the ghost of his dead mistress.

Here and there a white peacock would be snared, or a boar whose tusks promised a battle royal with some leopard or tiger.

Learn, my two dear friends, that the sacred white peacock brought to these misty shores for my undying glory, has been lost to me!

A white peacock, screaming in the garden under Stephen's balcony, waked him early, and dreamily his thoughts strayed towards the events planned for the day.

There are iridescent blue dragonflies and white peacocks and so many intricately brocade gowns.

And there dwell in this comely garden white peacocks and peacocks that have blue breasts.

Those ferryboats, by the way, are extremely graceful; they look like white peacocks dragging enormous white-feather tails.

"Or, perhaps, Miss Marley's a freak like the white peacock at the gardens?"

"Ah, the lad dirtied those nice white peacock feathers," Myrrima whined in mock sympathy.

He promises her all his finest jewels, his white peacocks, and even half his kingdom, but she nevertheless still refuses to dance for him.

I even knew the name of one, a certain mandarin, and member of the Sublime Order of the White Peacock, who was his immediate superior.

Some white peacocks were basking on the southern wall, and one of them, as their visitors entered, moved and displayed its plumage with scornful pride.