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
Salt springs are also numerous; gypsum is obtained in large quantities, with pipe and potter's clay; yellow ocher sometimes occurs; and there are many kinds of valuable building stones.
From The Conquest of Canada (Vol. 1 of 2) by Warburton, George
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
Mansell was as potter's clay in this man's hands.
From The Trail of the Axe A Story of Red Sand Valley by Cullum, Ridgwell
