Hopping on one foot over the line into number one, and still keeping one foot raised, he makes a hop-kick with the other and sends the potsherd out of the number to that in the right or left section, as may be decided on in advance.
When a player pitches the potsherd into the wrong division or on a line, he is out.
The material on ONE only of the three hundred pieces of potsherd had melted, and it was taken out to cool.
The piece of potsherdwas covered with white enamel, described by Palissy as "singularly beautiful!
These agree so closely with the pictograph and with the representation on the potsherd from Sikyatki, that I regard it well-nigh proven that they represent the same personage.
And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself withal; and he sat down among the ashes.
Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth.
Burning lips and a wicked heart are like a potsherd covered with silver dross.
He that teacheth a fool, is like one that glueth a potsherd together.
And he took a potsherdand scraped the corrupt matter, sitting on a dunghill.
What a height it is from the lofty roofs, from which a potsherd tumbles on your brains.
Or are you following the crows, with potsherd and mud, careless whither your steps lead you, and living only for the moment?
Slowly and carefully we unrolled the linen, exposing to view a very large but undoubtedly ancient potsherd of a dirty yellow colour!
To solve my doubts I took up the potsherd and began to read the close uncial Greek writing on it; and very good Greek of the period it is, considering that it came from the pen of an Egyptian born.
I believe that potsherd to be perfectly genuine, and that, wonderful as it may seem, it has come down in your family from since the fourth century before Christ.
Unfortunately, however, with the exception of its termination (evi) the date of their settlement there is for ever lost, for just where it had been placed a piece of the potsherd is broken away.
Thus adjured, Leo told her the wonderful story of the casket and of the potsherd that, written on by his ancestress, the Egyptian Amenartas, had been the means of guiding us to her.
This potsherd had in my judgment, once been a part of an ordinary amphora of medium size.
The strange legend that you will find inscribed by your remote ancestress upon the potsherd was communicated to me by my father on his deathbed, and took a strong hold in my imagination.
It will be observed that Ayesha's account of the death of Kallikrates differs materially from that written on the potsherd by Amenartas.
Who would have believed that the writing on the potsherd was not only true, but that we should live to verify its truth, and that we two seekers should find her who was sought, patiently awaiting our coming in the tombs of Kôr?
To complete the list, a potsherd was found with the Double Axe moulded upon it, an indication, perhaps, that some who claimed kin with the masters of Crete paid their devotions at this unpretentious shrine.
The Museum collection contains no ostraka of historic importance, but the potsherd inscribed by one Teos (No.
The name of the person they most wished to get rid of was written on a potsherd (ostrakon), and if six thousand votes were recorded against any one name, that man had to go into banishment for ten years.
At times they perform the following ceremony with these bones: they take a potsherd with live coals, throw sweet-smelling grass upon it, and fumigate the bones with the smoke.
Naked and shorn, tormented with hunger and thirst, and deprived of sight, shall the man who gives false evidence go with a potsherd to beg food at the door of his enemy.
A rude picture of an ostrich painted on a potsherd was found at Gezer, as well as some painted fragments of ostrich-egg shell.
You had no faith" said she "if you had believed, the animals would not have turned into the clod and the potsherd and the charcoal.
On the evening of the day on which the body has been buried, they kindle a fire on a potsherd and heap dry leaves on it.
A man, holding the smouldering fire in the potsherd with one hand and a bundle of straw with the other, leads the way.
The Potsherd graves are so called from the use of potsherds to cover the corpse.
Ameimar says, "The superior of the witches told me that when a person meets any of them he should mutter thus, 'May a potsherd of boiling dung be stuffed into your mouths, you ugly witches!
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "potsherd" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
