potter's clay
Example Sentences
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Nietzsche was the Marx of the right, the original culture warrior who believed that the future belongs to those with the courage to face the nihilism of the present and mold it like potter’s clay.
From New York Times • Nov. 20, 2018
Fresh masa has a thicker consistency, more like potter’s clay, and it smells like slightly fermented corn syrup, especially if it sits out for 24 hours before you use it.
From Washington Post • Jul. 13, 2015
At the bottom of this layer of clay another appeared, thicker and deeper, but Procope was not satisfied with that; it was not the real potter's clay.
From Iermola by Kraszewski, Jo?zef Ignacy
From thence he had fallen, and as the idol lay broken she had seen that what she thought sterling gold was but miserable potter’s clay.
From The Vicar's People by Fenn, George Manville
Her father, with the instinct of an artist, observes the outline and fills it in with potter's clay, and then bakes the model which he has obtained.
From Greek Women by Carroll, Mitchell
