fictile

Example Sentences

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For ours is a most fictile world; and man is the most fingent plastic of creatures.

From The French Revolution by Carlyle, Thomas

"Jupiter angusta vix totus stabat in �de; Inque Jovis dextra fictile fulmen erat."

From Walks in Rome by Hare, Augustus J. C.

We learn this from the paintings on Greek fictile vases.

From Needlework As Art by Alford, Marianne Margaret Compton Cust, Viscountess

Al-Barníya, "vas fictile in quo quid recondunt," whence the Spanish word Albornia, "a great glazed vessel in the shape of a bowl, with handles."

From The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Yule, Henry

They take a high place among American fictile products for grace of form and beauty of decoration.

From Ancient art of the province of Chiriqui, Colombia Sixth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1884-1885, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1888, pages 3-188 by Holmes, William Henry