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Example sentences for "potter"

Lexicographically close words:
potsherd; potsherds; pottage; potte; potted; pottered; potteries; pottering; potters; pottery
  1. Moreover, Potter and Thomas were not starting for the pantry, but were standing, the one behind her mother, the other behind her father, quietly listening.

  2. At bed-time the previous evening Potter had telephoned that Madam would pay a morning visit to the nursery.

  3. To hold it, to shake it about and potter in the strange liquid with a spoon, would be some compensation for having to drink it.

  4. Then once more Potter swung wide the double doors.

  5. And now she thought how old Potter was; how thin and stooped.

  6. When I was at Johnnie Blake's that once, just Potter went, and Rosa, and Cook.

  7. Old Potter was, of course, the pretend-butler.

  8. Every man has his weakness, and the weakness of Mr. Potter is to always occupy the first seat on the third bench above the Gangway.

  9. Plain duty of the Liberals, the; 257-8 Potter and Mr. Chamberlain, T.

  10. Discern the moulding hand of the potter commanding the clay, from his merely beating foot, as it turns the wheel.

  11. About the time (1843) of the ao-Kutani revival, a potter called lida Hachiroemon introduced a style of decoration which subsequently came to be regarded as typical of all Kaga procelains.

  12. Just at that time there flourished in the Western capital a potter of remarkable ability, called Nomura Seisuke.

  13. The potter and his wife, bundled up in heavy cloaks, were calling out for the cardinal's blessing.

  14. Daoud wondered whether the potter and his wife felt they had an unlucky spot to offer their wares.

  15. The potter had taken an axe with him, thinking that the bones would be so great and strong as to require its use in breaking them.

  16. When he struck the first blow a voice came out of the fish, like that of some one in pain, at which the potter was greatly surprised.

  17. A large fire was soon got ready, and tea and soup given the man, and great was the joy of the potter and his wife when they saw him reviving.

  18. The first thing he did was to send for the potter and his wife and grant them some land and money.

  19. Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honor, and another unto dishonor?

  20. If the potter has power over the lump of clay which he holds in his hand--a fact which none would think of disputing--how much more has the Creator of all things power over the creatures which His hand has formed!

  21. It was the same cabin in which he himself had enjoyed some hours of sleep after his long spell in the water, and Potter was lying stretched at full length upon the bunk that he had previously occupied.

  22. The tragic deaths of those two men, Potter and Purchas, were quite thrilling enough to upset the nerves of any ordinary girl; but when it comes to being bombarded by meteors, I would really very much rather be excused.

  23. Upon being called by Leslie, the mate had looked in upon Potter for a moment on his way up on deck, but had failed to discover any improvement in his condition.

  24. By eight bells in the afternoon watch there was no longer room for doubt that Potter was really dead; and this being the case, Purchas very wisely decided to bury the body at once, and get rid of it.

  25. With some difficulty they got Potter below and into the mate's cabin, where they laid him in the bunk and, making him as comfortable as they could, left him to recover his scattered faculties.

  26. After the upper part of the bowl has been thus completed the potter sits on her feet and haunches, with her knees thrust forward from her.

  27. Each potter then takes a vessel at a time, places it red hot on its supporting base on the earth before her, and immediately proceeds, with much care and labor, to glaze the rim and inside of the bowl.

  28. The potter has learned the art of catering to the trade.

  29. The balls of the crudely mixed material are put into a small, wooden trough, are slightly moistened, and then thoroughly worked with a wooden pestle, the potter crouching on her haunches or resting on her knees during the labors.

  30. Magor crashed down on the tail of the first seaplane and Potter filled it with lead from his machine-gun.

  31. There was the deepest sorrow in the mess when Ensign Sturtevant and Ensign Potter were shot down.

  32. At the same time the tow was shortened and Magor and Potter and the two ratings were transferred.

  33. Another sister was the wife of William Potter, a member of Congress of some note from that State and son of General Potter of the Revolution.

  34. She alludes, in the same letter, to painted tiles, and says she was expecting a master potter from Seville to place the tiles in their proper places.

  35. Before the potter removes the clay from the trough, he must call the city supervisor or veedor to look into the quality and mixing of the mass.

  36. Another Sevillian potter of exceptional merit was Cristobal de Augusta, who worked in the latter half of the sixteenth century, and left his name upon the azulejo dadoes of the Halls of Charles the Fifth in the Alcazar.

  37. The general title of the Spanish potter was ollero, a comprehensive term which reaches from the most ambitious azulejero to the maker of the meanest kitchen-ware.

  38. The cords of Potter gave place to vertical rods with small pegs which pressed upward or downward as desired.

  39. Let us, however, do our best to repair the neglect and record that, in the history of the steam engine, Humphrey Potter must ever be honorably associated with famous men as the only famous boy inventor.

  40. Said the captain: "As the potter lives by making pots, so we live by robbing the poor.

  41. Mr. Potter had left the Dakota field after only a year's trial, regarding it as a very difficult one, as compared with the one he had left in the Indian Territory South.

  42. Potter was up first and managed to get a single.

  43. The Resolutes were to bat last, and Seth Potter went up to bat first for the Stars.

  44. Lantry got a single which sent Potter to third, but the next two men struck out and with two men left on bases the Silver Stars had to take the field again with only a goose egg to their credit.

  45. Well, he's pretty good, but Ford Lantry or Seth Potter on our team can bat all around him.

  46. Did not Sir Humphrey lead us to infer that Mr. Potter once proposed for Mrs. Chetwynd?

  47. Mrs. Blake, I was just reminding Mr. Potter of an old fable you may perhaps have heard.

  48. The potter wants the Zen connoisseur to understand what he has done: to see the clay, to feel and admire its texture, to appreciate the reasons for the type and color of the glaze.

  49. Once again, this is a deliberate aesthetic device, reminding one that the potter is an individual artist, not a faceless craftsman.

  50. The instrument for this second revolution (according to tradition) was the priest Dogen, founder of Japanese Soto Zen, who on one of his trips to China was accompanied by a Japanese potter known as Toshiro.

  51. When the potter keeps no secrets, one enters into the exhilaration of his moment of creation.

  52. Hurd, with Mrs. Jenova Martin president, and a College Equal Suffrage League at the State University by Professors Frances Squire Potter and Mary Gray Peck, with Miss Elsa Ueland president.

  53. The college women were represented by Professor Frances Squire Potter of the University of Minnesota and the committee reported favorably.

  54. God forms man out of the dust of the ground, as a potter molds his clay, and breathes into him the breath of life.

  55. The most expert modern potter at East Mesa is Nampéo, a Tanoan woman who is a thorough artist in her line of work.

  56. Each potter seems to have decorated her ware without regard to the work of her contemporaries, using simple designs but combining them in original ways.

  57. As, however, the art of the potter degenerated, as it has in later times, the patterns became more alike, so that modern Tusayan decorated earthenware has little variety in ornamentation and no originality in design.

  58. The inside of these jars is smooth, but never polished, and in one instance the potter used the corrugations of the coil as an ornamental motive.

  59. With these few lines the potter no doubt intended to depict one of those many legends, still current, of the cultus hero and heroine of her particular family or priesthood.

  60. In the Potter machine, the stack was put on the end opposite the gas intake, with a fan to pull the flame all the way through.

  61. Potter came to New York from the Potter-Parlin Spice Mills in Cincinnati.

  62. After the centennial year and previous to 1900, the following names were added: Potter & Parlin; James Heekin & Co.

  63. In 1910, this was consolidated with the Potter Coffee Co.


  64. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "potter" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.