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  • The Star-Eyed had granted them the use of that power for the purpose of healing the land after the Mage-Wars, and it wouldn't even have occurred to them to make such a frivolous use of it as a peacocklike display of achievement with that power.

    Elephant in the City 2010

  • Hanging on the patio doors at our place in Florida is a stained-glass window: a striking peacocklike bird with gorgeous blue-green plumage arising out of orange and yellow flames and looking toward a cloud-dotted sky.

    Healed by Horses Carole Fletcher 2005

  • Hanging on the patio doors at our place in Florida is a stained-glass window: a striking peacocklike bird with gorgeous blue-green plumage arising out of orange and yellow flames and looking toward a cloud-dotted sky.

    Healed by Horses Carole Fletcher 2005

  • Hanging on the patio doors at our place in Florida is a stained-glass window: a striking peacocklike bird with gorgeous blue-green plumage arising out of orange and yellow flames and looking toward a cloud-dotted sky.

    Healed by Horses Carole Fletcher 2005

  • Hanging on the patio doors at our place in Florida is a stained-glass window: a striking peacocklike bird with gorgeous blue-green plumage arising out of orange and yellow flames and looking toward a cloud-dotted sky.

    Healed by Horses Carole Fletcher 2005

  • Producing his favorite word from behind his back with a peacocklike flourish, the Master declared:

    Pinter Land Davies, Russell 1979

  • Many men, meanwhile, pose peacocklike in front of their cars or boats or homes.

    NYT > Home Page 2010

  • a really gaudy peacocklike member of the guinea fowl tribe, I handed it over to him with instructions to take off the breast feathers before giving it to the cook.

    The Land of Footprints Stewart Edward White 1909

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