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Example sentences for "burnt clay"

  • Sir Gardner Wilkinson has also in his possession pieces of mortar, which he took from each of the three great pyramids, in which bits of broken pottery and of burnt clay or brick are embedded.

  • When the day comes, as come it must, in which we no more deface and defile God's image in living clay, I am not sure that we shall any of us care so much for the images made of Him, in burnt clay.

  • That slime we shall find in most cases composed of clay (or brickdust, which is burnt clay), mixed with soot, a little sand and water.

  • Rushing to a large vessel of burnt clay, standing alongside the wall and filled with water, he plunged both hands into it, and began to bespatter the assailants with the not very clean liquid.

  • The new-comer was a young girl too; she carried on her head a vessel of burnt clay similar to a flat urn, decorated with black and red designs on cream-coloured ground, and filled with water.

  • The niches contained small vessels of burnt clay and a few plume-sticks.

  • On the top of this a piece of burnt clay, perforated with small holes, should be put, and on this again a stratum of three or four inches thick, of well burnt pounded animal charcoal.

  • From fire-clay, mixed with silica, coke, burnt clay, or other infusible matter.

  • About 2 feet under the surface was a thick layer of burnt clay, which probably formed the roof.

  • Excavations in the areas showed that they were covered with a layer of burnt clay, uneven and broken; immediately below this a layer of ashes 6 inches thick, and below this black loam.

  • The frost that imprisons the alligator in the Mississippi as effectually cuts it off from food and action as the drought which incarcerates the crocodile in the sun-burnt clay of a Ceylon tank.

  • Pipes of lead are occasionally met with in the ruins of the stations, and pipes of burnt clay are of very frequent occurrence.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    being attached; burnt brick; burnt bricks; burnt clay; burnt offering; burnt offerings; burnt sacrifice; burnt sienna; burnt umber; burnt upon the altar; common fund; each valve; faithful friends; grand seigneur; her lord; infinite wisdom; meet with; notary public; pleasant thing; save only; stepped inside; turned upside; well governed; will thee; wings and tail black; wood ashes