The cemetery guardian's family, who live in a red-and-white brick house, keep peacocks, and put seeds in the birdhouse on several of the trees.

Perhaps in consequence, Harewood became somewhat superstitious and, for example, would never keep peacocks or sit down to dinner when there were 13 at table.

Her grandfather, Colonel William H. Jack of Natchitoches, kept pheasants, eagles, and peacocks.

The couple had no children, but at Beeleigh Abbey, their 12th-century home, she kept cats, dogs, peacocks and tortoises.

The Lintons keep peacocks at Thrushcross Grange, and Cathy is swathed in furs as if the north of England were Siberia.

It was at the Finca that Hemingway began to keep and breed cats (he had kept only peacocks in Key West).

The work was so popular that it allowed Mr. Hadfield to buy Barham Manor, a beautiful but decrepit 16th-century house north of Ipswich where he designed gardens and kept peacocks.

Today, Mrs. Shah paints in one and keeps llamas, sheep, goats, peacocks, and black and white swans in the other.

Incidentally, he introduces into his explanations the current German expressions for the things he is treating of, with the apology that Solomon had set him the example by keeping monkeys as well as peacocks at his court.

Some members are said to keep live peacocks.