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Definition of Peacocks
1. peacock [v] - See also: peacock
Lexicographical Neighbors of Peacocks
Literary usage of Peacocks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The world's wit and humor: an encyclopedia of the classic wit and humor of by Lionel Strachey (1906)
"The peacocks and the Crow A VAIN crow adorned herself with the feathers of the
richly tinted peacocks which they had shed, and when she thought herself ..."
2. The Illustrated Magazine of Art (1853)
"When Alexander лгал in India, he discovered vast numbers of peacocks flying wild
on the ... Going to look at tha peacocks was not only an expensive but nn ..."
3. The Masterpieces and the History of Literature: Analysis, Criticism by Julian Hawthorne, John Porter Lamberton, John Russell Young, Oliver Herbrand Gordon Leigh (1902)
"THE peacocks AND THE CROW. A VAIN Crow adorned herself with the feathers of the
richly-tinted peacocks, which they had shed, and when she thought herself ..."
4. Unique Traditions Chiefly of the West and South of Scotland by John Gordon Barbour (1886)
"THE APES AND peacocks OF TARSHISH. CHAP. I. IT is recorded in the Chronicles of
the Kings of Judah, that Solomon was wont to bring apes and peacocks from ..."
5. Mediaeval Byways by Louis Francis Salzman (1913)
"T VI IVORY AND APES AND peacocks HERE is a sentence in the biblical account of
the wonders of Solomon's reign that has always had a fascination for me. ..."
6. The Fables of Æsop: With a Life of the Author; Illustrated with One Hundred by Aesop (1865)
"THE JACKDAW AND peacocks. A CERTAIN Jackdaw was so proud and ambitious, that,
not contented to live within his own sphere, he picked up the feathers which ..."
7. The Remains of Ancient Rome by John Henry Middleton (1892)
"The bronze peacocks appear to have been placed ... where the peacocks and the
fir cone now stand, is called from the latter the Giardino della Pigna. ..."
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