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
Grease can be taken out of wall-paper, by making a paste of potter's clay, water and ox-gall, and spreading it on the paper.
From A Treatise on Domestic Economy For the Use of Young Ladies at Home and at School by Beecher, Catharine Esther
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
It was composed of flint, potter's clay, carbonate of barytes, and terra ponderosa.
From The Romance of Industry and Invention by Cochrane, Robert
