| Sargent is portrayed as modest, self-denying and unambitious, the antithesis of the preening Oxford peacocks. |
| To get there you must climb a kilometre long flight of steps, now a deserted forest path frequented only by babbler birds, peacocks and monkeys. |
| I wrote saying that peacocks were a very good thing, and that wild ones were spreading across Somerset. |
| Guests at Prestonfield can enjoy rural tranquillity, strutting peacocks and lowing Highland cattle without sacrificing access to the Royal Mile. |
| I stayed with them in their base at Sukhum, a shabby old Soviet hotel with peacocks in the garden. |
| They went back to the refuge of their hole happy, for they had seen a few peacocks, a few koels and a flock of doves. |
