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    peacock


    peacocks


    1. In dreaming of a peacock sky on some far distant world, Smith allowed a feather to fall upon the barren rocks of our world


    2. is a peacock who can only extend his tail feathers in black and white, much to the detriment of the white


    3. The crowd cheered and whistled and clapped for each model as she displayed herself like a peacock showing its glorious feathers with pride


    4. She also wanted us to have peacock


    5. Leon Edward strutted like a peacock into the lobby of Hotel Paradise with two women at his side, certain that every head turned for a glimpse of such a great sight: Ed Lyons had arrived


    6. days, Tim Wilson, who lived in a tiny apartment above the Golden Peacock Chinese restaurant opposite EB’s main gate, were apparently poaching on the Latin Kings’ marijuana territory


    7. The original peacocks were loud, but eventually, to keep peace in the neighborhood, another species of peacock was found with a quieter call


    8. That strutting peacock deigned to inform us in that shrill and arrogant-sounding voice of his when he’d begun his report: “I set out upon the road that your Fourth Army had taken, sire


    9. That strutting peacock deigned to inform us in that shrill and arrogant-sounding voice of his


    10. Beatrice did modulate the steps and took more time than needed in her descent, in emulation to exhibit herself like a spongy peacock and capturing the biggest quantity of looks from the young gentlemen

    11. "That Peacock is cleverer than she thinks, but it won't save her," Krome sniggered


    12. For you see, Clarice was formerly homely herself, and now looked as though she were a glorious swan or multifaceted peacock


    13. Jehungir Agha, lord of Khawarizm and keeper of the coastal border, scanned once more the ornate parchment scroll with its peacock seal, and laughed shortly and sardonically


    14. One was of a peacock with its plumage displayed the other was of a knight slaying a dragon


    15. It was my first visit to a real star restaurant and I felt as proud as a peacock


    16. Rani had never seen a garden so beautiful, she noticed a peacock wondering round a rose bush, there were a few nestled in the trees


    17. The candor had left his voice and he was the peacock showing his feathers, finally


    18. Sandra walked away proud as a peacock


    19. When she went into the bedroom she found Petronila Iguarán there with the bothersome crinolines and the beaded jacket that she put on for formal visits, and she found Tran-quilina Maria Miniata Alacoque Buendía, her grand-mother, fanning herself with a peacock feather in her in-valid’s rocking chair, and her great-grandfather Aure-liano Arcadio Buendía, with his imitation dolman of the viceregal guard, and Aureliano Iguarán, her father, who had invented a prayer to make the worms shrivel up and drop off cows, and her timid mother, and her cousin with the pig’s tail, and José Arcadio Buendía, and her dead sons, all sitting in chairs lined up against the wall as if it were a wake and not a visit


    20. He was walking like a proud peacock

    21. ’’ Replied Ken, as proud as a peacock


    22. ‘’Thank you, General!’’ Said Ingrid, proud as a peacock, before saluting MacArthur and returning besides Dale and Villamor


    23. The grooved structure of peacock feathers splits light in the same way as a diffraction


    24. Could the beautiful peacock be the answer he's seeking?


    25. And even vanity has a very long tradition, which shouldn’t be surprising when one considers the plumage display of a peacock


    26. were made with chicken hackle and peacock feathers tied onto a


    27. Peacock Concubine blood has turned cold


    28. that insulted my benevolent teacher? Long time ago, the Peacock Concubine Mei


    29. “If he is not telling any lies, then were it not mean that Mentor Master really hid the Peacock Concubine


    30. Don’t tell me inside the coffin, really is that Peacock Concubine?”

    31. Concubine”? But that Peacock Concubine had found fame ten years ago and till


    32. And she demonstrated the Peacock Picking Feather stance with her hand


    33. Peacock Concubine has found fame long ago


    34. “The Peacock Concubine is renowned


    35. look like twenty years of old will be the Peacock Concubine


    36. City, I heard that the Peacock Concubine has returned to the Pugilist realm


    37. Peacock Concubine will…” He sighed and shut up


    38. remember the peacock brew that I have specifically made for you brothers?”


    39. “Is this the peacock brew?” He was disappointed for it looked so ordinary


    40. ” Samuel picked up a peacock feather

    41. Hades, who now slouched and picked at his beard, would, in a few months’ time, with the first chill of autumn, sit erect and commanding and proud like a peacock before his mate


    42. His lashes, jealous of the attention the eyes are getting, stretch out like a proud peacock


    43. He shimmed his shoulders like a peacock fanning its feathers


    44. ‘They have killed a peacock once again


    45. peacock was held at a corner of the room, its blood


    46. The moment some of the peacock blood was poured into a


    47. I have heard that peacock blood has many other side-effects


    48. Mostly called “flies,” or “tying flies,” these lifelike creatures were made with chicken hackle and peacock feathers tied onto a generic hook of a certain sized depending on the fish or the bug that you wanted to use on your expedition


    49. A peacock wanting to be loved, wanting to seduce


    50. The “I” sense in us is nothing but an imaginary peacock that dances colorfully in the plane of our imagination and erroneously we take this peacock of “I” as our true being




































    1. The girls strutted like peacocks with their chests out, but were no bigger than Ava, nothing like the girls up here


    2. The carpet was a hand carved Chinese with peacocks sewn


    3. For the king's ships went to Tarshish with the servants of Huram: every three years once came the ships of Tarshish bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks


    4. As you know from my childhood, my mother loved animals, and my father’s estate provided ample room for dogs and peacocks


    5. The original peacocks were loud, but eventually, to keep peace in the neighborhood, another species of peacock was found with a quieter call


    6. ” As far as raising peacocks, it was mainly my mother’s interest, not his


    7. There was nothing wrong with peacocks wandering around the yard, but he took little interest, other than visual, in the birds


    8. Yes, the Peacocks hotel looked


    9. There in front of the Peacocks


    10. But the dogs looked proud as peacocks of their new names, and both Pedro and Birdie made so much fuss over the pups that Chica began to feel a little put out

    11. The gringos, who later on brought their languid wives in muslin dresses and large veiled hats, built a separate town across the railroad tracks with streets lined with palm trees, houses with screened win-dows, small white tables on the terraces, and fans mounted on the ceilings, and extensive blue lawns with peacocks and quails


    12. peacocks on the lawn at Government House and the downcast, deposed,


    13. The mating dance has begun but the peacocks are novices at the steps


    14. him that her father also kept several peacocks around their farm-


    15. She remembered how the peacocks flocked around her father at


    16. peacocks in need of a mirror


    17. Another thing is that females caused male Peacocks to


    18. Lately, however, the park, left to its own devices had fell into neglect; the peacocks had all gone, and the place had become a bit of a wasteland; a haven for the unemployed and unemployable, the tramps, winos and drug addicts


    19. When a peacock cries in the jungle it cries only for other peacocks not for lions, wolves, crows or parrots


    20. "This will be a regularly merry Christmas to me, with presents in the morning, you and letters in the afternoon, and a party at night," said Amy, as they alighted among the ruins of the old fort, and a flock of splendid peacocks came trooping about them, tamely waiting to be fed

    21. Laurie did not read all this while he watched her feed the peacocks, but he saw enough to satisfy and interest him, and carried away a pretty little picture of a bright-faced girl standing in the sunshine, which brought out the soft hue of her dress, the fresh color of her cheeks, the golden gloss of her hair, and made her a prominent figure in the pleasant scene


    22. This phantom wore many faces, but it always had golden hair, was enveloped in a diaphanous cloud, and floated airily before his mind's eye in a pleasing chaos of roses, peacocks, white ponies, and blue ribbons


    23. “It’s made with peacocks and hares


    24. Peacocks in crosswalks


    25. Peacocks in the lace curtains


    26. She bought only one hat from Madame Reboux, but on the other hand she filled a trunk with sprigs of artificial cherries, stalks of all the felt flowers she could find, branches of ostrich plumes, crests of peacocks, tailfeathers of Asiatic roosters, entire pheasants, hummingbirds, and a countless variety of exotic birds preserved in midflight, midcall, midagony: everything that had been used in the past twenty years to change the appearance of hats


    27. , The Plungers and the Peacocks: An Update of the Classic History of the Stock Market, William Morrow, New York, 1989


    28. Her native clime was a land of milk and honey and had its share of apes and ivory and peacocks


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    Synonyms for "peacock"

    peacock inachis io peacock butterfly

    "peacock" definitions

    European butterfly having reddish-brown wings each marked with a purple eyespot


    male peafowl; having a crested head and very large fanlike tail marked with iridescent eyes or spots