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  • However, large-tailed dogs, including German shepherds and collies, have no difficulty figuring out how to avoid hygiene problems.

    The Painful Cost of 'Breed Standards' 2009

  • It captures a large-tailed fancy goldfish as he swims between swaying fronds.

    Featured Etsy Shop: Plastic Pumpkin Studio Marcy - Marcy Lamberson 2007

  • It captures a large-tailed fancy goldfish as he swims between swaying fronds.

    Archive 2007-10-01 Studio Marcy - Marcy Lamberson 2007

  • It captures a large-tailed fancy goldfish as he swims between swaying fronds.

    Archive 2007-10-01 Studio Marcy - Marcy Lamberson 2007

  • It captures a large-tailed fancy goldfish as he swims between swaying fronds.

    Etsy Featured Shop: Plastic Pumpkin Studio Marcy - Marcy Lamberson 2007

  • He had changed his garb of ceremony and servitude; he wore grey now, one of those stomach-exposing, large-tailed coats which lend even to the straightest man the appearance of being bandy-legged; and upon his feet were a pair of tried and proven cloth boots.

    Those Who Smiled And Eleven Other Stories Perceval Gibbon 1902

  • For the dreaded Ba-gcatya at home were a quiet and pastoral race -- owning extensive herds of cattle -- also goats and a strange kind of large-tailed sheep -- though, true to their origin, horned cattle formed the staple of their possessions, and the land around the king's great palace was dappled with grazing stock, and the air was musical with the singing of women hoeing the millet and maize gardens.

    The Sign of the Spider Bertram Mitford 1884

  • The sheep are the large-tailed variety, and generally of a black colour.

    The Last Journals of David Livingstone from 1865 to His Death Ed 1874

  • The sheep are the large-tailed variety, and generally of a black colour.

    The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume I (of 2), 1866-1868 David Livingstone 1843

  • However, large-tailed dogs, including German shepherds and collies, have no difficulty figuring out how to avoid hygiene problems.

    CounterPunch 2009

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