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But the peacock was a gentleman in his cups and reeled away to swallow the lump and, I hope, to sleep off his debauch, in some more secluded spot where, if he were discovered, we should not be suspected There was another afternoon I wonder Harland did not make use of which, had I been in a pedantic mood, I might have taken as an object-lesson in the art and occupation of shocking the bourgeois_.— Nights Rome, Venice, in the Aesthetic Eighties; London, Paris, in the Fighting Nineties
For, whereas the peacock is a fool even among birds, the Duke had already taken (besides a particularly brilliant First in Mods) the Stanhope, the Newdigate, the Lothian, and the Gaisford Prize for Greek Verse.— Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story
He's just like a peacock, and as proud of his feathers.— The Rajah of Dah
I remember me that our peacock was a diplomatist and had huge interest in your delightful stories A movement of Mungo's made him turn to see the Baron standing behind him a little bewildered at this apparition Failte!_" said the Baron, "and I fancy you would be none the waur, as we say, of the fireside He went before him into the salle_, taking Mungo's candle.— Doom Castle
So she tried to form an acquaintance, and, as the peacock was not half so vain as he looked, she succeeded very well.— Chatterbox, 1905.

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