Use "peacocks" in a sentence
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peacocks
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
