The salty waters of the latter began to glitter with gold and throb with the reflection of peacock feathers.
"In Desert and Wilderness"
Henryk Sienkiewicz
As my man lays down my bag and useless weapon at the foot of the central tree, there's a crash in the leaves above, and down and away goes a glorious peacock.
"From Edinburgh to India & Burmah"
William G. Burn Murdoch
There was something delightful to her vanity in the eastern term "sultan," a title associated in her mind with barbaric splendour, showers of diamonds and pearls, cloth of gold, elephants with silver howdahs, attended by troops of slaves bearing peacock fans, chowries, and palm-leaf punkahs.
"One Maid's Mischief"
George Manville Fenn