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  • It was the first of five titles about a boy named Taran, an assistant pig-keeper who finds himself thrust into an epic struggle between good and evil in the magical land of Prydain.

    Taran Wanders Again 2010

  • That made his life so unbearably stultifying that Kellen would gladly have traded places with an apprentice pig-keeper, if there were such a thing to be found within the walls of Armethalieh.

    Tran Siberian Michael J. Solender 2010

  • And he imagined how amused the court in Cheng'di would be to see him crouched here in serious converse with a pig-keeper or teaching a woman hunter-signs; and he imagined much more what a joke they would make of it if he took to teaching her more martial skills than that, or taking her for a partner in his hunting.

    2005 Cherryh, C. J. 2005

  • That made his life so unbearably stultifying that Kellen would gladly have traded places with an apprentice pig-keeper, if there were such a thing to be found within the walls of Armethalieh.

    The Outstretched Shadow 2003

  • It approaches the subject from the point of view of both the commercial producer and of the village pig-keeper.

    1. Intensive sustainable livestock production: an alternative to tropical deforestation. 1992

  • Avid perusal of the database may confirm individuals 'hopes of links to an aristocratic past; alternatively, UWE's researchers might pinpoint your name as having been given sometime in the Middle Ages to the local squire's favourite pig-keeper.

    Latest education news, including the university guide 2010, RAE results, higher and schools news, schools tables and further education | guardian.co.uk Louise Tickle 2010

  • Avid perusal of the database may confirm individuals 'hopes of links to an aristocratic past; alternatively, UWE's researchers might pinpoint your name as having been given sometime in the Middle Ages to the local squire's favourite pig-keeper.

    The Guardian World News 2010

  • Avid perusal of the database may confirm individuals 'hopes of links to an aristocratic past; alternatively, UWE's researchers might pinpoint your name as having been given sometime in the Middle Ages to the local squire's favourite pig-keeper.

    Latest education news, including the university guide 2010, RAE results, higher and schools news, schools tables and further education | guardian.co.uk Louise Tickle 2010

  • When people called Howard become snobbish about their ancient name, which some of the sillier ones do, the way to take them down a peg is to remind them that their name is derived from Hog-ward, or pig-keeper.

    VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VII No 3 1980

  • There’s the story of the couple on their honeymoon who still have to discover what sharing and intimacy truly mean; there’s the story of the young Scottish boy who loves his older brother more than anything; there’s the story of the pig-keeper who gets too attached to one of the lab pigs he looks after; there’s the story of the woman who feels her life crumbling along with her marriage.

    Archive 2007-06-01 2007

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