A large earthenware jar filled with gunpowder, stones, and bits of iron is buried in the earth.
He stopped at the doors of the rich, and if they did not give him what he asked for, he befouled their garments with mud or a mixture of red ochre and water, which he carried in an earthenware pot.
From this period, then, can be assumed the adoption and first use of earthenware pipes for house drains and public sewers.
Plundered and fleeced by landlords, the surviving victims reel homeward staggering under their burden of putrid food wrapped up in dirty clothes, or packed in heavy baskets or earthenware jars.
In the first stages of water distribution, water was carried on the backs of water carriers in earthenware jars constructed especially for the purpose, or in goat or other animal skins properly tanned and sewed to hold water.
Two cocoanuts (which had belonged to Pécuchet since his younger days) flanked on the chimney-piece an earthenware cask on which a peasant sat astride.
If they did not know what conclusion to arrive at as to earthenware and as to Celticism, it was because they were ignorant of history, especially the history of France.
The German ofen, or, as we would term it, stove, is an earthenware vessel in a room.
Thenceforth all the heat within and in the earthenware walls radiates into the apartment, and keeps it warm for eight or nine hours.
In the past copper tubes were used for this purpose, but owing to the fact that traces of copper were found to be injurious to rubber, some works instal tubes of glazed earthenware for the distillation.
Coagulation may be undertaken without any special arrangement of tanks, and is usually effected in the ordinary "Shanghai" glazed earthenware jars containing about 45 gallons.
The mixing of solutions should be done in one of the glazed earthenware jars commonly in use.
These generally consist of brown earthenware with an interior glass finish.
As they scoop the water up in the gourd-shaped earthenware jars bound to their rims, they shriek and groan on their giant wooden axles.
The jars in which the women of the town draw water from the river, instead of being of copper or earthenware as elsewhere, are here made of pitched wicker-work.
No charge is made for the use of the china basin which has not been washed since the last man used it, or for the loan of the leaden or earthenware spoons, or a couple of chopsticks.
After having received the blessing, the drug is taken to the house of the patient and there boiled in an earthenware pot.
A more civilised form of stove is an earthenware furnace.
A pole slung over his shoulder, bears at one end a small earthenware stove with a supply of charcoal and water.
When she measured the juice into the saucepan she also measured an equal amount of sugar into an earthenware dish.
Placing these in an earthenware bowl, Adelaide sprinkled a tablespoon of salt over them, covered them, stood them aside for twenty-four hours and then drained them.
The sugar had been standing in an earthenware dish at the back of the range, to heat through, but not brown.
The tiny cucumbers were washed and wiped carefully and placed in a largeearthenware bowl.
The juice she put over the fire to boil rapidly for twenty minutes, and stood the sugar in an earthenware dish at the back of the range to heat through, but not brown.
Place clean, fresh eggs in a cleanearthenware crock or jar and pour the clear limewater into the vessel until the eggs are covered.
To each pound of berries Adelaide added one-third of a pound of sugar, setting it in an earthenware dish at the back of the range to heat through, but not brown.
The saucepan containing the juice she placed over the fire that the juice might boil rapidly for twenty minutes, and the sugar was put in an earthenware dish and stood at the back of the range to heat through, but not brown.
All these Adelaide placed in a large earthenware bowl and sprinkled a tablespoon of salt over the vegetables, letting them stand over night, then draining them.
Next morning she measured the juice and an equal amount of sugar, which she placed in an earthenware dish at the back of the range, to heat through but not brown.
One-half their weight of sugar Adelaide placed in anearthenware dish at the back of the range to warm through, but not brown.
The plums and the water she placed in the saucepan over the fire and let them come slowly to the boiling point, while the sugar was heating at the back of the range in an earthenware dish.
This she placed in an earthenware dish at the back of the range, or in the oven with the door open, to let it heat through gradually but not to brown.
These packets are slowly cooked with very little water inearthenware cooking-pots.
In a larger house, a hundred yards away, an earthenware lamp, with cotton wick dipping in raw castor oil, sheds fitful gleams on a dying woman.
All drink water out of an earthenware pitcher of peculiar shape, which is the centrepiece of the table.
In the case of a dead child it was their custom to place the body in a large earthenware urn which they filled with earth and ochre, covering up the vessel with burnt clay.
The light streamed through the doorway, over an uneven floor, falling upon piles of grain and fodder, and earthenware and household property, occupying the centre of the chamber.
Thousands of parcels of earthenware were shipped to the American colonies from Bideford and Barnstaple during the 17th century.
When earthenware shipments are recorded in terms of parcels, we are again left in doubt, since the sizes of the parcels are not indicated.
However, in an attempt to prove that earthenware was produced locally, he assumed, perhaps because of their crudeness, that the utensils were made at Jamestown.
The export of earthenwarefrom North Devon was not solely to America.
That there was a large and important commerce in North Devon earthenware to account for many of the relationships between Bideford, Barnstaple, and the colonies seems to have remained unnoticed.
When sickness prevails in a village, votive offerings are brought to the MukAcm, and I have often seen a little earthenware lamp brought down by some poor wife or mother, whose husband or child was sick, to be burnt before the shrine.
She was mixing some salad in a big earthenware bowl adorned with green and brown stripes.
In a moment he returned with a huge earthenware plate of soup in which a couple of large pieces of fat meat bobbed lazily as he set the dish on the table.
Dickie thought of the kitchen at home, the lamp that smoked, the dirty table, the fender full of ashes and dirty paper, the dry bread that tasted of mice, and the water out of the broken earthenware cup.
The box was wrapped in a silk scarf, and the whole packet put into a big earthenware jar with a lid, and the join of lid and jar was smeared with resin and covered with clay.
For casseroles and bean pots, earthenware is a favorite material, the heavy glass gives equally good results.
At that time everybody could not afford to have earthenware plates, as they have now.
Put a whole year's milk into a largeearthenware pan, all the sweetmeats into a large jar, all the soup into a great tureen, and see what a huge heap you will have collected together.
You are afraid of its dribbling away in exercise as those might from an earthenware jar, and by its disappearance leaving the body, which is supposed to have no internal reserves, empty and dry.
Nay, the very villages have their specialities: one deifies the right shoulder, and another across the river the left; one a half skull, another an earthenware bowl or platter.
In 1880 was discovered between the Quirinal and Viminal hills a little earthenware pot of a curious shape, being as it were, three vessels radiating from a centre, each with a separate mouth at the top.
Certain enamels, used for glazingearthenware or for coating metal cooking pots, contain lead, which they yield to the food prepared in them.
The whole then looks like a thin earthenware box with the lug of the electrode projecting from one end.
Manufactories of porcelain, glass and earthenware are numerous.
Manufactures are almost confined to the spinning of hemp, and the making of coarse cloth, porcelain, earthenware and cutlery.
Put the leaves in a big earthenware dish or pan, fill it with rain-water, and stand it in a warm and sunny place--the purpose of this being to soak off the green pulpy part.
Fill an earthenware dish with this solution, lay the leaves in it, and cover tightly.
It is now a skeleton and must be bleached according to the following directions:--Pour into a large earthenware jar a pint of water on half a pound of chloride of lime.
A small round yellow earthenware pan is excellent for the thrushes and blackbirds, but it is as well to provide a smaller one, say an ordinary shallow pie-dish, for the robins and little birds.
These display the interesting phenomenon of pots of earthenware built into them, which not merely expedited the progress of the work, but allowed of its being more easily repaired than was possible in any other mode of construction.
There is also said to have been a manufactory of amphorae and other earthenware at this spot, many of the fragments found here being the refuse of a great manufactory.
You will have to recline on couches made only by Archias, and sup mainly on vegetables off earthenware plates,’ said Titus laughing, and quoting Horace.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "earthenware" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: appliance; earthenware; fixture; glassware; hardware; pottery; silverware; stoneware; tableware
