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
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
The potter’s clay has been tested in England, and found to be very good.
From Handbook to the new Gold-fields by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)
The multitude stands between Destiny on the one side, and the Hero on the other; a sport to the first, and as potter's clay to the second.
From Critical Miscellanies, Vol. I Essay 2: Carlyle by Morley, John
