potter's clay
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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
It was composed of flint, potter's clay, carbonate of barytes, and terra ponderosa.
From The Romance of Industry and Invention by Cochrane, Robert
His arms, thin but strong, with the skin stretched by the tension of veins and tendons, were stained to the elbow by the red potter's clay.
From Sónnica by Blasco Ibáñez, Vicente
I climb sand-hills of strange and fantastic shapes, cones, and domes, and roof-like ridges, where the sportive wind seems to have played with the plastic mass, as children with potter’s clay.
From The Rifle Rangers by Reid, Mayne
