Peacocks in example sentence

There were, besides, apes and peacocks and jugglers, new ones every day, together with dancers on the slack rope, and wonderful packing-cases from Calcutta, out of which he was allowed to choose ivory-handled pistols and little gold-hilted swords with seed-pearls set in a groove along the middle, and running musically up and down as he waved the blade round his head.

More example sentences with word peacocks

Well trust me, no one ever took them up on that offer unless someone out there is terrified of plastic skulls, peacocks, weird gardeners, and doors being knocked on.

His reason for doing so was to explain male peacocks’ obviously hindering tail feathers and male lions’ apparently useless manes.

As Darwin did not believe that pure aesthetics would guide female peacocks and lions in their choice of mating partners, he had to find a rational reason for females’ preference for males with hindering characteristics.

Peacocks have evolved to have long, colorful feathers simply because peahens have evolved to find them attractive.

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