How To Use Earthen In A Sentence

I took the pint mug of white earthenware from the shelf behind her. Prisons and Prisoners: Some Personal Experiences
It is burned in a metal or earthen dish called a brazier, and a double handful may last a family a whole day. Conservation Reader
The electrodes consist of metal grills covered with platinum or some other inoxidizable metal, and are placed in a vat with the intervention of perforated earthenware plates. Scientific American Supplement, No. 620, November 19,1887
Use a pot of white porcelain or glazed earthenware, with its edge partly serrated and provided with a lid, the skirt of which fits loosely inside
Curd is boiled, cooled and whisked buffalo milk poured into earthenware pots and left to set.

Hither ascended a _cantonnier_ when the new road was made up the valley, and here he found chipped flints of primeval man, a polished celt, a scrap of Samian ware, and in a niche at the side sealed up with stalactite, a tiny earthenware pitcher 2-1/2 inches high, a leaden spindle-whorl, some shells, and a toy sheep-bell. Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe
Those with relatives in Guangzhou will enjoy home cooking, especially the soup done slowly in earthenware pots over gas fires, and will rest in the space of their own bedrooms.
Here seems to be an allusion to the lamps which Gideon's soldiers carried in earthen pitchers, Jud. vii. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
While the meat barbecued and the cooking pots steamed, the captain explained to me the use of a large earthenware jar.
This dish is usually made in an earthenware casserole-type dish called a cassoulet. THE TANTE MARIE’S COOKING SCHOOL COOKBOOK
She sat at the table in front of us and proceeded to order an enormous earthenware jug of red wine and a gargantuan bowl of spaghetti with clam sauce.
About 300 stone blocks of decorative granite were used in the outer wall surrounding the earthen dome, the central staircase, and the hallway leading into the inner chambers.
The technique of making majolica begins with firing a piece of earthenware.
As the sky began to lighten in the east, humans and lizards moved quickly through the trees, wearing earthen colors and staying as low as possible to the ground.
Now she finds her eye drawn to French faience, a type of glazed earthenware.
The technique of making majolica begins with firing a piece of earthenware.
The museum's collection of pre-Columbian earthenware is outstanding and the museum is not so huge as to overwhelm the casual visitor. Guadalajara and the Iztepete archeological site
It shows men drinking from porcelain cups without handles, and coffee being served from a metal or earthenware jug.
So the Kitchener weighed it out to him and the good-for-naught entered the shop, whereupon the man set the food before him and he ate till he had gobbled up the whole and licked the saucers and sat perplexed, knowing not how he should do with the Cook concerning the price of that he had eaten, and turning his eyes about upon everything in the shop; and as he looked, behold, he caught sight of an earthen pan lying arsy-versy upon its mouth; so he raised it from the ground and found under it a horse's tail, freshly cut off and the blood oozing from it; whereby he knew that the Cook adulterated his meat with horseflesh. Arabian nights. English
Earthen plasters are breathable, allowing whatever moisture may be in the bale walls to escape.
Like motmots and todies, kingfishers often have brilliant plumage, are largely insectivorous, and nest in cavities that are often excavated in earthen banks.
They put this water in earthen jars to cool, in order to render it fit for drinking, but it never becomes fresh and cold. Life in Mexico, During a Residence of Two Years in That Country
Over the years his bones have darkened to the rich caramels of their earthen tomb.
Paragon looked to see a smooth trail that diverted from the ravine, leading into the passive earthen walls.
The next step in the procedure is to top up an earthen pot with water, preferably from a well.
She smiled at them and motioned towards the slumped figure of an old man, sitting on the earthen floor with his back to the wall of the cave.
‘Dimitri,’ whispered Bartholomew to the hulking form squatting in the center of the earthen room.
Earthen materials like steel, metal and granite are hard to get these days.
Few manufactured articles were bought. Salt, tar, iron, mill-stones, steel for tipping the edges of implements, canvas for the sails of the wind-mill, cloths for use in the dairy, in the malthouse, or in the grange, together with the dresses of the inhabitants of the hall, and a few vessels of brass, copper, or earthenware, satisfied the simple needs of the rural population.
The "pignus amoris" of the former is a small earthenware vessel in the shape of a book, intended apparently to hold a "nosegay" of flowers. Notes and Queries, Number 71, March 8, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
So I set to and ransacked the lockers, where, amongst a vast variety of miscellaneous matters, I was not long in finding a bottle of very tolerable rum, some salt junk, some biscuit, and a goglet or porous earthen jar of water, with some capital cigars. Tom Cringle's Log
Place the lamb chunks in a heavy earthenware or ovenproof dish with a lid.
God has wisely deposited the treasure in earthen vessels like ourselves, 2 Cor. iv. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
The 120 mm antitank round, using a depleted uranium core, penetrated the earthen berms protecting enemy tanks and destroyed them.
An elderly man ran at him with a cry of fury and a large earthen pot raised over his head menacingly.
Water accumulation can cause straw bale walls to mildew and eventually decompose, and earthen walls to deteriorate and collapse.
More importantly John Sadler is credited with inventing a method of transfer-printing on to earthenware tiles.
Several objects have been attributed to him and have been cited as the earliest known examples of English refined white earthenware, or creamware.
Traditionally, maiolica is earthenware with a lead-based glaze made opaque by tin oxide.
You know my sister Jane's son?" said a farmer's wife, who had stopped her trap at the cottage to pick up a lidded wisket in which some earthenware had been packed. Women of the Country
Take two pound of _Barbary Sugar_, Clarifie it with a pint of water, and the whites of two _Eggs_, then boyle it in a posnet to the height of _Manus Christi_, then put it into an earthen Pipkin and therewith the things that you will Candy, as _Cinamon, Ginger, Nutmegs, A Book of Fruits and Flowers
The cavernous space pays homage to Moorish decor with its elaborately motifed terracotta plasterwork, ceramic tiling and large earthenware pots.
What is more worthy of note is the credulity with which he swallows the fabulous inventions of the "monkish chroniclers" when set before him in English earthenware. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 19, May, 1859
They show has interplay of earthen tones in dark and light shades, creating a stunning effect.
The Nicaraguan tradition of producing utilitarian and decorative ceramics and earthenware continues.
The rich clay soil provides an ideal medium for the red terracotta earthenware pots and water containers that were the mainstay of this economy.
The half-dozen snails were attractively presented in a beige earthenware dish and had been cooked in a herby, garlic butter.
Having prepared a number of earthenware jars, and a quantity of dry moss (different species of hypnum and sphagnum), he placed a layer of moss and of pears alternately, till the jar was filled; a plug was then inserted, and sealed around with melted rosin. Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs
You tread loathingly an indescribable earthen floor, and your eye, on entering the apartment, is arrested by a nameless production of the fictile art, certainly not of _Etruscan_ form, which is invariably placed on the _bolster_ of the truck-bed destined presently for your devoted head. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 345, July, 1844
Earthenware jars containing it were to be flung by hand or arbalist, and darts and arrows were wrapped with tow soaked in the substance. A History of Sea Power
A very colorful barbotine pitcher from the earthenware majolica factory of Monaco with floral motifs and a snake handle.
Then being between hot and cold, take it into molds of deep hoops, bind them about with packthred, and being cold, take them out and put them into souce drink made of boil'd oatmeal ground or beaten, and bran boil'd in fair water; being cold, strain it thorow a cullender into the tub or earthen pot, put salt into it, and close up the vessel close from the air. The accomplisht cook or, The art & mystery of cookery
Now, except for the summer months, there are tourists almost daily, more than 300 potters and the earthenware is all signed. My Heart Won't Let Me Stop . . .
The Japanese use the word yaki for porcelain, pottery and earthenware alike.
The wayside grocer met their temporal needs – clarified butter ladled from the earthenware pot, into Dwarki's brass lota, with a liberal supply of red kunkun. Love and Life Behind the Purdah
This "frier," whose shanty leaned against a tumble-down house, and was propped up by heavy joists, green with moss, made a display of boiled mussels lying in large earthenware bowls filled to the brim with clear water; of dishes of little yellow dabs stiffened by too thick a coating of paste; of squares of tripe simmering in a pan; and of grilled herrings, black and charred, and so hard that if you tapped them they sounded like wood. The Fat and the Thin
For we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of ourselves.
I was amazed; here was an earthen structure created by the ancient Cahokians that looked like a huge hill covered in bright green grass whose edges were virtually straight.
The current software program predicts how an earthen spillway will perform and evaluates its potential for failure.
The long-established Sitiwinangun earthenware pottery, locally known as gerabah, is dominated by the color maroon.
The word of the gospel is preached by men like ourselves, men of like passions and infirmities with others: We have this treasure in earthen vessels. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
Noise is the first consideration for a successful befana, noise of any kind, shrill, gruff, high, low -- any sort of noise; and the first purchase of everyone who comes must be a tin horn, a pipe, or one of those grotesque little figures of painted earthenware, representing some characteristic type of Ave Roma Immortalis, Vol. 1 Studies from the Chronicles of Rome
The refectory is a large room, with a long narrow table running all round it – a plain deal table, with wooden benches; before the place of each nun, an earthen bowl, an earthen cup with an apple in it, a wooden plate and a wooden spoon; at the top of the table a grinning skull, to remind them that even these indulgences they shall not long enjoy. Life in Mexico, During a Residence of Two Years in That Country
Darling du jour: the limbs sprung and swayed as if gravity luffed for a moment in the vicinity, and when they sagged again a patter of unripe olives struck the earthen deck. I was born in the boredom and the chowdah.
We have found time and time again that, when done right, earthen plasters and finishes are far superior to concrete and synthetic stuccos in many ways.
Marines on the south side of the city began packing up gear Thursday in preparation to withdraw and breaking down earthen berms and other security barriers.
Tomatoes, olive oil, aubergines, grapes, grilled fish and great earthenware jars of wine dark? well, wine, are all things that mimsy food writers have developed into a bit of a cult, but I'm not entirely sure that's good enough. The Mediterranean 'heritage' diet
Uncommon in the U.S., it can be used in mild climates to create thin earthen walls, but lacks the thermal mass or insulation desirable in other climates.
Gone are the garish colours and tones of his earlier works; enter a more neutral and earthen toned film in keeping with the stark landscapes and backdrops.
Pour strained oil into an earthenware, ovenproof pot large enough to hold rabbit and all liquid called for in recipe.
It is then put into an earthen pot, whose bottom is perforated with a number of holes; and this pot being placed upon another, the two vessels are luted together, either with a paste of meal and water, or cow-dung, and placed upon the fire. Perils and Captivity Comprising The sufferings of the Picard family after the shipwreck of the Medusa, in the year 1816; Narrative of the captivity of M. de Brisson, in the year 1785; Voyage of Madame Godin along the river of the Amazons, in the year 1770
It is much more extensive and impressive than any of the other English earthen structures, and indeed than the other early European ones too.
Village houses sit on the ground and have earthen floors.
Take an earthen pitcher or any suitable container which should be clean and washed properly.
There were medley-pictures contrived of photographs cut out and grouped together in novel and unexpected relations; and there were set about divers patterns and pretences in keramics, as the decoration of earthen pots and jars was called. The Coast of Bohemia
This is the excuse you needed to buy a beautiful earthenware tian made in the South of France.
The owner produces it in small quantities and he matures it in earthenware containers rather than in wooden barrels as most vineyards do today.
The resulting lye was then boiled into salt in earthen pots, using wood from the dense local forests as fuel. The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh: A Woman in World History
Put it on an earthen dish, cover it with a cloth and set it in a cold place, in the ice box in summer; let it remain until _cold_; an hour or more before making out the crust. The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887) The Whole Comprising a Comprehensive Cyclopedia of Information for the Home
It is then formed into cakes by the hands, and placed in earthen pans to be further exsiccated, when it is covered with the leaves of the poppy, tobacco, or some other plant. Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs
The squaw was then ordered to fetch an earthen vessel of strong water; for so they called the ardent spirits which were given them by the Europeans, and which was even then A Peep at the Pilgrims in Sixteen Hundred Thirty-Six
The ksar, a group of earthen buildings surrounded by high walls, is a traditional pre - Saharan habitat.
The motte was an earthen mound, conical in shape and the bailey was a level area around the motte, both of which would have had a wooden stockade surrounding.
This strange practice was not limited to eating cacao, but also included eating "barro" or "tierra," that is, clay or earth, usually in the form of "earthenware, as pots or pieces of lime walls. Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico
The earthenware which appears together with the ashes concluded initially is cauldron which the life uses.
From the humble earthen pot to fancy shapes in clay designed to appeal to the connoisseur… the fair seeks to impress from the word go.
The earthenware works are hand-built of pads of clay and the porcelains of neater rectangular slabs; all show the pressure marks of fingers.
Builders of straw bale, adobe, cob and other types of natural homes use earthen plasters for interior and exterior walls, usually applying the plaster in two or three layers.
During the late troubles, the treasures of the state, and even the furniture of the palace, had been alienated or embezzled; the royal banquet was served in pewter or earthenware; and such was the proud poverty of the times, that the absence of gold and jewels was supplied by the paltry artifices of glass and gilt-leather. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
For a truly beautiful vegetable stew, bake it in an earthenware tagine that allows each vegetable to retain its shape and colour, the whole dish coming together in a beautiful mosaic.
Throughout Italy, and at Rome, a decoction of fresh Lemons is extolled as a specific against intermittent fever; for which purpose a fresh unpeeled Lemon is cut into thin slices, and put into an earthenware jar with three breakfastcupfuls of cold water, and boiled down to one cupful, which is strained, the lemon being squeezed, and the decoction being given shortly before the access of fever is expected. Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure
Invariably clad in a garment that is an exact fit, neither too loose nor too tight, the grub, when the cold weather comes, closes the mouth of its earthenware jar with a lid of the same mixed compound, a paste of earth and stercoral cement. The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles
Bell experimented successfully with a number of glazes and created a wide variety of forms in earthenware and stoneware.
Products called earthenware, whiteware, low-temperature ceramics, and terra cotta are all fired in the range of 900-1100°C. 3. Temperature ranges and requirements
Butter an earthenware tian or any baking dish and pour the mixture into it.
It includes sections on script styles, calligraphy, objects with writing I particularly like the Earthenware bowl with Kufic inscription, and others; Islam in China and the Malay Peninsula includes an amazing example of Arabic calligraphy done in Chinese style, with a brush. Languagehat.com: ARABIC SCRIPT.
Tin-glazed earthenware was first manufactured in Delft, Holland, in the early seventeenth century.
In the hills above the city, the industrial elite of nearby Pittsburgh had built a private resort, including an artificial lake contained by a poorly designed and ill-maintained earthen dam.
The terms imitation porcelain and everyday china traditionally referred to all porcelainlike imitators of true porcelain, including various types of ironstone and earthenware. HOME COMFORTS
Blind Girl never knew that ugly shapes of delf and earthenware were on the board; that sorrow and faintheartedness were in the house; that The Cricket on the Hearth
The kitchen floor, as usual, had an unsecured look, but was clean swept, and on shelves stood rows of earthen and copper cooking-vessels and the yewen wood, brass-bound water-jars before mentioned. In the Heart of the Vosges And Other Sketches by a "Devious Traveller"
Water accumulation can cause straw bale walls to mildew and eventually decompose, and earthen walls to deteriorate and collapse.
For ceramic work, she uses earthen pots, ashtrays, glass and PVC material.
Heavy soils are needed to prevent seepage from earthen structures.
Wedgwood did not invent creamware or Queensware, but the changes which he made in the body and glaze about 1759 created a revolution in the potters' trade and made earthenware popular for daily table use.
Hope's hands trembled as she filled a shallow earthenware saucer with a thin layer of water. BEAUTIFUL DREAMER
Rice, that staple of Thai living, was served from large earthenware pots and we began.
In Korea, a well-insulated oversailing roof with two layers of timbers separated by an earthen blanket provided the essential sunshade.
A bung, made of glass, plastic, rubber, earthenware, silicone, or wood, is a barrel's stopper, analogous to the cork of a bottle.
It shows men drinking from porcelain cups without handles, and coffee being served from a metal or earthenware jug.
Take an earthen pitcher or any suitable container which should be clean and washed properly.
An earthenware jar of sourdough starter, which Marion has nurtured for over four years, has become an important part of the pleasure she takes in making yeast doughs; whether English muffins, pancakes or loaves of bread.
The second part of the article about Japanese ceramics is about Arita, Kakiemon, Fukugawa, Kutani, Satsuma, Banko Earthenware and Satsuma pottery.
They are made of earthenware, shaped like hearts or tarts or leaves, and they cost two pice each, and in each we shall pour oil and float a wick; then we shall set them all along the roof and at the windows and in rows on the steps and at the gate and over the gate, and we shall light them. Two Young English Girls in India
Peering over the railings, the Venkatramans jostled to catch a glimpse of the earthen lingam at the shadowy heart of the sanctuary.
Though God had here a splendid retinue of holy angles about his throne, who were ready to go on his errands, yet he passes them all by, and pitches on Ezekiel, a son of man, to be his messenger to the house of Israel; for we have this treasure in earthen vessels, and God's messages sent us by men like ourselves, whose terror shall not make us afraid nor their hand be heavy upon us. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
Until about 1865 the products of Trenton potteries consisted almost entirely of heavy yellow and white earthenware and white graniteware of general shape and quality.
The rich clay soil provides an ideal medium for the red terracotta earthenware pots and water containers that were the mainstay of this economy.
He is doomed to remain poor despite being the world's best if he ‘specializes’ in making earthen pots.
Just opposite to this vennel, there is another that leads north-west, from the chiefe street to the green, which is a pleasant plott of ground, enclosed round with an earthen wall, wherein they were wont to play football, but now at the Gowff and byasse-bowls. Essays of Travel
The clothing and bedding of plague victims are particularly dangerous, as are wooden buildings, earthen floors, rubbish heaps, and dunghills.
Slip-cast from vitrified earthenware, they have a smooth finish outside and a glossy, shiny glaze inside, and are dishwasher-safe. Times, Sunday Times
The motte was an earthen mound, conical in shape and the bailey was a level area around the motte, both of which would have had a wooden stockade surrounding.
In the ancestor of Olympic target archery, bowmen aimed at targets mounted on earthen butts at ranges of 100 to 140 yards.
The earthen plaster-covered adobe walls are thick enough to include built-in book-shelves, creating a small library alcove behind the kitchen.
Like motmots and todies, kingfishers often have brilliant plumage, are largely insectivorous, and nest in cavities that are often excavated in earthen banks.
He stood and began pouring from a tall earthenware flagon, filling tankards with ale.
They dug ponds and built earthen dams called johads to trap monsoon rains.
A village that has long made earthenware pots now sells them for pennies to tourists.
The 17th-century Italian maiolica-ware found at Jamestown is a red-body earthenware with scratched or incised designs -- a true sgraffito-ware. New Discoveries at Jamestown Site of the First Successful English Settlement in America
You should be using a white porcelain or glazed earthenware tea pot.
A small glazed earthenware jar formerly used by druggists for medicaments.
We need to remember that God puts the treasure of his gospel in earthen vessels.
Secondly, having regard to the great swelling and coldness of the limb, we must apply hot bricks round it, and sprinkle them with a decoction of nerval herbs in wine and vinegar, and wrap them in napkins; and to his feet, an earthenware bottle filled with the decoction, corked, and wrapped in cloths. The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)
He then disappeared, and presently entered with two earthen flagons, one filled with canary wine, the other with brandy.
I'm told that earthen fridges have been developed, using the millennia old ingenuity of the earthern pot'scooling process. Living without a refrigerator!
Although the bottom of the ‘hookah’ was earthen in the beginning, it turned into glass once glass-blowing became an innovative technique.
There he sat down to rest a while by a well, where the women were drawing water in earthen pitchers. Tales of the Punjab
Some of the plants were in the seedling stage, with their roots encased in soil contained in plastic bags, while the larger plants stood in earthen pots.
Even so, about 400 relics, including silverware, jade ware, copperware, ironware and earthenware, were found during excavation work.
Take a whole rand or jole, scale it, and put it in an earthen stew-pan, put to it some claret, or white-wine, some wine-vinegar, The accomplisht cook or, The art & mystery of cookery
She fell to the hard, earthen floor, tired and weak.
Maggie Jones's, with its refectory tables, hunting prints, baskets and earthenware pots, was an agreeable place. THE IMAGE OF LAURA
Escaping camel hawkers and un-digging my high heels from small avalanches of sand, I arrived at last at Pyramid Number Two -- the tomb of Khafre -- where a long narrow tunnel slanted into its earthen belly, lined with a metal ladder which served -- I understood, as I peered below -- as a staircase. Karin Badt: Christmas in Cairo: A 48 Hour Story
How long I sat there, on the earthen floor of the Council Chambers, starring blindly at Kinwell, I can not say.
The riotous colors and designs celebrate different fiestas ... white pompoms and streamers for the church, and for birthdays, big earthenware jars dressed in gaudy colors. The Colored Paper Affair
When we were nearly done planting, Michael went down to the root cellar and brought back a bucket and two earthenware crocks.
There was a _tinaja_, or earthenware jar, holding about twenty gallons of water, and a dipper made of a polished cocoanut shell. A Woman's Impression of the Philippines
Over the years, some of the most successful rituals at Rites of Spring have centered around such images: a wicker figure, the Maypole, a bifacial Goddess puppet, a gigantic multi-colored web, an earthen Great Mother protruding from the ground.
He brought us yoghourt in earthenware bowls -- extremely cool and good it was; and after we had done I saw him carry down a huge mess more of it to the house below us, where many of the stragglers we had brought along were quartered by Kagig's order. The Eye of Zeitoon
Even for those who do not have a wide compound around their house, plants can be grown in earthen pots.
The manciple was to provide all wine and mead, the keeping up the stock of earthenware cups, jugs, basins, and other vessels, together with the lamps and oil. The Coming of the Friars
The pandas will accommodate these requests by drawing outlines of temples in the sand, placing earthen lamps upon them and ceremoniously offering fruits and flowers while chanting the family's names.
Unlike tin-glazed earthenware, white salt-glazed stoneware was ideally suited to slip casting and press molding into intricate shapes, and plaster of Paris greatly facilitated these processes.
A small glazed earthenware jar formerly used by druggists for medicaments.
This decorative style then continued on other ceramic wares such as whiteware, cream-colored earthenware, or white graniteware.
~SAUCE MAYONNAISE~ -- Place in an earthen bowl a couple of fresh egg yolks and one-half teaspoonful of ground English mustard, half pinch of salt, one-half saltspoonful red pepper, and stir well for about three minutes without stopping, then pour in, one drop at a time, one and one-half cupfuls of best olive oil, and should it become too thick, add a little at a time some good vinegar, stirring constantly. Good Things to Eat as Suggested by Rufus A Collection of Practical Recipes for Preparing Meats, Game, Fowl, Fish, Puddings, Pastries, Etc.
Visitors to the exhibition can find many North American porcelain, stoneware and earthenware pieces, with influences drawn from a variety of sources, including nature, society, and history.
Then, using a flat blade on the lathe, the slip was scraped away, exposing the white earthenware body inlaid with the black checked pattern.
King Makareus' soldiers entered the earthen halls of the pass of Pindae in the crevasse of the great towers of stone.
The count had set up his manufactory on the site of an earlier factory where earthenware had been made for about two years.
Although the bottom of the ‘hookah’ was earthen in the beginning, it turned into glass once glass-blowing became an innovative technique.
One of the most important industries in viceregal Mexico was the production of tin-glazed earthenware, known as Talavera, which was made primarily in Puebla.
The couple have to collect the herbs themselves and brew the concoctions in earthen pots on low flame.
European species selects snail shells for its nest, wherein it builds its earthen cells, while other species nidificate under stones. Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses
I take the earthen pot from the cabinet and fill it with water.
According to material, methods of production, and finish, pottery can be classified in three categories - earthenware, stoneware, and porcelain.
The glazed earthenware floor tiles are an unusual brushed turquoise colour and the bathroom suite is white.
Every one taking an ostracon, that is, a sherd, a piece of earthenware, wrote upon it the citizen's he would have banished, and carried it to a certain part of the market-place surrounded with wooden rails. The Boys' and Girls' Plutarch; being parts of the "Lives" of Plutarch, edited for boys and girls
Directly on the shore westernlay the extensive earthen ramparts and low buildings of William Henry.
Thin layers of variegated slip gave pallid earthenware surfaces the illusion of solid stone.
Thus, he made a new fort of earthen banks with stone bastions, enclosing within its walls not only the soldier's barracks, but also at first the governmental residence and public offices; he also built several windmills and the first church which was used solely as such, as well as houses for the dominie and for the schout-fiscal. II. The Dutch Town under the First Three Directors. 1626-1647.
He asked if we would like to share his water, dispensed from a tall and unglazed earthenware vessel. SPIX'S MACAW: THE RACE TO SAVE THE WORLD'S RAREST BIRD
This time, though, we decided that instead of hiking down from the parking lot we would hike up and try our luck at finding everyone's third motmot species of the trip, the more retiring Before reaching the park proper, however, we stopped along the entrance road to see what birds we might find in the area around the small lake created by a huge earthen dam. 10,000 Birds
Rene Descartes notes that there are people "whose cerebella are so troubled and clouded by the violent vapours of black bile, that they ... imagine that they have an earthenware head or are nothing but pumpkins or are made of glass. Warranted Christian Belief
The iconic faces are earthen masks softly manifesting a light from within, with distinct final strokes representing the enlivening action of uncreated grace.
_The only nourishing infusion of hay is that which is made from the best and sweetest hay, cut by a chaff-cutter into pieces about two inches long_, and put into an earthen vessel; over this, boiling water should be poured, and the whole allowed to stand for two hours, during which time it ought to be kept carefully closed. Cattle and Their Diseases Embracing Their History and Breeds, Crossing and Breeding, And Feeding and Management; With the Diseases to which They are Subject, And The Remedies Best Adapted to their Cure
She was invited to sit on the mat spread on the earthen floor, in front of the bench.
Even so, about 400 relics, including silverware, jade ware, copperware, ironware and earthenware, were found during excavation work.
The plants were grown in earthen pots filled with soil supplemented with farmyard manure.
The production of earthenware in Japan goes back to the Neolithic Jomon period.
While the glass lamp rebukes the earthen for calling it cousin.
The monastic orders gladly accept this heavy peasant earthenware, which is easily fashioned into a Capuchin or an Ursuline. Les Miserables
They include English slipware cups, stoneware mugs, German stoneware chamber pots, and locally produced earthenware related to preparing and cooking meals and personal hygiene.
In each room were a stone altar and earthen pots and bowls, and other things needed for the spells.
Locally made earthenware is decorated much as it was before the Spanish conquest.
The waiter laid out lovely, Japanese earthenware bowls, then brought our dishes and the rice in separate bowls.
As the first movie was concluding The Maiden went to the Kitchen to pour the well-mulled hot spiced cider into deep earthen mugs, filling them full and placing a cinnamon stick in each to use as a stir.
The cheapest lot going under the hammer is an earthenware jardinière made in Staffordshire, which is expected to fetch up to £60.
Another option is an earthen chiminea, which is great for small outdoor fires.
Tin-glazed earthenware, or faience, was introduced in the early sixteenth century in imitation of Chinese porcelain to France, Germany and the Netherlands, and by mid-century it had arrived in England.
Argil is of great utility, as forming the basis of many manufactures, such as brick, porcelain, and earthenware.
For thousands of years the pickled cabbages - a side dish eaten with most Korean meals - have been fermented in earthenware jars.
The owner produces it in small quantities and he matures it in earthenware containers rather than in wooden barrels as most vineyards do today.
He did not understand this galoche having been the sign of a hosier, nor the purport of the earthenware cask -- a common cider-keg -- and, to be candid, the St. Peter was lamentable with his drunkard's physiognomy. Bouvard and Pécuchet A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life
If you installed a genuine Heritage Belmonte Close Coupled WC and Landscape Cistern (£98), for example, would you stick it all over with sucker-ended toy arrows, like the fretful porpentine, just because the glazed earthenware surface is such a welcome host? Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
I thought it would be good for the panade, which is based on a Paula Wolfert recipe from some years back- I forget which book, which called for a "deep earthenware casserole. Soup of the Evening
Rain soon began its signature dance on the wooden shingle roof as she lifted a wooden floor panel, revealing a shallow earthen chamber containing potatoes.
In the earthenware jar where Iris and I hid our love letters, I discovered a strange twisted strip of papyrus on which was written a series of letters.
When we were nearly done planting, Michael went down to the root cellar and brought back a bucket and two earthenware crocks.

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