How To Use Piebald In A Sentence
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It looks to me like a "piebald" black duck. aside from the whitish-cream color the whitish ring around the bill has me stumped.
The other day i was out taking pictures of ducks,and their was a solid white duck with some brown, does anyone have an idea what
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The Mage rode in on a beautiful piebald draft horse just before the first dinner bell.
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I quickly discovered that a piebald pigeon has taken up residence atop the light fixture on the balcony.
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The seventh time I was riding a bucking piebald.
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And then, to prove to the Farseers that they were vulnerable, the Piebalds would pull me down as hounds pull down a stag.
THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
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The word "piebald" could also apply, though it generally refers to a combination of black and white.
Roundrock Journal
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She moved with a slink that was more feline than Piebald's walk.
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True piebalds never have blue eyes and always have white tail tips.
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The big piebald and her rider continued towards a large jump that had been set up and leapt over it with graceful ease.
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First came a tolerably good band, a little too drummy, but still not amiss -- well dressed, only the performers being of all colours, from white, down to jet -- black, had a curious hodge -- podge, or piebald appearance.
Tom Cringle's Log
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Yet, they and the other clans who travelled the country kept faith with their piebalds and skewbalds.
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I want a scrubby, ornery, low-down, snuff-dipping, back-woodsy, piebald gang, who never heard of finger bowls or Ward McAllister, but who can get up a mess of hot cornbread and Irish stew at regular market quotations. '
Rolling Stones
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a piebald horse
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Puppies, palm readings, pots, piebald ponies and porcelain were all haggled over at one of the biggest fairs for years.
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Even the Jacob sheep seemed as if they had been chiselled out of piebald stone.
Country diary: Claxton, Norfolk
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The latter word is properly balled, i.e., marked with a ball, or white streak, a word of Celtic origin; cf. "piebald," i.e., balled like a (mag) pie, and the "bald-faced stag.
The Romance of Names
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General colorful butterflies, the wings and body there are various piebald head rod or a pair of hammer-like tentacles.
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He glances over at Gregorious on a white stallion, and Valerius, on a piebald.
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A piebald horse looms from the drizzle beside its new timber-built stable, and higher, on former downland with treeless hedges, the barley is yellowing.
Country diary
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The resting caravan, surrounded by happy tousled children, mongrel dogs and piebald ponies grazing the long acre presents an attractive picture and few of us have not, at some time, envied these nomadic people their happy ways of life.
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If a horse is "piebald", its coat has large patches of which two colours?
The Friday Brain-teaser from Credo Reference
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Sturdy ponies that pulled family traps to Mass and churns of milk to the creamery, plough horses that once turned the brown earth to the sky and piebalds and skewbalds that were once the preserve of the Travellers have and are being bred here.
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A painted horse is a quarter horse with colour, not like piebald or a pinto.
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These and the hedgerows drifted in and out with the ebb and flow of the firelight, but the two piebald horses were too far away to be seen, although they could be heard occasionally, blowing and stamping.
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Its tongue was piebald, and it protruded most pathetically from the unicorn's dead mouth.
STARDUST
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Plosh!" went Mr Jones right in backwards; and "spatter" went the foul mud all over his face and shirt-front, and then the poor little man tried to scramble out, but slipped in again, making himself worse than ever; but his next effort was more successful; and when Sam saw him standing amongst the potatoes looking all piebald, his heart was joyful within him, as he hurried home to tell the boys the success of their plot.
Hollowdell Grange Holiday Hours in a Country Home
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A normal ball python today typically sells for under $100; a "piebald" python — white with rare blotches of brown and green — can fetch $3,000.
Bear Market in Boas: Proposed Laws Strangle Sales of Mutant Snakes
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Imperious piebald porkers parked in the middle of the roads challenge you to run over them.
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In the broad and piebald field of eliptonic bibliophany, I will admit to being a sucker for Beauty, either as a physical artifact -- Manly Palmer Hall's Secret Teachings of All Ages being the epitome here -- or in prose style, which is far less common, though Charles Fort's rhetorical swoop and staccato larrup is a Mauve Decade ironist's delight.
Kenneth Hite's Journal
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And then, to prove to the Farseers that they were vulnerable, the Piebalds would pull me down as hounds pull down a stag.
THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
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This little guy is what's known as a piebald squirrel - the term piebald applies to any animal displaying depigmented white fur.
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Last week, a bronze-skinned buckaroo, with a flashing red neckerchief above his blue shirt, with shining leather chaparejos and crimson saddle-blanket, dashed up from a Western skyline on a snorting, piebald cow-pony.
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'He was plaguy hot at first, but he soon came round, and he hath promised that if I pay for the hire of a dragooner as long as the war shall last I shall have back the piebald.'
Micah Clarke His Statement as made to his three grandchildren Joseph, Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734
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6. If a horse is "piebald", its coat has large patches of which two colours?
April 2009
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He says that perhaps the Piebald Prince got his Wit as much from his royal mother as his baseborn father.
THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
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I've seen black coyotes (melanistic), completely hairless coyotes (mange), piebald deer, a red racoon (erythristic), black squirrels (gray and fox) a silver fox (color phase of red fox) a three legged wild hog, and a three legged deer.
Whats the weirdest animal youve ever seen while hunting?
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The natural extension of his work on the genetics of pigmentation led him into a study of piebald mice, this turned out to be a quagmire.
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The darkness was becoming piebald; gray blotches appearing at the corners of his sight.
EVERVILLE
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Partial albinism, necessarily congenital, presenting a piebald appearance, must not be confounded with leukoderma, which is rarely seen in the young and which will be described later.
Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
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Cade sat astride his piebald gelding, Stetson tipped low over his eyes.
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Twenty pages on Bishop Myriel -- that rather piebald angel who makes the way impossible for any successor by his fantastic and indecent "apostolicism" in living; who tells, _not_ like St. Athanasius, an allowable equivocation to save his valuable self, but a downright lie to save a worthless rascal; and who admits defeat in argument by the stale sophisms of a moribund _conventionnel_ -- might have been tolerable.
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century
