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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.

    The Week's Rare Breed - Gloucester Old Spot Pig 2007

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • ‘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

  • 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

  • A few moments later he emerged with a soft, sandy-coloured bundle.

    The Last Gamble Nichols, Mary 1996

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