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Little is recorded of the breed's development but Victorian writers such as William Youatt in 'The Pig' and HD Richardson in 'The Pig - Its Origins and Varieties' seem to conclude that it was derived from crossing the original Gloucestershire pig - a large, off-white variety with wattles hanging from its neck, with the unimproved Berkshire, a sandy-coloured prick-eared pig with spots.
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Basically, if you go have a look and you see a sandy-coloured screen with lots of cool piccies across the top banner and my name in blue script, you're seeing the right site.
Hurray! karenmiller 2007
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Little is recorded of the breed's development but Victorian writers such as William Youatt in 'The Pig' and HD Richardson in 'The Pig - Its Origins and Varieties' seem to conclude that it was derived from crossing the original Gloucestershire pig - a large, off-white variety with wattles hanging from its neck, with the unimproved Berkshire, a sandy-coloured prick-eared pig with spots.
Archive 2007-07-15 2007
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Topping it all off was a bald head, which had once been covered with sandy-coloured hair.
An Ordinary Soldier Doug Beattie MC With Philip Gomm 2008
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When we arrived at its capital, Libreville, we found a city shrouded in a sandy-coloured haze that blocked out the bright African sun and the normally strikingly blue African sky.
ANC Today 2005
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When we arrived at its capital, Libreville, we found a city shrouded in a sandy-coloured haze that blocked out the bright African sun and the normally strikingly blue African sky.
ANC Today 2005
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He had a commonplace, rough face, with a turn-up nose, high cheek bones, no especial complexion, sandy-coloured whiskers, and bright laughing eyes, — not at all an Adonis such as her imagination had painted.
The Way We Live Now 2004
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‘A doosed sight,’ said the captain, hardly articulating from under his thick, sandy-coloured moustache, which, growing downwards from his nose, looked like a heavy thatch put on to protect his mouth from the inclemency of the clouds above.
The Three Clerks 2004
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He was thin in person and low in stature, with light sandy-coloured hair, and small pale features, from which he derived his agnomen of BEAN or white; and although his form was light, well proportioned and active, he appeared, on the whole, rather a diminutive and insignificant figure.
Waverley 2004
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A few moments later he emerged with a soft, sandy-coloured bundle.
The Last Gamble Nichols, Mary 1996
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