About midnight the nine Peahens came, and eight settled down upon the tree while the ninth flew down to the bed and transformed herself into a maiden.
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But the Peahens never returned to the apple-tree, and the imperial Prince mourned and bewailed himself without ceasing.
The servant answered that nine Peahens had flown down to the lake; eight had gone into the water, but the ninth had come to him, the Prince, upon his horse, had caressed and tried to awaken him.
When the Peahens had bathed they all flew away, and he immediately awoke and asked the servant, "What is the matter?
He was hardly asleep when the nine Peahens came flying to the spot.
He arose early in the morning and went out to watch for the Peahens on the border of the lake.
He had barely fallen asleep when the nine Peahens arrived; eight alighted in the lake, but the ninth flew to the Prince upon his steed, and began to embrace and try to waken him.
Outside, the garden was gathering itself together in the dusk, and the peahens were stepping daintily about the lawns, picking here and there between the blades of grass.
In the morning the peahens came rustling down out of the elm, and went searching for fat carnation buds and anemone seeds among the flower-beds in the garden.
At midnight the eight peahenslifted their heads, and said, "Sister, why did you fail last night?
The other peahens came no nearer, but stood weeping silently.
He pushed open the door, and suddenly there was a sharp rustling of feathers, and nine white peahens rose up from the ground and flew out of the window into the garden.
But there the air was close, and an unpleasant smell of moisture came from the floor and walls: so, the night being warm, he returned to the garden, and folding himself in his cloak lay down under the tree where the nine peahens were at roost.
At night, as before, the peahens all cried in chorus as they went up into the elm; and the Prince came and wrapped himself in his cloak, and lay down at the foot of it to watch.
Just before it grew dark, the nine white peahens gathered together at the foot of a great elm, and lifting up their throats they wailed in chorus.
And at that all the other peahenslifted up their heads and wailed with her: but the Prince never turned, nor lifted a finger, nor uttered a sound.
At that moment nine peahens flew to the tree and settled on its branches, where eight remained to pluck the fruit.
Shortly afterward the peahens came; eight of them went as usual to bathe, and the ninth alighted on the prince's horse and tried to awaken him.
But the peahens never came again, to the great sorrow of the prince, and for all that he mourned and wept.
Then after thepeahens had bathed, all disappeared.
The queen answered: "O, my son, I know those peahens well, for they come every day at noon to this lake and bathe.
After a time the peahens came up from the water, and the princess said to the servant, "Tell your master when he awakens twice more will I come but never again.
He had not been there long when he saw a light, and heard the sevenpeahens coming.
He knocked at the door and when the queen came to see who was there he once more asked whether she could tell him anything of the seven golden peahens who were the daughters of a king.
Presently the peahens came flying, and as before the youngest sister came over to the prince and began to call and caress him, but he still slept on in spite of her.
Then a light appeared in the sky, and seven golden peahens flew into the garden.
On and on they went until they came to the pleasure palace the king had built for his daughters, and there the golden peacock was changed back into a prince, and the peahens became seven princesses.
The prince was obliged to tell his story, but when he said it was seven golden peahens that stole the apples, and that they were the daughters of a great king his father would scarcely believe him.
After a time the golden peahens flew into the garden, and after the youngest sister had changed into a princess, she and the prince talked together all night.
Then she changed him into a golden peacock, and the six peahens came up from the water and they all flew away together.
Six of the peahens settled on the branches of the apple tree and began to shake down the apples, but the seventh changed into the most beautiful princess the prince had ever seen in all his life.
Presently there was a light in the sky and the seven goldenpeahens came flying and alighted upon the borders of the lake.
He stopped his ears with cotton, the seven peahens arrived and six alighted in the tree, but the seventh became a beautiful princess, and came across the garden to him.
The peahens came no more to the apple-tree, and the prince was much grieved on this account, and wept and mourned day after day.
The Golden Apples and the Nine Peahens (Zlata yabluka i devat paunky).
But as soon as the prince heard where the peahens were, he would not listen to her talk, but in the morning ordered his servant to get the horses ready to go to the lake.
When the peahens had finished bathing, they all flew away, and he awoke, and asked his servant: 'What is it?
When he entered the town he inquired where the palace of the nine peahens was.
When they arrived at the shore of the lake, he calculated the time when the peahens would arrive, blew the whistle behind his master's neck, and he immediately fell as sound asleep as if he were dead.
The prince, on coming to the old empress, asked her to tell him about the nine peahens, if she knew about them; and the old woman replied that she did, and that the nine peahens came daily to bathe in the lake.
When it was near midnight the nine peahens flew up as before, and eight of them settled on the branches, and the ninth stood by his bed, and turned into a most beautiful girl.
But the peahens never came back, so the king's son was very sad for a long time, and wept at his loss.
After they had bathed, all the peahens flew away together, and after they were gone the prince woke up, and said to his servant, 'What has happened?
The peahens in the Lahore "Zoo" lay all their eggs on a broad shelf in their aviary, some fifteen feet above the level of the ground.
Anderson states that peahens frequently lay at high elevations, that he has on several occasions taken their eggs from the roofs of huts of deserted villages on which rank vegetation grew to a height of two or three feet.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "peahens" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
