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Craftsmen often turn these gnarled masses into kitschy restaurant decor by carving their stumps into the shape of a peacock's head with the roots trailing out like feathers.
The Art of Resistance Kelly Crow 2011
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What, I wonder, would the Sun King have looked like without his peacock's display of couture, fancy accessories and wigs?
Peter Clothier: Big Day at LACMA Peter Clothier 2010
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A peacock's cry pierces the morning, shattering the quiet of the mango and guava orchards.
Dream Hideaways: The World's Top Microboutique Hotels Forbes Life Staff 2010
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What limits the size of a peacock's tail, the weight of a deer's antlers or the virtuosity of a songbird's song?
Why Frogs Don't Sing Like Sinatra Matt Ridley 2011
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His idea is that the human brain is the anthropoid equivalent of the peacock's tail.
Hide this from Robin Hanson, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Charles Darwin was taken with the male bowerbird's excesses, just as he was taken with the extreme ornamentation of a male peacock's tail feathers, for which he could see no purpose except to delight the mind of the female.
How Artistry Evolved Jennie Erin Smith 2011
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It's obvious this peacock's got game even if it's a game not all the shorties at the Snakehole Lounge are necessarily playing, but he still holds a torch for his ex-wife, Wendy.
Hulu.com: Parks and Recreation: A Who's Who of Pawnee's Finest Bureaucrats Hulu.com 2011
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In the amethyst and sapphire of the peacock's wing you find no rationality; to you it is a manifestation of the wonder which is taboo.
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It's obvious this peacock's got game even if it's a game not all the shorties at the Snakehole Lounge are necessarily playing, but he still holds a torch for his ex-wife, Wendy.
Hulu.com: Parks and Recreation: A Who's Who of Pawnee's Finest Bureaucrats Hulu.com 2011
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I always thought that the justification for a peacock's tail was a case of not accepting any evidence as falsifying the theory.
Economics and Evolution, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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