Yet Peacock was a poet of considerable merit, his best work in this direction being scattered at random throughout his novels.

The parrot was the clergyman, the peacock was the clerk, The bullfinch played the organ,we made merry work.

Peacock and I were the editors.

Above and around the circular glory the emblematical vine twines in arabesque form; among the branches and leaves sit peacocks and other birds; the peacock being the old emblem of immortality, as birds in general are emblems of spirituality.

" The minister who drilled him said that "peacock" was an excellent word for ending a sentence, only kings should not let subjects hear it, but should whisper it softly.

She had, moreover, peacocks, and macaws, and parrots, and all sorts of singing-birds, and falcons of every breed, and horses, and hounds,in short, there is no saying what she did not have.

I reasoned: Anybody can keep hens, "me and Crankin" can raise ducks, geese thrive naturally with me, but a peacock is a rare and glorious possession.

It is therefore not to be wondered at that he was regarded by Airy with the greatest esteem and affection, and though they were afterwards separated, by Peacock becoming Dean of Ely and Airy Astronomer Royal, yet their warm friendship was never broken.

A peacock roasted whole and served up ornamented with its feathers was a favourite dish at the banquets of the fifteenth century.