The swamps of Darien and the lands which are covered with water after the inundations, are full of pheasants, peacocks of sober colours, and many other birds different from ours.
In addition to the gold and the incense, they presented peacocks such as are not found elsewhere, for they differ largely from ours in the variety of their colours.
The women keep ducks and geese about the houses, just as ours do; peacocksfly about in the woods, but their colours are not so rich or so varied as ours and the male bird differs little from the female.
If, however, they are cooked as we do peacocks and pheasants, which are first larded and then roasted, the serpent's flesh loses its good flavour.
In the woods are manypeacocks and falcons, with popinjays or parrots, some of which are entirely white, while others are of seven different colours.
It cannot be supposed, for instance, that male birds of paradise orpeacocks should take such pains in erecting, spreading, and vibrating their beautiful plumes before the females for no purpose.
These indentations are common to the Indian and Javan peacocks (Pavo cristatus and P.
Peacocks and Birds of Paradise rattle their quills together.
Darwin Fox informs me that at some little distance from Chester two peacocks became so excited whilst fighting, that they flew over the whole city, still engaged, until they alighted on the top of St. John's tower.
Mr. Beebe says also that "peacocks are so common that we sometimes fail to appreciate their really wonderful colours.
She could never steal suddenly through the boxwood hedge which hid the paling fence at that side of the hired yard, and frighten the peacocks so that they would spread their tails proudly.
Where peacocks nod and flaunt up and down the terrace, Furling and unfurling their scores of sightless eyes, To and fro among the leaves and buds and flowers and berries Maiden Milly strolls and pauses, smiles and sighs.
But he made merry over the ivory, apes, and peacocks of existence.
Old Betty's joints are on the rack; Loud quack the ducks, the peacocks cry, The distant hills are seeming nigh.
The peacocks having brought in their verdict, departed, and the dead bird was left alone.
It was called the peacock throne because it was guarded by two peacocks with expanded tails ornamented with jewels that reproduced the natural colors of the bird.
We returned from this trip late in the evening when the peacocks were going to roost, and nearly every tree contained one or more of these gaudy-plumaged fowls.
There are two white peacockson the Adirondacks place.
On the road and around the palace we were amused by the antics of numerous monkeys and the beauty of flocks of peacocks running wild all over, the screaming of parrots, etc.
Monkeys were in the woods, and flocks of parrots flying about, and often the beautiful peacocks were perched on the fences or wandering about the fields.
Well, all I know is those peacocks were gone for an hour that afternoon and the red roses on the yellow ground were there instead.
She felt that she would die before she confessed to the ghastly absurdity of that nightcap, or to having been disturbed by the flight of peacocks off a blue field of chintz after she had scoffed at the possibility of such a thing.
Only when I went in there that afternoon it was not peacocks on a blue ground; it was great red roses on a yellow ground.
I guess I would just as soon have red roses on a yellow ground as peacocks on a blue; but there's no use talking, you couldn't have seen straight.
But just before Mrs. Simmons was ready to get into bed she looked again at the hangings and the easy chair, and there were the red roses on the yellow ground instead of the peacocks on the blue.
And there dwell in this comely garden white peacocks and peacocks that have blue breasts.
Its doors were of powdered lacquer, and bulls and peacocks were wrought on them in raised and polished gold.
He likes to have me come and tell him about the ducks and the peacocks and all the creatures, and sometimes I take him the dogs to look at.
Wild peacocks were seen feeding near the rails, but not in populous districts.
This unexpected sound startled the inquiring stranger half out of his wits; for a moment the stout legs staggered and the solemn countenance lost its composure, as he whispered, with an astonished air: "Is that the way peacocks scream?
Here are the peacocks coming to be fed," interrupted Bab, as the handsome birds appeared with their splendid plumage glittering in the sun.
It teemed with ghostly beings of diverse tribes that danced in joy and with peacocks also that danced with plumes outspread.
He acquires a car drawn bypeacocks and swans and cranes.
And there were talking parrots and she-parrots and Bhringarajas and Kokilas and Catapatras with Koyashtikas and Kukkubhas, and peacocks and cocks and Datyuhas and Jivajivakas and Chakoras and monkeys and swans and Sarasas and Chakravakas.
A cheetah likes the warmth of a blaze and comes near the cultivator's watch fire in the field, calls him by name and devours him; it frequents where peacocks abound; it does not eat the victim that falls with the right side uppermost.
Peacocks dance in the morning to pay obeisance to the Sun God, and they are not kept as pets in houses as the girls will not find suitors.
To find one of these peacocks (the white one preferably) self-consciously posing on a meadow of rhythmical daffodils is to discover the true spirit of park artistry symbolized with absolute perfection.
Now their owner had a daughter Who, when people came to call, Used to say, "You'd reelly oughter See them peacocks on the mall.
In the air was the scent of late flowers and the murmurs of bees; the bright eyes of blackbirds and robins peeped out from the ornamental yews, and the peacocks trailed their plumes over the sparkling emerald lawns.
They were all very much at ease, laughing and talking as they drank their tea and threw cake to the peacocksperched on the high terrace walk above their heads.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "peacocks" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
