potch

Example Sentences

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Books like this are always a hotch-potch, but here the potch is well and truly hotched.

From The Guardian • Jul. 26, 2012

He held up a piece of green potch with a sun-flash through it.

From The Black Opal by Prichard, Katharine Susannah

"That's a nice bit of colour, Michael," he said, admiring a small piece of grey potch with a black strain which flashed needling rays of green and gold.

From The Black Opal by Prichard, Katharine Susannah

Roy O'Mara, working on his trace of promising black potch, still had found nothing to justify his hope of an early haul.

From The Black Opal by Prichard, Katharine Susannah

I hung on to the best stone in the lot—clear brown potch with good flame in it—hopin' it would give me a clue some day to the man who'd done that trick on me.

From The Black Opal by Prichard, Katharine Susannah