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    earthenware


    1. It was a pretty good imitation of what he would have liked back home, a sprawling ranch built out of earthenware blocks with a tile and beam roof


    2. Just the fact that his home was proudly built out of cut timber and earthenware block was enough to mark it as foreign


    3. stiff as an earthenware flower pot, for cold glazed pottery was what


    4. more large earthenware jars secured tightly in the middle


    5. Down the middle of the table were earthenware vases with fresh flower arrangements, evenly spaced


    6. The next generation of earthenware is from the sixth millennium and was found south of the Zagros


    7. We can sit outside in this enclosed space where small trees in earthenware pots, vines and shrubs create a magical forest effect


    8. But “Casserole Cookery” is a phrase used to denote cookery in earthenware pots


    9. It commends itself especially to food-reformers, as the slow cookery renders the food more digestible, and the earthenware pots are easier to keep clean than the ordinary saucepan


    10. (The water should be distilled, if possible, and the cooking done in a large earthenware jar or casserole

    11. A small enameled kettle or saucepan should be used for heating it, and it should be stored in glass or earthenware vessels only


    12. earthenware to PVC coupler will complete this


    13. Coming into sharp contact with the underside of a timber shelf, the wight instinctively travelled magically upwards through the wood to avoid injury only to clatter the top of his skull off the undersides of the various glass and earthenware vessels stored atop the shelf


    14. It is made of earthenware, seven inches high and thirteen inches wide at the top


    15. be stored in earthenware pots


    16. themselves were preserved in earthenware pots


    17. earthenware pots or water pots as they were called,


    18. stored in earthenware pots


    19. earthenware containers, perfectly preserved after two thousand years


    20. This sets up the imagery that people, like these earthenware pots or water pots as they

    21. We entered the city just before dawn not a sound was heard, the hill inside the eastern boundary of Xolalpan had a solitary tree on its peak and the traitor was chained to it, two of Wedon’s assistants brought forward a large earthenware vessel and Yaotl was smeared from head to foot in the jelly from the jar, as dawn was breaking Coatl dispersed the people to another hill overlooking the execution site, when the sun came up four flaming arrows were released, one to each of the compass points, drums beat out a loud, echoing, thump, thump, thump, a second jar of the jelly was ignited and burned with a fury, Coatl and I retired to a safe distance, we expected that soon this area would be teeming with the Teoti’s forces, our expectations fell well short, considering they were at war they were very slow in responding to the fire, it took almost an hour for the army to show any interest in the burning jar of jelly or the sign that Wedon had fashioned explaining the priests treachery and the sentence they were about to witness, suddenly a large crowd gathered and someone then noticed the priest tied to the tree and they began to gather around him, at that instant Coatl raised his arm and a flaming arrow landed at Yaotl’s feet, for an instant nothing happened, then one of the priest’s feet caught fire and he was immediately enveloped in a flame so intense the people had to move back six to eight paces, in one hour the hill in Xolalpan no longer had a tree or any other sort of vegetation, all that remained of the priest was a greyish brown heap of ashes, we then returned to Bo-elon a more subdued and quiet band than had left


    22. Jodas and Wedon were taking full advantage of the deserted countryside and were pushing ahead with their part of the campaign, they had a steady stream of people laden with earthenware pots snaking their way north and returning empty handed, only to repeat the journey after a brief stop for some refreshment, this whole operation protected by the alert eyes of the Tolteca military had been going on now for four days and nights, as one carrier tired another would take his or her place, Coatl spent most of his time talking to the captains, who then passed on the tactics to the warriors, over and over again Coatl repeated the tactics


    23. He ran into the wall, knocking down a shelf of earthenware


    24. His “liquor still” was behind the rear of his barn so that he kept the flame outside the structure, but by means of copper pipe he collected the liquor in earthenware crocks inside the barn, safe from pilfers and raccoons


    25. " Olin had also purchased a large covered earthenware crock of pickles, the "medicine jar of the Oregon Trail", being called that because it was noted that if people living upon extremely poor diets ate pickles they tended to be free of scurvy


    26. How are you doing?’ He sniffed, saw the pair of lit candles, the dozen gorgeous sunflowers in the perfect, two-toned yellow earthenware vase


    27. earthenware pots on the fire to boil


    28. the earthenware pots and put on the fire to cook


    29. But was he really happy with his asceticism and his earthenware jar of a home? A Cynic philosopher


    30. Jeremiah 19:1-15 "Thus says the Lord, Go and buy a potter's earthenware jar, and

    31. Jeremiah 19:1-15 "Thus says the Lord, Go and buy a potter's earthenware jar, and take some to the elders of the people and some of the senior priests


    32. Others, men and women, dipped in the puddles with little mugs of mutilated earthenware, or even with handkerchiefs from women's heads, which were squeezed dry into infants' mouths; others made small mud-embankments, to stem the wine as it ran; others, directed by


    33. She went downstairs and returned with a white earthenware jug of water


    34. Katerina Ivanovna ran to the window; there, on a broken chair in the corner, a large earthenware basin full of water had been stood, in readiness for washing her children's and husband's linen that night


    35. There, on a table, surrounded at some distance by a large and luxurious divan, every species of tobacco known,—from the yellow tobacco of Petersburg to the black of Sinai, and so on along the scale from Maryland and Porto-Rico, to Latakia,—was exposed in pots of crackled earthenware of which the Dutch are so fond; beside them, in boxes of fragrant wood, were ranged, according to their size and quality, pueros, regalias, havanas, and manillas; and, in an open cabinet, a collection of German pipes, of chibouques, with their amber mouth-pieces ornamented with coral, and of narghiles, with their long tubes of morocco, awaiting the caprice or the sympathy of the smokers


    36. `You don't know what's in that,' said Frankie, referring to a large earthenware bread-pan which Nora had just asked Owen to help her to lift from the floor on to one of the chairs


    37. On the kitchen table were a few cracked cups and saucers, a broken knife, some lead teaspoons, a part of a loaf, a small basin containing some dripping and a brown earthenware teapot with a broken spout


    38. Their operations extended all over the town: at all hours of the day they were to be seen either going or returning from `jobs', carrying ladders, planks, pots of paint, pails of whitewash, earthenware, chimney pots, drainpipes, lengths of guttering, closet pans, grates, bundles of wallpaper, buckets of paste, sacks of cement, and loads of bricks and mortar


    39. In an adjoining room Andrea saw also a tolerably clean table prepared for two, two bottles of wine sealed, the one with green, the other with yellow, a supply of brandy in a decanter, and a measure of fruit in a cabbage-leaf, cleverly arranged on an earthenware plate


    40. and regular -- a circular lip of earthenware

    41. I SAT ON a stool in the kitchen and watched as Justine unloaded the dishwasher, put away the blue earthenware bowls we had bought together


    42. But there were no sounds, neither in the room nor in the house, except the drip of the water from the filter into the vast earthenware jar under the wooden stand


    43. earthenware jug of water


    44. "What is that?" exclaimed Charles, laughing, as he pointed to an oblong pot of brown earthenware, glazed on the inside, and edged with a fringe of ashes, from the bottom of which the coffee-grounds were bubbling up and falling in the boiling liquid


    45. He would provide ponies for each of them, and a horse for Gandalf, for their journey to the forest, and he would lade them with food to last them for weeks with care, and packed so as to be as easy as possible to carry-nuts, flour, sealed jars of dried fruits, and red earthenware pots of honey, and twice-baked cakes that would keep good a long time, and on a little of which they could march far


    46. I fancy it knew me: it pushed its nose against mine by way of salute, and then hastened to devour the porridge; while I groped from step to step, collecting the shattered earthenware, and drying the spatters of milk from the banister with my pocket-handkerchief


    47. His gaze, fixed ten or twelve paces in front of him, seemed to be scrutinizing with profound attention the shape of an ancient fragment of blue earthenware which had fallen in the grass


    48. The monastic orders gladly accept this heavy peasant earthenware, which is easily fashioned into a Capuchin or an Ursuline


    49. Jean Valjean inhabited the sort of porter's lodge which was situated at the end of the back courtyard, with a mattress on a folding-bed, a white wood table, two straw chairs, an earthenware water-jug, a few old volumes on a shelf, his beloved valise in one corner, and never any fire


    50. Two serving-maids, named Matelote and Gibelotte,49 and who had never been known by any other names, helped Mame Hucheloup to set on the tables the jugs of poor wine, and the various broths which were served to the hungry patrons in earthenware bowls















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    "earthenware" definitions

    ceramic ware made of porous clay fired at low heat