This sale includes two lots of sharks, a calf, a black sheep, a zebra and four skinned cows' heads, as well as a pony dressed up with a plastic narwhal horn to look like a unicorn.

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In light of its fresh tie-up with Microsoft, we can understand how any LG smartphone not running WinMo might be perceived as a black sheep this week.

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There is a black sheep in every big family.

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The scene is like something from a Biblical epic: 2, 000 sheep are being driven across a desert of black lava.

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The GAO speculates that the dollar coin might cause a renewed interest in that black sheep of the currency family, the two-dollar bill (which features Thomas Jefferson).

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More radical than either the Glorious Undead or the Order of the Black Sheep is a third organisation known simply as Asylum.

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He got a laugh when he called himself the black sheep of the Bush family.

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This part of the company is the black sheep, with a margin (EBIT) averaging 3% over the past three years, compared with 13% for the rest of Honeywell.

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In Fylingdales, among the black-faced sheep of northern Yorkshire, sits a radar station built by the U.S. If expanded, it could well become an outpost much needed to track missiles on their way to North America and to plot their interception.

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She wears the traditional fine-woven, huge-brimmed hat and her gathered black skirt sways as she guides the sheep through the pasture in a circuit back to the village for the night.

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