The peacock comb consists of two common combs having strong needles separated from one another by 1/2 inch.
Peacock marble is one of the newest and prettiest of marbles.
The more homogeneous and the smaller the viscosity of the mucilage of the sizing, the better for comb, peacock and bouquet edging.
Then Srutadhi said smiling, "The man who took away yourpeacock is renowned as a clever thief.
Then the prince consented, as he wished to learn something of his goings on; and the warder called one of his servants and said to him, "Take this man to the room where the peacock is, and let him rest there and give him a bed.
I have a peacock in my house, to which you would not find an equal in the world.
And then the rider on the peacock summoned him to enter his inmost shrine, in order to shew him special favour.
And the peacock came out and, after looking intently at Mrigankadatta, it fell down and rolled at his feet again and again.
When the king of Vatsa heard Vayupatha say this, being full of longing for his son, he seemed like a peacock that rejoices when it hears the roaring of the rain-clouds.
He then departed, fastening the outer door with a chain, and Mrigankadatta saw the peacock there in a cage.
But when he reached his own palace and looked into the house where the peacock was, he could not find either the thief or the peacock.
Then terrified and despondent he returned and said to his sovereign; "My lord, that peacock has been taken away in the night by a thief.
The youth beholding her, bewildering the three worlds with her beauty, like the bunch of peacock feathers of the conjuror Cupid, was much troubled.
In a fable of AEsop's the birds choose a peacock king.
Learn, my two dear friends, that the sacred white peacock brought to these misty shores for my undying glory, has been lost to me!
Making sure that both windows were closed, I thrust the peacock into the cab and shut the door upon it.
It's the first time I ever saw a peacock in Limehouse!
One of these men was a perfect peacock with the patches on his dervish dress.
They say the Arabs are furious at losing their Peacock dervish (who was one of their officers) yesterday, and also at the constant desertions, and have written to the Mahdi to ask whether they are to kill these blacks or not.
After it came four lines of Chinese girls, fanning the air with peacockfans on long staves, fans of white egret feathers, and ostrich plumes dyed a yellow gold.
One king lay stiff, and stark, and dead, Another on the peacock throne Bowed reverently his youthful head.
Banners were hung along the wall, The King sat on his peacock throne, And now the hoary Marechal Brings in the youth,--bare skin and bone.
Here and there a white peacock would be snared, or a boar whose tusks promised a battle royal with some leopard or tiger.
They had never seen a Peacock and did not even know that there was such a fowl.
How would it suit you to watch the Peacock for a while?
So the Peacock is proud of having grown such a fine train and crest, but he isn't ashamed of his homely feet, because he couldn't help having those!
One day the Peacock was standing on the fence alone.
The Peacock turned his head so that they could see it more plainly.
The Peacock bowed his crested head, and they bowed their uncrested and very silly ones, and then they went to the river.
But the Peacock did not seem to feel at all sorry.
The Chickens used to laugh when the Peacock uttered his cry of "Paon!
He said this in a very haughty way, as though to be a Peacock were the grandest thing in the world, far better than having one's home in the sky and bringing showers to refresh the thirsty earth-people.
The Peacockthought them most agreeable, because they admired him, and they thought him the best sort of acquaintance, because he didn't work.
Guess the Peacock will wish now that he hadn't put on airs.
A reputation for mathematics had preceded him, and he was kindly received by Mr Peacock {164} and Professor Sedgwick.
Mr Peacock a manuscript book containing "a number of original Propositions" which he had investigated.
But nothing ever discouraged Caesar, and he had more fun with Miss Goodmaid's favorite peacock than all the game in New Jersey would have afforded him; as subsequent events developed the fact that he was mortally afraid of a gun.
The father smiled deliciously, and seemed about to answer, but before he could speak the child cried out, and leaped, and clapped his little hands for delight, because the peacock had suddenly outspread the splendor of its tail.
The people fed the deer and the bear with cakes, and tried to coax the peacock to open its tail, and grievously tormented the ape.
Why, you vain peacock of a fellow, who do you think is going to notice the size of your head?
She saw China lions serving as cigar holders, ladies in dancing attitudes holding tallow candles, photographs of family groups with peacock feathers stuck behind, a spherical aquarium containing gold fish, and a spotted goat skin.
On returning to the hotel he did not have supper served as usual in their rooms, but led Lilly to the general dining room, where a gypsy band was playing and elegant folk of all descriptions were spreading their peacock feathers.
On the following day she lunched at the hotel, spent two fruitless hours in its public corridors between tea time and time to dress for dinner, and another in Peacock Alley after dinner, seeing nothing whatever of Marbridge.
The one he donned to-day was elegant in the extreme; peacock purple over an under garment of rose, curiously slashed with cream.
He looked a somewhat sorry figure, his peacock doublet crumpled, his hair uncurled, his hands shaking.
At Delhi also he erected the celebrated peacock throne; but his favourite place of residence was Agra, where his name will ever be associated with the marvel of Indian architecture, the Taj Mahal.
Among birds the woodcock, peacock and numerous species of duck inhabit the woods and marshes.
We are not feasting on baked swans, peacocktongues and drinking our pearls.
I'm hungry as Likeliest when he waited for them to find enough peacock tongues to satisfy his appetite.
Later he sauntered off on slightly unsteady legs to promenade himself in the lobby and Peacock Alley.
But he was a Chesterfield in manners; he did not stare at any of the lively young persons in Peacock Alley, who seemed inclined to look pleasantly at him; he made room for them to pass, hat in hand.
The huge medallion of gold had slid down in the west from the dome through which were shot great streamers of red and mauve, and a peacock perched high in a sal tree far up on the mountainside sent forth his strident cry of "Miaou!
A peacockperched high in the feathery top of a giant sal tree was crying "miaow, miaow!
Augustus Peacock and Julius Candy (this enviable duo) were two such young men as may be met with in herds any fine afternoon publishing their persons to the frequenters of Regent-street.
Augustus Peacock had abandoned the moors of Scotland for the beauties of Almack's; and Julius Candy had hastened from the banks of the Wye for the fascinations of Taglioni and the Opera.
The notion of peacock feathers winking like so many London urchins is perhaps one of her rather aggressive and outrageous figures of speech.
