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
Before washing them, take out grease, with a paste, made of potter's clay, ox-gall, and water.
From A Treatise on Domestic Economy For the Use of Young Ladies at Home and at School by Beecher, Catharine Esther
This book also tells about a certain wasp that makes pottery and gets her clay from the very same bank that certain other people depend on for their potter's clay.
From The Adventures of a Grain of Dust by Hawksworth, Hallam
It was composed of flint, potter's clay, carbonate of barytes, and terra ponderosa.
From The Romance of Industry and Invention by Cochrane, Robert
