| 单词 | clay |
| 例句 | It was the silence of hard dry clay and old juniper wood bleached white. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z You can draw a picture, build using sticks or clay. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z Tree-ear had learned the answer to their mystery: Min used thin slabs of clay to build the small interior boxes first, then the larger one to fit around them. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z This day Tree-ear was able to watch the clay rise and fall four times before Min was satisfied. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z Hanako herself had problems just making a diorama for class, a tiny world with a few clay figures. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z There were no sticks of incense now before this pair, nor had there been for many moons, and their paper clothes were tattered and showed their clay bodies through the rents. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z “As white as clay or death,” was responded. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z Then with a planing tool, he carefully smoothed away the surface of the design so that the colored clay was completely level with the body of the vase itself. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z Silently, the clay figures floated from his hand, drifted in the air, then settled to the ground at opposite ends of the courtyard. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z Tree-ear carted another load of clay for Min that afternoon, then returned to the bridge where Crane-man had stewed some wild mushrooms for their supper. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z “It’s just, you know. A hunk of clay. Some school project.” Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Children danced about in the lane in front of the clay huts. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z In the nine days of work, Tree-ear had not once touched clay. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z He stopped, peering down at scattered particles of dried clay on the moonlit floor. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z She crushed the clay between two rocks and made a thick paste with water to smear over the outside of the boat. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z By December he had returned to his parents’ house in Alipore, carried through the courtyard and up the red clay stairs like a corpse, hoisted on the shoulders of his four brothers. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z He looked like a figure out of a Tarzan movie; he was dressed in animal bones, shells, bladders and skins, and his fat body and deadpan face were caked with red clay. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Blanca saw her mother serve the food on plates of handcrafted clay, such as was used for making bricks, since all the dishes had perished in the quake. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Before it could get very far, I crossed my arms again and fired another specium ray, nailing the retreating head like a clay pigeon. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Tree-ear took up a handful of clay from the corner of the bed and kneaded it. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z “Not with hair and wax. Maybe blood and clay ...” “Order.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z He climbed a ladder that was leaning against the overhang and settled himself onto the roof with a bucket of clay and a trowel he used to spread it. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z Of course when the clay dried, it pulled away from the tree, and all the smoke poured back in on me. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Grandmother sat in the shade outside her hut and puffed on a clay pipe. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z An invented past can never be used; it cracks and crumbles under the pressures of life like clay in a season of drought. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z I found Kazi’s favorite big clay bowl he always used for chopped vegetables or mixing dough. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Because only small amounts were needed, Tree-ear was working with the red and white clay in bowls instead of in the pits. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z Inside, the home is sunny, cozy, and absolutely immaculate, lined with framed photos and green potted plants, clay pots, and odd, metallic sculptures. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Her face looked like it was made of clay. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z This is in a small town in Jiangsu province, outside Shanghai, a place of dusty shops and rutted roads, of timber and clay — a place where every noise has a known source. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z He had forgotten to loosen the nets at dusk and sweep the base lines, making sure they were securely tacked into the clay. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “A face plain as a clay saucer and no gold threads woven in her sari,” Tanu whispered. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z Solovet nodded approvingly and gave him a small clay pot of ointment to dab on his face. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z At night I cry, feeling ashamed, as though his hands have left prints on my skin, like marks in drying clay. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The room felt damp, the clay breaking into small muddy chunks under our feet. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z He cooked; he savored; he even named me Tandoori, after West Indian cooking that is prepared in a clay stove called a tandoor. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z The next day she smushed the clay into a big glob and left it on the drafting table. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Benjamin Sweetwine: The Sequel has skin the color and texture of gray earthenware clay. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z Soil, clay, and stone began flowing together and piling up until Hugo was reborn. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z John headed back to the clay but stopped halfway. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z The smoke in me felt like a blob of clay. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z There in the rock is the curved back of a woman identical to the one on the clay model. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z “That’s what I can do—take the life of one thing and give it to another, either clay like this or something that used to be alive but ain’t anymore.” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z You grab the lump of clay and try to figure out where to start. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z Their predecessors in this included the Sumerians, Babylonians, Assyrians, and Hittites, who all kept significant archives of clay cuneiform tablets in their palaces and temple precincts. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z More monsters kept appearing - karpoi grain spirits swirling out of the grass, gryphons diving from the sky, lumpy clay humanoids that made Jason think of evil Play-Doh men. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z His insides turned at once to dry clay. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Imagine, if you will, the catastrophic effects of burping while digesting a mouthful of clay. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z He studies the clay model beside the large rock, then closes his eyes and combs the surface with his fingers. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z Too late I realized I’d jumped to the inn’s roof—no wood shingles here, but clay tiles slippery with rain. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z My arms and hands looked like they were made of clay. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z All of ’em made of orangish-brown clay and hung on a warped wall so you could get a good view as you sat in traffic waiting to get back to America. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z “This is terrible,” he says, his eyes widening inside the clay mask of his face. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z The clay dried and cracked; it’s a crumbling gray square. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z There is a Peruvian deity, painted on a clay pot dating from around A.D. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He was hardly a father except in the vocational sense, as a potter with clay to be molded. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Nor did he see his granddaughter’s worn sweaters or his daughter’s antiquated clothing or her hands that had been ruined by household chores and clay. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “I say to you carving is not for cowards. Cowards stick to clay, yes?” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z She sat against the clay wall as far from the entrance as she could manage and watched the dense sheets of water sweep past. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z "They say that you can create a person from clay with your arcana, like magic." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z El-ahrairah combed himself until he had enough fur to cover a clay rabbit, which he pushed into the water. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z She was as still as a clay figure. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z It was dim enough at best, and he had to feel anxiously into the shadows to be sure he had not missed some morsel of clay. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z Years of wind and no rain had finally stripped the valley down to dark gray clay, where only the bluish salt bush could grow. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z He shoves a ball of clay right in the middle of the face you’ve made. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z But there was nothing, nothing; it was a stroll through another store, and his currency strange and unusable there, and his passion cold, even when he touched the wood and plaster and clay. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z The teacher drops a lump of wet, sticky clay on the bench in front of you. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z And he was both Hershey’s brown and clay red and too good-looking to be my cousin. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z But my grandmother explained that no, this was a new kind of modeling clay that was easy to work with. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z In art class, his favorite hour of the week, he carves his name with paper clips into the bottoms of clay cups and bowls. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z There were plants like green rubber roses in clay pots, but they weren’t rubber. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z He unearthed bones and arrowheads and beautiful clay pots; he tossed out lovely silver goblets and mammoth gold coins, and stones that sparkled, full of stars. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Harriet saw a little old woman, rocking her body back and forth, sitting on her heels, in front of the fire, sucking on a clay pipe as she grieved about her boys. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Twice, three times, four—and the fifth time with the white clay, something happened. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z Ben grinned and tipped his clay cup, pouring the last drizzle of beer out onto the earth. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The clays have a complex active surface, given to absorbing and releasing gases and to catalyzing chemical reactions. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Oriana stands there, a wooden tray in her hands with a steaming pot and three clay cups atop it. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z I was the one who answered the knock, opening the front door just a crack before I saw Ms. Banks, Faith and Mrs. Bernoffski, with a big clay dish, on the other side. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z The police handcuffed the skinny men with swollen faces; they pushed and kicked them up the crumbling clay sides of the arroyo. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z To my other side stood rows of snow-burdened cypress trees peppered among flat-topped clay houses—no more than mud shacks in most cases—separated by narrow alleys. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Our hands are earth, our bodies clay and our eyes pools of rain. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Aru is the rune for clay, and it makes the two pieces of clay cling to each other, solving your problem. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Before Mom, Dad and Ellis get up the next morning, I’m in the garage rolling out self-drying clay with a coffee can and cutting it into rounded tiles. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z Once, a younger cousin who had tried to imitate him had fallen down the red clay staircase in Ashoke’s house and broken an arm. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Clustered at the mouth of the cave were clay pots that probably contained the muteyo. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z A slighdy younger Old Babylonian clay tablet, dating from 2000-1700 bc, gives basic details on how to learn and time a four-stringed fretted lute, including instructions for the notes to play. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z If she slept more she might be able to contain herself better, she thought; she imagined rest and sleep to be like the clay flood walls villagers built in China. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Min would squeeze handfuls of the purified clay, or rub it between his fingers. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z The toll collector had a couple of knickknacks littered across the surface: a unicorn with its wings outstretched and a tiny clay bear. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z The whitewash was only partially completed, and the kiva murals were veiled under the white clay wash, not yet repainted for the winter ceremonies. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z The santero leads the goat over the offerings and quickly pierces its neck with a butcher knife, directing the stream of blood onto the clay eggs. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z The clay streaks the word like dried blood. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z He wore an orange tank top, cutoffs, sandals, and a leather necklace with five different-colored clay beads. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z In Langston Hughes’ words I can smell that earthy clay in the front yard. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z As Tree-ear swept the yard or brought clay to and from the draining site, he tried to catch what glimpses he could. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z It changed owners a few years ago and now sells all kinds of arty things: pots, plates, clay animals. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z With a stick he pushed a clay ball from the embers. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z After they removed the coffin to the street, the santeros broke a clay urn behind Felicia’s old De Soto, the funeral car, and sprinkled it with cold water to refresh her for the final journey. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Tendai put his ear to the clay wall to pick up sounds from outside. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z The Paqo was studying the inside of a large clay jar. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z You gouge away the big chunk that’s not supposed to be there and then dig some clay out of the very middle of the face. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z The chiefs blush was hidden by the white and red clay Into his uncertain silence the tribe spilled their murmur once more. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z As she passed the clay statues, she thought she could see figures of the goldfish man, the buffalo boy, the king, and Da-A-Fu silently watching her. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z After one last throw he sat down and stared at the clay for a moment. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z There’s grit under your fingernails and your hands are sticky from the clay, but it doesn’t matter. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z Candles in clay pots throw circles of flickering light across the clean tiles. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Behind him he heard Juana patting the cakes before she put them down on the clay cooking sheet. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z “You are sure you want to forsake the warm, moist breath of clay for the cold, unforgiving eternity of stone.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z Frank was holding something Percy hadn’t noticed before—two small clay flasks with cork stoppers, like potions, one in each hand. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Min was stirring the clay in the drainage bed. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z There was the saliva that formed in my mouth whenever I smelt clay dust potted with fresh rain. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Later, after he sets up Noah with canvases and paint—Noah couldn’t resist when Guillermo offered—Guillermo finds me in the yard, where I’ve started on the clay model for Mom’s sculpture. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z His wry smile did little to mar the perfect clay smoothness of his features. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z One is modeling, an additive process using soft materials such as plaster, clay, or wax. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z But your sculpture still needs a nose, so you grab some of the clay you set aside before and make a new one. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z I woke up to a cricket chirping near my ear, and when I sat up, a horde of them skipped away, like a handful of clay pellets hurled into the tall yellow grass. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z The buggy rolled between gullied slopes of red clay. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z They were used as stilts in the kiln, to support a vessel clear of the clay stand on which it was fired, so that the two would not fuse together. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z When her finger brushed the clay, a strange thought burst into Aru’s head. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z He picked up a fragment of fallen plaster and drew dusty white stripes across the backs of his hands, the way ceremonial dancers sometimes did, except they used white clay, and not old plaster. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z The moment the light of Indra fell upon the clay, the entire chamber began to quake. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z You start tearing big chunks of clay off until the size looks okay and then you tackle the overall shape. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z He shook his head and in a single motion of disgust scooped up the clay and slapped it back onto the wheel, whereupon it collapsed into an oafish lump again, as if ashamed. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z He slowed his digging rate, poking the soft clay gently until his fingers breached the tunnel wall. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z Behind them the road dropped down the gray shale hill to the clay flats of the valley. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z When I am at work making tejas and coated with the red clay and dust under the good warm sun, again I think of Papi. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z He’s completely covered in clay except for the streaks on his cheeks from crying and the hellfire green eyes that are drilling into me. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z When he tried to move, the inside of his head pounded; so he lay flat and spat out the gritty mountain clay. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z I knew he had to tell the story through, but I’d rather have been buried alive in the clay at his feet than hear the rest. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z Then, with ritual significance, he looked mournfully into the clay mug that sat in front of him and carefully turned it upside down on the bar. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Nico waded through the last group of Earthborn, slashing them into mounds of wet clay with his black Stygian sword. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Then she took the warm melted wax from the candle and covered the clay dolls with it so they took on the color of flesh. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z It was round and ruddy, a fat clay grapefruit. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The room was decorated with a number of unusual objects, of small items of antique statuary and clay pots. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z She thought it was from eating too much food; it was the season of golden peaches, apricots, and young com cooked with basil in clay casseroles. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The bald man behind the bar gathered up the coins and deftly poured wine into Skarpi’s wide clay cup. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z He could almost feel the clay under his hands, rising on the wheel—his own wheel!—into a shape that was grace itself. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z After bowing three times before the red altar decorated with gold and silver Chinese symbols of peace and happiness, they inserted the incense into a yellow clay bowl filled with rice. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z A return to clay and plaster followed, and ghostly casts of her acquaintances haunted corners of the house, or tumbled off closet shelves onto people’s heads. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z At noon I sneaked into the yard and walked among the aisles of damp, cleansmelling clay and came to a barrow full of wet bricks just taken from the machine that shaped them. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z There are all of these close-up shots of the potter's hands in the clay. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z But only if the bricks are made out of clay. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Tree-ear scowled to see the misshapen masses of clay in his cart, so different from the neat rectangles of the other workers. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z She struggled to lift her clay water jug on her shoulders. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z She fetched him water in a steel tumbler from the clay koojah. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Notched into a cut of red clay crowned with oaks the road appeared to stop short off, like a cut ribbon. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z The Celestial bronze cut through the base like it was wet clay. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z No one’s gaze lingered on the boy with dark-ringed eyes, or saw the clay man who peeked from his shirt pocket only to be pushed down again by the boy’s finger. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z In analyzing these spectra, O. B. Toon, J. B. Pollack and I found that certain features seem best accounted for by montmorillonite and other kinds of clay. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Mud flats near the banks, caking to dry clay, smelled of death. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z It felt like I could shape the story, work the words like clay and sculpt a tale for everyone to see. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z We dried them on the rock in the meadow, and later Bando made a clay oven and baked them in it. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z The inn was respectable though, two stories tall, with plaster walls and red clay tiles on the roof. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z She saw that William had cleared his, and she quickly ladled some more of the steaming broth into the rough clay vessel. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z Even raising his eyebrows was difficult, for his forehead was stiff with dried clay And he was so exhausted that he could hardly bear the thought of wheeling the now-heavy cart back to Min’s house. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z I drop my gaze, notice a fatal melanoma on his arm, see his life pass before my eyes, then realize with relief it’s a dot of clay. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z In every room, save Radar’s, their home was awash in black Santadom—plaster and plastic and marble and clay and wood and resin and cloth. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z He even took off the crude wrapping of clay and peered at the edges of the shard. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z He left the road and took a trail that cut directly to the cliffs, winding up the chalky gray hill where the mesa plateau ended in crumbling shale above the red clay flats. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z When we enter his home, Señor Santos and I both smell like red clay. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z The wind came up from the west, smelling cool like wet clay, Then he could see the rain. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z For the first time in days, Tree-ear grinned as he crushed the petal back into a fistful of clay. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z At first glance it seemed unprepossessing: just a small, flat, unpainted, circular disk of hard-baked clay, 6 1/2 inches in diameter. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Next you craft a chin and push the clay with your thumb to add a little dimple. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z Interwoven in the red strings were thousands and thousands of small clay figures, each no longer than her finger; like a spider, in the exact center, sat the Old Man of the Moon. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z Occasionally I have to help, but mostly I watch with detachment as they upend themselves in the mud, digging and weeding, clay stains on the knees of their pants. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Gurgi, meantime, had returned with a huge armload of straw from the chicken roost, and the companions gratefully began heaping it on the clay floor. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z She put the crushed maize into a clay pot with water to soak overnight. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “No, I’m not,” I said, looking back to the kid selling clay suns. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z She went for the broom and swept the clay up. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z “But the next one will be better,” he said, and began to moisten another piece of clay. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Ranofer wandered over and inspected it, just in case, and found the usual fresh wad of clay covering the latch, with the imprint of Gebu’s ring pressed into it. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z Days before, Tree-ear had mapped out the best places along the river for colored clay, and now he went directly to the first spot. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z Like the oblong mound of fresh clay of a newly made grave, the red coals revealed the bent outline of Mary’s body. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Depending on where they are, they eat sitting on red clay or cement or terrazzo floors, or at marble-topped tables too cold to rest their elbows on. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z After a while he became aware that he was straining to see the clay by the light of the fire. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z He was a small man, his long hair black as a crow’s wing, his skin the color of rich red clay. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z Usually her grandparents kept the store open on Thanksgiving and prepared tamales to sell alongside clay mugs of steaming atole. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Nhamo stuck her finger into the reserve clay and tasted it. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Within an hour they were far out of town on a red clay road. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z A second table, covered with books and papers and off-kilter clay pots—baked and painted, but not glazed—squeezed itself between the bed foot and the closet door. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z “His Sunshine Buddy, and I have no idea. Why do we have to use clay?” Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z We walked around back, past the marble patio and clay tennis court. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z It was a small, dirty white cylinder of clay. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z In those clays people sat up with a corpse through the final night before burial. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z In the evening she harvested small birds, which she gutted, wrapped in clay, and baked in coals. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Soft indentations in the snow stretched from the attic window over a small incline between four cracked red clay chimneys. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z Cooking pots were made out of clay and shaped by hand. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Kicking clay, he said, “Pitching nickels. That’s what I was doing when the fire started.” Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z “Put them on the table by the clay pot.” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z On the third or fourth day, when a potter hoped that the correct temperature had been reached, the openings were sealed with clay plugs. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z Joseph thought of all the carefully folded clay- spattered clothes he’d seen boxed up in the attic and the mud-covered shoes in Albert’s room. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z Tata Mwanza’s father came forward to set up the clay voting bowls in front of the altar. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The clay face seemed to be twisted with pain. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z There were places along the riverbank digging area where the clay was of various colors, to be sure. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z Some of the earliest authors wrote on clay. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Bright paintings and drawings decorated the walls, and clay sculptures stood along the back of the room. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z Up here the country was quite barren and the hills were rocky and hard-baked clay furrowed by the rain. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z There was no mention in his bio that he worked in clay. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z I grew up on stories of holy men parting the river Bistrița, golems shaped from clay, and, of course, those possessive spirits called dybbukim. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Another is pottery, which may have arisen from observations of the behavior of clay, a very widespread natural material, when dried or heated. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “You’ll never guess what I’m going to do,” she whispered to the clay pot. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z She handed me a rough clay bowl full of steaming vegetables, seasoned rice, and a crusty chunk of bread, and I thanked her and moved on. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z Subsequent observations by the Viking lander support the identification of windblown clays on Mars. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Mitsima rolled out another piece of clay into a long flexible cylinder, hooped it into a circle and pressed it on to the rim of the cup. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Doctors would un-squish my nose, and raise the bridge and narrow it, so it didn’t look quite so much like a lump of clay that had hardened before it could be properly shaped. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z He did not know why Min did not explain things more fully; Tree-ear’s mistakes often cost valuable time or wasted valuable clay. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z He stopped at the shack to buy a big clay bowl of sweets. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z The bowls protectively covered thirty-five toy-size, decorated figurines and twelve small, painted clay discs. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The lake water softened the clay Nhamo had so carefully applied. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The log walls are chinked with bark and clay to keep out the cold, but they don’t do the job when the wind blows hard. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The Babylonian system of numbering was like an abacus inscribed symbolically onto a clay tablet. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Out on the decks, women cook food in clay ovens and converse loudly with their neighbors. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z With blue clay I made the mark of our tribe across my nose. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a slim young man I would one day kill with a hand grenade along a red clay trail outside the village of My Khe. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z He woke up crying in a shallow hole beside the clay bank where his mother had thrown the old quilt. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z He took the road for Cambridge, crossing desolate Charlestown Common with its salt marshes, clay pits, gallows, and gibbet. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z I think of him when I bend a piece of clay over my knee to form a tile in the olden way. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z I recognized the formulas—the oils and tinctures were to fortify the liver and kidneys, and the clay was a foot soak to draw toxins. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z From under the collar of her T-shirt she pulled a leather necklace with five clay beads of different colors. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z He lit his white clay pipe and the old Chinese gentleman lit one too. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z She had the precious dress-cloth, Uncle Kufa’s knife, six matches, two clay cooking pots, her weapons, and the bag of gold nuggets around her neck. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I never appreciated the smell of the Quarter before: clay and earth and the warmth of animals living close together. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z He marched up and plunked down two big clay voting bowls in front of Leah. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Dark water lay in a few shallow pools, but for the most part it was dry and the clay banks rose high enough to offer concealment. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z He had passed by the pits many times before and had always liked looking at the scene there; the geometric pattern of the clay bank pleased him. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z In the morning he lay looking up at the clay nests that swallows had built in the corners under the bridge. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z So the diggers avoided the areas where the clay was striped dirty white or rusty red, as clay of these colors did not make the transformation to celadon green when fired. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z It took him all morning to fill the cart with clay. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z He had a twelve-pack carton of beer, two bottles of Blue Nun, and a bottle of Lancers rose, in a faux clay botde. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z In spite of the creature’s fearsome appearance, he was soft as potting clay where the baby was concerned. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Initially, the clay was scratched with pointed tools, which gradually yielded to reed styluses for neatly pressing a mark into the tablet. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He grabbed the cell door and ripped it off its hinges like it was made of wet clay. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z If there were gods in this trackless wilderness of stone and sand and red clay, they were hard dry gods, deaf to prayers for rain. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Omakayas was glad of the boring time she’d spent over the summer pressing fistfuls of gumbo clay, taken from the center of the island, into those places where the dried mud had crumbled. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z “This farm couldn’t stand any more plowing. In many places there was no topsoil left whatsoever—just outcroppings of granite and clay. We’ve been working to heal this land ever since.” The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z The women cooked with clay stoves fueled by coal, and the camp always smelled of fire and smoke. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Planting, weeding, harvesting, making clay pots, cooking, making clothes—it is all for the girls and women to do. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z His hands had pushed and kneaded my body as if it was clay, as if there was nothing else inside me, no person, no me at all. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z Mother keeps wanting to wash herself clean, but she clings to her clay and her dust. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Stoves, tables, clay fireplace—I keep filling my head with thoughts about these things so I won’t think about Frightful. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Percy fingered the clay beads around his neck. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Finally, the clay was left to settle for a few days until the water at the top either had drained away or could be bailed off. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z The clay that had filled it was now scattered in dry crumbs on the floor. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z Tree-ear would stay behind to attend to the draining, resigned and envious in the knowledge that Min was taking the clay to the wheel. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z There are tears on good days and bad, kicked over clay pots, more times than Axel can count, and loud, loud laughter. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z He knits his brow, making the clay on his forehead break into fissures. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z The floor is layered with dry splotches of paint, the walls plastered with sketches of tormented teenagers and fat puppies, the shelves crowded with clay pots. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z I picked up a clay ashtray in the shape of a lilypad, with the veinings carefully drawn in yellow on a murky green ground. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z “Now I may teach you to work the clay.” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z What if my mother breaks stone as easily as clay? I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z When the clay cracked, she pulled it off along with the feathers, and devoured the small morsels inside. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I took it and was even more careful on the rutted clay lest the big Buick lose its oil pan. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Seeing him yet undecided, Jonathan walked to the edge of the field to get a drink of water from the clay jar by the gun. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z Then there is a rutted dirt road, followed by a narrow mud and clay trail that zigzags upward. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z The giant clay container had once held wine, but now it was empty and cracking. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z He must have rolled all of the clay into one long pink coil and looped it once, twice around his shoulders like a circus performer's boa. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z “There are over three quarters of a million volumes here, and that’s not even taking into consideration the clays or scrolls or fragments from Caluptena.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Fifi sniffled as she patted her half into a small clay ball. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z The banks of the hot spring were made of thick, red clay. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z I remember a time when I could only have been five or six, sitting at a low table beside Amanda C., our hands clammy with modelling clay. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Alvarez wondered what it was about a thin lamina of clay, barely a quarter of an inch thick, that could account for such a dramatic moment in Earth’s history. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z He took a big lump of clay, poked holes in it for eyes, and stuck a few bristles on its rump. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z She took out her camp necklace, strung with her dad’s college ring and a colorful clay bead for each year at Camp Half-Blood. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z She slaps a hunk of clay on the table. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z I stretch out the hump on the bridge of her nose like it's a clay model. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z The other diggers were long gone, having cut their clay with a swift skill that left Tree-ear alone and in despair. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z They watched movies, they played tennis on clay courts, they walked long walks through the back acreage, and they swam in the pool. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z It would’ve clawed me to pieces, but as I fell backward, my fingers closed around a clay jar—one of Beckendorf s containers of Greek fire. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z He looked at the sky, thinking about rain, about the slick clay roads, himself stalled somewhere miles from town. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Inside were six bottles of tincture, two vials of essential oil, and a bag of white clay. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z A few men lit clay pipes with hot coals and puffed out a rank smoke. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Looking at it, you see right away that the biggest problem is the massive chunk of clay in the middle of the face that’s not supposed to be there. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z Some of the clay balls were drying out too quickly; he dampened the cloths that covered them. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z The disk’s writing medium was clay, which is much bulkier and heavier than paper. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Drunk, voices slurred, they recalled the violent tremors that had splintered the earth like a clay pot, the dead who’d strewn Lkossa’s streets in the aftermath. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z He kept them in his waist pouch along with his two flint stones and a ball of clay. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z The work of a human, the work of nature; clay from the earth, a branch from the sky. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z The Phaistos disk anticipates humanity’s next efforts at printing, which similarly used cut type or blocks but applied them to paper with ink, not to clay without ink. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The clay was cracked and slightly soft to the touch. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z I shuddered to see those clay dolls take life. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘But don’t clay for these here bricks cost money? And don’t it take money to rent land and raise crops on?’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z To get the clay, my father dug deep pits near the fields that swallowed his entire body. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z Reluctantly, I took up the recorder, and with fingers like soft clay, tried to play. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z She kept digging, scooping out handfuls of clay until the hole was as deep as her arm was long. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z But I look at Miss Celia bawling into her old nightgown, and I get a guilt thick as Yazoo clay. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z “Not like a lump of clay the size of a golf ball,” Inigo answered. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z The massive walls had been plastered with red clay mud, but the weather had exposed the straw in the plaster; under a broken tin rain gutter, plaster was peeling away, exposing brown adobe bricks. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z He lay in the center of a red clay trail near the village of My Khe. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z He’d found himself in the courtyard of a burned-out mansion in the middle of the woods, wearing shorts, an orange T-shirt, and a leather necklace with a bunch of strange clay beads. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z For a long time she sat and molded the clay. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z In the front of the room, Ellegua, god of the crossroads, inhabits the clay eggs in nine rustic bowls of varying sizes. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z After three times through the sieve, the clay was noticeably smoother, with a silky touch as light as feathers. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z The wall opposite was made of some rough clay or plaster. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z The neighbors slipped away to go to their houses, and Juana squatted by the fire and set her clay pot of boiled beans over the little flame. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z They galloped away, kicking up red clay dust; they were still going south. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z He’s shaved, washed his hair, and put on a smock, which is spattered with clay, as is the water bottle he’s holding to his lips. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z He being placed again upon the pine needles, he curled and put his hands in his mouth; his lips were dry with clay. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z I mixed the moonshine into a zinc-and-sulfur compound and was rewarded with a thick gray composite that could be shaped like modeling clay. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Tree-ear had watched his master make dozens of those petals and had finally taken a small lump of clay home in his waist pouch to practice himself. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z She would have kneeled on the ground, but she was afraid of disrupting the clay figures standing on the ground at her feet. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z The country was barren and rocks stuck up through the clay. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z There was the moment Papito discovered that the dogs had snuck into a hole in our house’s clay wall and stolen the meat. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z He picked at the clay and grime streaked across his shirt and tie. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Where we had a big fireplace and mantel made out of bricks from the Settlement’s brickyard, they still had a fireplace made out of clay and rocks. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z Behind them, a woman in a brown burqa carried a large clay pot on her shoulder, down a rutted path toward a string of mud houses. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z He paced by me several times, tossing his big ball of clay from hand to hand like a baseball. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Then he drops a bag of earthenware clay on my table and commands me to make the model, first thing, now that I know what hides inside the practice rock. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z Quang-ha is in love with Dell's large TV and he finds a program where Japanese soccer players use their heads to smash clay pots. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z He smelled leather wet with horse sweat, and damp clay from the edge of the pool where the mare stood knee-deep; he smelled winter coming in the wind. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z When they stepped outside they found a clay pot with a heavy wooden lid. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Villages that made beautiful sculptures out of clay and hardened them with fire. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z Purple and blue cotton saris are slung across the open windows of a clay house. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z A clay stove was out back with a fire in it. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z She showed him how to play tennis on a clay court. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z Lacking any pressing engagements, I picked up the clay soldier and walked over. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z For the stem and leaves he used the red clay. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z If the clay was for a sturdy teapot to be used every day, a single draining might suffice. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z But there was no sign of Min at his work, nor any wet clay on the wheel. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z I watched for a few seconds while Ariana started piling the fondant back up until it looked like a mound of clay again. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z Much of it was decorated by rolling or pressing a cord on the clay while it was still soft. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He’s lost in it, drinking and spitting and molding, drinking arid spitting and molding, sculpting like he’s trying to pull something he needs out of the clay, needs badly. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z They are each a mound of clay, and the potter that is the portly, shiny-faced commandant is throwing four hundred identical pots. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Our soil wasn't so good, though: dusty on top with hard clay underneath that. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Esme laughed and clapped her hands, and when a bomb fell close by a moment later, causing the clay man to lose his balance and fall into the tub, she only laughed harder. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z The ground is soft clay, so their horses’ hooves make no sound. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z How she walked into an examining room and a patient asked “Is the doctor coming?” and when she said she was the doctor the patient’s face changed to fired clay. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z There we find a large clay pot filled with hominy and venison stew, fish on the grill and bread baking in the hot ashes on the ground. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z Esme’s face glowed with delight as the clay man sprang to his feet and strolled along the lip of the tub. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z This is why one day, when Blanca was complaining of a terrible migraine, he called her and without warning dropped a ball of clay into her lap. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Tree-ear stirred and stirred the mixture with a wooden paddle until the clay and water were uniformly combined. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z He takes a long second or two to look into my eyes, holding them like clay holds water. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z With her hands, she would dig a hole in the damp clay of the lakebed. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z As the conductor waved his arms, he molded the air like handfuls of soft clay, and the musicians carefully followed his every direction. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z Then she sat by the candlelight and sang as she worked the wet clay. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Mostly the proper way to mix the clay, the proper way to form the tiles and smooth the dry ones, so that through wind, sun, rain they will last and last. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z After eating they explored the art building, looking at sculptures and silk screens in cool corridors thick with the fragrance of wet paint and clay. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z Devan set the tray on the table and filled two clay cups. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Gregor washed off his leg and put on some ointment from a red clay pot he remembered Solovet using for wounds. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Over the past month or so Tree-ear had filled his idle time by molding clay. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z He repeated this action for each empty space until the white-petaled flower was clearly visible against the dull clay. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z We molded animals and birds out of clay. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Her face was emotionless, a blank lump of clay. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z A lump of compacted clay sped like a cannon directly at the spot where Butler’s head had been barely a second previously. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z In the Fertile Crescent, village accountants began keeping records with clay tokens around 8000 b.c. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z He collected scrap metal, made clay pots, and worked in a convenience store. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z I looked back at the kid selling clay suns, but he was looking somewhere else now. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z In a patch of clay, Hen Wen’s tracks showed as plainly as if they had been carved. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z Swedish style, it was made of logs, chinked with decaying clay, and clogged with clods of moss. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z The American Bottom clay, known as smectite clay, is especially prone to swelling: its volume can increase by a factor of eight. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z She spent all day working on oil paintings, watercolors, charcoal drawings, pen-and-ink sketches, clay and wire sculptures, silk screens, and wood blocks. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z The whole of her crammed into a little clay pot. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He tried to bribe her with a handful of his clay. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Mice and rats and dogs have burrowed these tunnels through the dried clay, searching for food scraps. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z There are water blasters, modeling clay, action figures, handballs, scratch-and-sniff erasers, and Legos. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z In September 1832, exploring the gray cliffs and low-lying clay bays near Punta Alta, he discovered an astonishing natural cemetery, with fossilized bones of enormous extinct mammals splayed out before him. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Then all of us climbed out but Enoch, who took a clay man from his pocket and laid it gently on the boy’s chest. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z How odd it looked, with its rough frame of clay. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z The children took cracked clay bowls from a pile on the worn wooden table and sat down on stools. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z “What’s working here?” asks Sandy Ellis, master ceramicist, clay instructor, and my advisor. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z He spat on his hands, then he split open the hot clay and smelled the sweet flesh of the hedgehog, which had cooked, slowly, in the embers, as he had slept. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z Cadaverous black circles ringed his eyes like a raccoon, and his overalls—the same ones he’d worn in pictures I’d seen—were streaked with clay and dirt. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z I look at my four boys, who are the colors of silt, loam, dust, and clay, an infinite palette for children of their own, and I understand that time erases whiteness altogether. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z He watched them stumble and crawl up the loose clay of the steep riverbank. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z It suddenly felt like a mound of clay was sitting in my gut. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z In an impressive display of engineering savvy, the Cahokians encapsulated the slab, sealing it off from the air by wrapping it in thin, alternating layers of sand and clay. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The stump from the fallen white pine now holds one of Byrd’s clay planters on top. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z It took time to make a lump of clay look like a good cow. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z The dolls were made of clay and shellacked with candle wax. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Anatole has set out in front of the school a collection of big clay bowls and next to each one the knife, the bottle, or the matches. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z One such technological innovation was the use of flat clay tablets as a convenient writing surface. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I was beyond fury at this little creature, who had spoiled my chances at amassing a fortune of pink clay. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z You could get hot clay skin treatments, if you didn’t mind strangers touching you. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z It was sticky hot and he hated the ashy taste of the water stored in a clay pot behind the house. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Sadness turns our features to clay, not porcelain. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z She ran her still-raw fingers across the clay pots and wooden tools, amazed at how each had its own texture and weight Everything seemed so heavy and... serious. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Then came trout fresh from the river, baked in clay; her prince helped her crack open the hard casing to expose the flaky white flesh within. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z In a corner stood a clay chamber pot, disguised as a decorative cabbage. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z He would squeeze his eyes shut, hold his breath, and rub the clay between his fingers, trying desperately to detect whatever was different about a fifth or sixth draining. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z The clay on Guillermo’s forehead has crinkled up with his confusion. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z Dylan continues to the second pedestal where a bowl of clay sits. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z A clay jar of Greek fire broke on the floor and began to burn, green flames spreading quickly. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z Here there was still mud underfoot, cool and soothing after the hot baked clay of the roads. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z The clay in the bed was coming along well; it would be ready to form into balls soon. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z The earth of Resthaven was heavy with clay: it baked hard in the sun. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z “Am I to fill my mouth with clay? Am I to be lectured by one who was wetting his loincloth when I was out buying cattle for my family?” A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The creature’s twiglike hands moved to its face and pushed the pale clay about, making something like a nose. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z Then, using a wooden blade, he scored the surface of the clay in the drainage bed so it would dry faster. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z My leg got to trembling, so I lay down, watching the sky turn as red as the clay John was cutting. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z Ben poured from a clay jug into a leather mug and handed it to my mother. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z His eyebrows rise at that, cracking the clay on his forehead. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z On the underside of its lid was a lip of clay that held the lid in place. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z I sat against one of the house’s clay walls. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z His face is scarred from smallpox, and his shoulders look as though they’ve been hewn from soft clay. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Lola’s face was so white and rigid, like a clay mask, that Emily, unable to read an expression there, instantly knew the worst. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z She had to drag herself across the clay floor on her belly when I saw her in the prison cell. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z And the clay from the village pits contained exactly the right amount of iron to produce the exquisite gray-green color of celadon so prized by collectors. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z Sam and Alice were sitting around a small fire, cracking hickory nuts and putting the meats in clay tureens for the winter. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Jack, his face smeared with clays, reached the top first and hailed Ralph excitedly, with lifted spear. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z You start trying to reshape the nose and smooth over some of the bumps, but the clay has started to harden and it’s a lot more difficult to work with. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z He shone his light on ancient clay jars. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z I wrote this one night: “The raft is almost done. Bando has promised to stay until we can sail out into the deep fishing holes. “Bando and I found some clay along the stream bank. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z But on the north wall of the room there was an old war shield hanging from a wooden peg set into the white clay wall. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Maester Luwin made a little boy of clay, baked him till he was hard and brittle, dressed him in Bran's clothes, and flung him off a roof. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Holly bent to the ground, brushing the dried leaves and twigs from the clay’s surface. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z But for a finely wrought incense burner commissioned by a wealthy merchant as a gift to the temple, the clay might be drained twice or even three times. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z The building was simple—walls built from mud bricks and straw, a roof made of wood beams and clay. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z He scrabbled in the dirt, cramming handfuls of wine-impregnated clay into his cavernous mouth. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z The clay sculpture beside him appears to be finished now—he must’ve worked all night—but it’s nothing like it was when I left. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z She sits in front of the fire in her bedroom, drinking a cup of nettle tea from a clay mug shaped like a snake, its tail coiling to make the handle. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z "Why doesn't it seep into the clay as well?" A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Recessed into the dome-shaped top of each stove were two shallow clay dishes that served as burners. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z It had two sleeping cots, a wooden table, two straight-backed chairs, a window, and shelves nailed to the walls where Nana placed clay pots and her beloved Chinese tea set. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z When early civilizations started pressing reeds to clay tablets, carving figures in stone, and daubing ink on parchment and on papyrus, number systems had already been well-established. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z She was wearing jeans and an orange camp T-shirt and her clay bead necklace. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z He would merely pick up a ball of clay and stalk off with it toward the house. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z Jagged rocks stuck up through the red clay. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z We even see what kind of tree it is. as hard and unyielding as the red Georgia clay. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z I watch in disbelief as he raises a fist and heaves it into the back of the clay man, leaving a hollow that I feel on my own spine. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z East Texas clay mixes with plaster dust from the school; red sludge sucks at the soles of work boots. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Explosions were common at the brickworks, for companies would use dynamite to loosen the clay before the great machines scooped it up to make bricks. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Alice Evans was trying to make fire hydrants out of clay, which so far just looked like pathetic lumps. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z He strokes his beard, transporting flecks of clay from his hand to it. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z Above these again were the playrooms where, the weather having turned to rain, nine hundred older children were amusing themselves with bricks and clay modelling, hunt-the-zipper, and erotic play. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z The gold of the revolution, melted into blocks that were then covered with baked clay, was beyond all control. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z He was puffing on a pipe made from a long-stemmed calabash with a clay tobacco bowl inserted in the round bulb of the plant. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Mulch would have been indignant had he not been busy chewing clay to eject at his enemy. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z The city’s focus, its Eiffel Tower or Tiananmen Square, was a 103-foot-tall clay mound, a bulging, vertically fluted cone somewhat resembling a head of garlic. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The road changed to red clay and the sand was behind them. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z There were tables set up there, and they were covered with various clumps of that rust-colored mud so greasy it’s mostly just clay, and poking from some of those clumps were the fossils. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z “First of all,” said Mitsima, taking a lump of the wetted clay between his hands, “we make a little moon.” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Mona opened one of the boxes and pulled out dried flowers, rusty brown in color, and dropped them into the clay pot. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Inside, Guillermo is absorbed in another clay piece—so far, a man, all huddled up. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z “We’re making a clay map. Our group was just about to split up the readings.” Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z Poppy lifted out a deep blue vessel with a wide round mouth and a clay stopper. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Anemone near about ran outside with it, her face red as clay as she handed it over. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z She did not remember the rest of it, something about placing clay pot on top of clay pot to form a ladder to the sky. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Okay, go find that imaginary clay baby’s head sculpture you did. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z She returned the small clay pot, and the wad of bloody seaweed, to the pack, which now dangled, near empty, from her shoulders. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z And 1 haven’t asked for more food—it should make no difference to her which bowl… He carted clay again for Min, and by midafternoon he had grown more accustomed to the work. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z Like a clay mold around a now-cool piece of iron they fell away, leaving something clean and hard behind. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Long shelves lined the walls, crowded with clay pots in varying sizes. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z Aru remembered pressing her nose against the glass case, staring at the lump of clay. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z It almost reminds me of clay, or wet cement. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Its edges were rounded a little bit, like it was made of clay or something. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z Within moments it was little more than a heap of thatch, wattle, and clay. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z And with a sound like a flapping of a bird’s wing, the clay figures moved — clearing a path for Minli. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z I put it with the others and wiped shed clay on my pants. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z I thought about everything underground, like worms, and roots, and clay, and buried treasure. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z In addition, we know that montmorillonite clays are a potent catalyst for combining amino acids into longer chain molecules resembling proteins. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z On the bottom shelf behind a row of salves in squat clay jars he found a vial of indigo glass, no larger than his little finger. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z A clay building houses chickens in cool, connected holes. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Huge clay cliffs loomed over her in colors of chocolate, pearl, and rust. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Thus dwarf anatomy ensured that anything above the level of a soda burp passed below, actually aiding in the expulsion of unwanted clay. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z The girls splashed their faces with warm water, rubbing off all the clay. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z He envisioned digging down to the first reasonably firm layer of clay, known as hard-pan, and there spreading a pad of concrete nearly two feet thick. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Bits of dried clay clung to the heel. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z The sophomore clay crew is a pretty good sampling of the CSA student body: freak-flags of every variety flying proud and loud. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z Something was wrong with each, however—drainage, sunlight, clay soil. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z It’s like the world is clay and he’s shaping them within his mental frames. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z The bowl of his pipe was made of meerschaum clay, and it had a flexible stem about three feet long so that the bowl rested on his lap. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z Norma’s hair was the color of clay, her yellow eyes slanted at the corners, and her skin glowed the same color as the inside of a yam. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z Tree-ear froze, completely still except for the tips of his fingers in the clay. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z Min threw a mass of clay the size of a cabbage onto the center of the wheel. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z The gray clay was slippery, and it stuck to the soles of his boots. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Bloom dug into a clay jar, latched onto a chocolate chip cookie, ate it. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Others, perhaps most of the clay pots, from the way it appeared, cracked and broke into shards in the crude heat and were left in clumps in the desert. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Between this level and the surface was a mixture of sand and clay so saturated with water that engineers called it gumbo. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z A semicircle of little boys, their bodies streaked with colored clay, sharp sticks in their hands, were standing on the beach making no noise at all. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z There weren’t as many palm trees there as I remembered, and some of the homes had been reduced to roofless walls and piles of twisted clay. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z When we pass by, I see that the clay man survived yesterday’s battery, more than survived. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z A mixture of sand and fine brown adobe clays and gray caliche, it had the texture, viscosity, and crippling powers of a tar pit. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The clay got wetter as she dug, until, at last, water began to seep into the bottom of the hole. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Her twisted fingers looked like the rough old roots of a tree that had grown around a clay brick. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z First, he rubbed the turquoise stone until it became warm and was as soft as a piece of clay. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z The clay had long since lost any feeling of roughness, but somehow he knew. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z Didn’t say much else when I told him how to cut into the clay and haul it up, until he had a good number of the bricks in the wagon. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z A wood fire burned beneath a concave clay griddle called a comal. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Each vase was placed carefully on three seashells set in a triangle atop one of the clay shelves, in a position near the middle of the kiln where Min determined it would fire best. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z A rough mantelpiece teemed with small bright objets d’art made of plaster, porcelain, clay, and milk glass. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z She fingered a glazed white bead painted with the image of a pine tree, one of her clay end-of-summer tokens. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z The flint stones and the little clay turtle fell out, followed by the string of coins. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z Nothing at all like the tile and clay oven I had in Pátzcuaro with its wide wood mantel. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z I might never be a pretty sculpture, but I was done with being the doctors’ clay. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z Then, dressed in a rubber apron and wooden clogs, she lit her kiln, prepared her worktables, and pounded the clay for her classes, her arms up to her elbows in the coarse, cold mud. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Only the sky had changed, washed clear of the dust and haze which had swirled off the red clay flats the summer before. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z She felt light-headed as her blood drained from her, making a slight hissing sound when it struck the mixture in the clay pot. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Plenty of wood filled the shed at the kiln site; balls of clay and bowls of slip awaited Min’s need. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z The clays of the primitive Earth may have been the forge of life, and the chemistry of contemporary Mars may provide essential clues to the origin and early history of life on our planet. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Scooping the clay crumbs into his palm, he spat on them, softened and mixed them with a careful finger, then pressed them into the crack and smoothed the edges as well as he could. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z Suddenly, he clapped his hands once and snapped, “Go, then. White and red clay, drained, as for glaze.” A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z The three of them stood looking at one another for a long minute, children and parents carrying clay pots weaving between them. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z It was summer and the smell of clay dust was everywhere, day and night. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Slow and immutable, they appeared at the door carrying an enormous vessel sealed with clay. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He teaches English in a college near the Hudson River, and during the long school vacations he helped me with difficult chores, like making clay pots and blueberry jam. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Small clay figurines in the shape of horses and tigers rattled together as they hit the floor. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Then he poured some out into a clay dish and took the rag and stuffed it back into the bottle with the screwdriver. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z Up through the hole came the smell of damp clay, and something else, an acrid tang like sour vinegar. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z With an incising awl, he inscribed the leather-hard clay—a simple chrysanthemum design, far cruder than much of the elaborate incision work for which the potters of Ch’ulp’o were known. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z Taro looks around my room, taking in the abundance of art prints I’ve collected over the years and the shelves of “creepy clay things” against the wall. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z It had once been surrounded by English gardens, which had partly collapsed into clay and African weeds. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Sumerian scribes had progressed to inscribing on clay tablets with sharpened reeds. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z In the highlands of Kenya, their bare and sandaled feet pound the shoulders of the highway into braids of red clay. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Inside, there is a big round container that looks like a three-foot-tall clay flowerpot, which Kim and the other cousins fill with water every evening. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Women cooked on clay stoves outside; babies cried. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Next he rolled the clay between his palms until it formed a long snake. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z But because it was much bigger than the pond, the clay of the lake- bed still held water. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Many of them were lined with clay, which made them leakproof. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Mei-li and the cave and getting chased by the cops and Mong saying I was his best friend and then going swimming and me staring through the Mexican border at the kid selling clay suns. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z In addition to vegetables and fruits, they eat insects, grass, roots, and small pieces of clay, which they chew and swallow, perhaps to get salt and minerals. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z When she had finished mixing her herbs she let the small bowl simmer on the stove, then she took from her black bag a large lump of fresh, black clay. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The technique of baking clay in a kiln, it seems, was not invented until later. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z In only a few moments the clay rose and fell, grew taller, then rounded down, until it curved into perfect symmetry. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z ‘There’s earth under his old feet, and clay on his fingers; wisdom in his bones, and both his eyes are open,’ said Tom. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z We made toy cows out of clay and made the sounds of cows and goats with our mouths. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z This was then covered by a layer of clay and plaster compound. Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction 1973-09-19T00:00:00Z According to Tommie, when Muff told her that she’d never get that red clay out by slopping things around in the tub, the Mexican girl burst into tears. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z The earth was perfect for a gopher hole too, black and soft and yet with a little clay in it so that it didn’t crumble and the tunnels didn’t cave in. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z He taught her how to move the wheel with her foot while her hands flew across the moistened clay to make vases and jugs. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The room smelled like the white clay the people used for whitewash. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z The clay man jumped up and clicked his heels, then took an exaggerated bow. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Daddy sets the bush in a clay pot and pours dirt over the roots. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z The ground smelled like wet clay where the hose had dripped all over, despite my efforts to tighten it. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z The building across from ours was three stories high, crisscrossed by iron stairs with narrow landings on which people grew tomatoes and geraniums in clay pots. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z Set on the hillside just outside the center of the village, it looked like a long, low tunnel made of hardened clay. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z Our thoughts are clay, they are moulded with the changes of the days;—when we are resting they are good; under fire, they are dead. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z She twisted herself into a kneeling position, getting several bad scratches from the acacias in the process, and pulled the clay pot back. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Her fingertips on his skin held the warmth of a clay pot left out in the sun. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z The clay hypothesis hardly excludes life on Mars, but it certainly carries us far enough to say that there is no compelling evidence for microbiology on Mars. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Had it really been made of clay, it would have exploded into shards. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z I was no longer a girl, yet I made it anyway, using the blue clay and some white clay for the dots. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z I was going to build a fireplace of clay, even fashion a little chimney of clay. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z She imagines her footprints sinking invisibly through the streets and the sidewalks, below the condensed archaeology of the city to underground plains of rich alluvial clay. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z He began pinching, kneading, rolling—not making anything yet, just waiting for the clay to whisper an idea. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z Many women, children, and timid folk had spent the night hidden in the clay pits. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z It was made out of white clay and it looked like someone had forgotten to paint it. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z She perched on his rustic bedstead and warmed herself by the clay fireplace. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z He set the cage down and took the clay pipe out of his pocket. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z But what the potters sought was the gray-brown clay that fused so well with the celadon glaze. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z And what did this kid selling clay suns not do? We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z Mwari took more clay and made the fishes, only he didn’t have much left, so he couldn’t give them legs. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The raw substances available to ancient peoples were natural materials such as stone, wood, bone, skins, fiber, clay, sand, limestone, and minerals, all existing in great variety. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z It was the first time he had prepared the clay to such a fine finish without further prompting from Min. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z There were clay jars and bowls aplenty, filled with I knew not what. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z He had imagined himself at the wheel, a beautiful pot growing from the clay before him. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z Here the clay had been cut away in neat slabs, leaving a pattern of staggered rectangles in the riverbank. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z Whenever I make a new model I make a clay astronaut figure and hide him in it. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z But of course, rice seedlings can’t be planted in hard clay, so on top of the clay, there has to be a thick, soft layer of mud. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z She reached out a hand and found that his clothes were already caked with the sandy clay of the riverbed. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Tree-ear paused for a moment when he reached the clay pits. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z Some of the houses were very old and some quite new, but they were all built in much the same way out of wood and clay and thatch. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Once I reach the clay tiles, I lean back on my elbows, lightheaded and reveling at my small feat. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z He touched a whitewashed wall as he went through a doorway, and rubbed the powdery clay between his fingers. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z For days she’d proudly shown the little brush, made of splinters of wood shoved into a lump of clay, to anyone who would listen. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z The pavilion and courtyard had painted walls and floors of colored sand and clay; heavy sculptural objects, including several of the trademark heads, studded the area. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The red clay flats had dried into brittle curls where the standing water had been baked out by the sun. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z She chopped up old termite mounds and used the clay to make pots, firing them in heaps of coals. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Mother had brought some with her, hoping Grandma would ask, and Grandma tried them—foot soaks in red clay, cups of bitter parsley tea, tinctures of horsetail and hydrangea. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z My entire body suddenly felt frigid and immobile, as though my blood had turned to clay. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z She lowered her eyes to the floor, tracing the red clay that he had tracked into the bedroom. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z At the end of the day, Enrique’s Journey covered in clay and manure dust, he bathes in a cattle trough. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Water rises through the clay to meet it, but cannot proceed further because the sand is too loose for further capillary action. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Min had shaped and then carved the clay to form curve of wing and tilt of head. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z Her people undoubtedly drank from clay jugs and hollered for Paw when the vittles were ready—so who was she to advise me on anything? Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z From the lookout, they could also see the colored clay cliffs of Moshup Beach, but you couldn’t get down to the water without a hot walk of about half a mile. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z The metal girders looked like dull gray clay in the rain. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z None knew yet that it belonged to him and he walked out to see it alone, a long square of heavy black clay that lay stretched beside the moat encircling the wall of the town. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z There were glass pigs and clay pigs and marble pigs. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z “Great. This is just like shooting clay pigeons, but they make a different sound when you hit one.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z The earth was eroded to gray clay, and deep arroyos cut through the length of the valley between the mesas. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z “I have a little dreidel, I made it out of clay,” sang Laney, off-key and very loud. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z Inside the truck box lives a smell: clay, spilled diesel mixed with something putrid. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Peeta genuinely seems to enjoy this station, swirling a combination of mud and clay and berry juices around on his pale skin, weaving disguises from vines and leaves. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z The clay and snow were churned into a muddy trench along the gate where the cattle had milled around, pushing their bony heads against the juniper poles, working for another escape. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z She’s the clay woman climbing out of the clay man’s chest. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z There was the wonder I felt when I first saw a brace of mountainlike, spotted, black-and- white horses clopping down a dusty road through clouds of powdered clay. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Nor can the water evaporate; the clay layers atop the sand press down and prevent air from coming in. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Four poultice rooms line the wall, holding the promise of healing from red clay, oakwood charcoal, amethyst gem, and blue onyx. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z But she was hired, and on the way out of the place she bought ten cents worth of chocolate and a little modeling clay set for George. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Firelight flickered on the wet cave walls, illuminating the buffalo head, the man’s body, skin the color of brick clay. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z The moon had risen, and rice was simmering on the clay stove when Neel spotted him coming into the courtyard. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z The clay woman climbing out of the clay man’s chest. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z Maybe I can blend in with the metal tables and crumbling clay pots. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z She wished he could rest inside the cool clay hut. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z In one corner are bags of clay stacked on shelves. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z For you ’11 never miss a mother’s love Till she’s buried beneath the clay. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z It was there the priest and I dug her grave, in water-laden clay. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z The bricks were fashioned out of grass and clay, which was pressed into a wooden mold about seventy-five centimeters long. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z Militsa, who’d graduated from the Engels Flying School herself seven years ago, led the group between the clay houses of the town to their new home. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z I am so hot, I feel as if my skin is covered with a scum of red clay. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z She decided to make a clay bust of Shakespeare. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z That day he could smell the pale, almost blue clay the old women used for plastering the walls. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z That is only a statue made of clay and bronze.’” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z They were all stuck in a caste system as hard and unyielding as the red Georgia clay, and they each had a decision before them. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Even though the day was overcast, I had one of Mother’s old parasols shading both me and the Plant, which was snugly ensconced in a small clay flowerpot. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z He breathed deeply, trying to find a trace of the locust-blossom perfume, but all he smelled was the white clay plaster, as timeless as the cliffs where it came from. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z They were lifelike, but I did not recognize the likeness of the clay dolls as anyone I knew. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “My mother has been learning how to make clay pots since she retired from her neuroscience work. The metallic sculptures are my father’s, welded together with leftover computer parts from his repair shop.” Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z A voice seemed to call out to her from inside the clay lamp. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z When we were little, we practiced our second arcana by manipulating paint on a canvas, shaping clay on a pottery wheel, and molding fresh-dipped candlesticks, until we were able to transform them into treasures. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z The soil had a lot of clay and there were some sacks of chicken manure to add to it. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Moistening the clay was easy—capillary action will draw up water from the floodplain, which has a high water table. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z She was making a pot from wet clay. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z In fact, they kind of resemble my clay sculptures. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z He was leaning against a big wooden stand full of clay suns. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z The smell of clay and mountain sage stirred old memories. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z All morning, I tagged behind Mundín, begging him to trade me that packet of clay. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z "These clay jars . . . do you have an ample supply?" A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Pushing my back hard against the palace stone, while my feet pressed against the clay wall, I managed to turn about. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z The she-elk was bigger than life, painted in pale lavender clay on the south face of sandstone, along the base of the cliff. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z She smiled, as if pleased that he had finally understood something important, and gestured to two small clay pots at the corner. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z His head was bowed over two clay figures in his hand, so that the most that Minli saw of him was the top of his head. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z She sat crouched over, on the doorstep of her cabin, sucking on an empty clay pipe. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z He put wet clay in her shoes and made her spend the entire day walking around in them. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z A model of the bell, as if it were solid, was first made of clay and plaster of Paris. Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction 1973-09-19T00:00:00Z Its bark fascinated Olanna, the way it was discolored and patchy, a light clay alternating with a darker slate, much like the skin of village children with the nlacha skin disease. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z “Our Father”—he was singing—“You who took my feet out the mire and clay—” The church moaned, “Amen.” I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z She knew how thin you needed to make paint so that it would flow and how thick you could make it so that it would clump on the canvas like clay, something to be sculpted. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z He had deep brown eyes—I mean completely brown with no whites or black pupils, like eyes formed out of clay. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z He tilted his head back and drained the last of the wine from his wide clay cup. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z He spent that afternoon teaching her how to shape the clay into pieces of kitchen crockery, and the girl forgot all about her pains. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z From an engineering standpoint, clay should never be selected as the bearing material for a big earthen monument. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The clay felt good— fine, pliant, smooth—but not ready yet. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z The white chalk symbolized our purity, and I still recall how stiff the dried clay felt on my body. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He took the clay turtle from his waist pouch and squeezed it back into a ball. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z The road curved through red clay and junipers uphill to the northeast. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Rattling around inside were a few small clay figurines, each no longer than her pinky. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z He and the other boys run around in the mud; large extra feet of clay stick to the soles of their boots, leaving tracks like monsters. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z At the hut, the clay water container stands as tall as my chest. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It was an old cabin with its chinks filled with chalk-white clay, with bright new shingles patching its roof. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Enoch sat on the floor, whittling a piece of hard clay. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z “Maybe no dreidel songs,” Isa said as Laney continued chanting, “Dreidel, dreidel, dreidel, I made it out of clay!” The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z He pulls a bucket of clay from under the pottery wheel, breaks off fist-sized balls, and tosses one to each of us. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z The sacks, as they pass, seem strange: they look as though they have been sculpted out of gray clay Neumann Two raises his chin. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Wandering in the basins south of Clovis, he observed what looked like immense bones protruding from the dry, blue-gray clay. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z I like how substantial they are, how you can feel the weight of the clay. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z They were the first to receive the rain and they gave off a wet clay odor that was like the smell of life itself. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The wet clay was far heavier than he had ever imagined. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z Tree-ear was learning a new skill now—the draining of the clay. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z Around 750 b.c. it was attacked and its temple razed in a fire so intense that the clay walls melted. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Instead, I played alone in the back yard, bouncing a rubber ball off the fence, drawing figures in the soft clay with an old knife, or reading what books I found about the house. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The clay for glaze was mixed in precise proportions with water and wood ash. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z Neeley had a boxful of “miggies,” small brown and blue speckled marbles made of clay which cost a penny for twenty. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z This was plain and unadorned for the most part, but all well and fairly made: round platters, bowls and dishes of glazed brown clay or turned box-wood, smooth and clean. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z What is woman but a clay vessel easily broken? Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z “But it can’t be built in clay. No kiln,” I say. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z The clay was shoveled into one of the pits and water mixed in to form a thick viscous mud. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z It was packed red clay, scraped clean of trees and grass. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z They picked the best paintings to brighten the dark clay walls inside their one-room hut. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z He can’t hurt those big boxes: they are invoiced as “clay,” and to pull them about is as harmless a thing as he can do. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z The endless cycle of work for Min continued: chopping wood, cutting clay, draining clay. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z It shone on the clay fireplace Sam had built from riverside clay. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Once her feet had been like balls of baked clay, but Sister Gladys had made her work on them with a pumice stone. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The outline of the design was first etched lightly into the leather-hard clay with the finest point. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z I went between the walls of clay and picked up bricks that had cracked open; when my barrow was full, I would wheel it out onto a wooden scaffold and dump it into a pond. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Deep into wet pits of clay, into sticky ditches, up slippery slopes I would struggle with the pail. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Most of the homes in the village looked the same, with smooth clay walls, thatched roofs, dirt paths, and large stone thresholds. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z Now Juana brought her clay pot of water and she washed the cut on his face while he stared dazed ahead of him. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z He feels ill at ease with the praise, just as he had when he was a child and destroyed his drawing of the cat, the clay figure of the elephant. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z The clay man sat up and Enoch pushed it back down with his thumb. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z It was overgrazed; rain eroded big arroyos in the gray clay, and the salt bush took hold. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z He was owned by the boss of the brickyard and he haunted the clay aisles, snapping, growling. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z My brain feels blank to everything, like a mound of clay, smooth, uninterrupted, and shapeless—without scars or memory. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z An unseen hand turned off the radio as he crossed the threshold, and bags of potato chips vanished, leaving the faint scent of salt to mix with vermilion oil paint and wet clay. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z It’s a crisp, sunny day, and I figure the clay will dry faster in the sun, so when I’m done, I take the two trays of tiles to my table and put them there. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z One of them contained white clay, and the other red. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z Hollow and lifeless as a witchery clay figure. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z She remembered hurling a handful of clay in the broad face of a brickburner boy bearing down on her. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Workers pour clay, water, and dried cow manure into large pits. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Then, with a press of Enoch’s thumb against the clay man’s tiny chest, he came to life. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Tree-ear sometimes wanted to cry out and beat his fists into the clay in frustration when Min made an abrupt gesture for yet another repetition of the work. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z After some time a shape began to form out of the clay; it was almost as if the clay was speaking to him, telling him what it wished to become. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z Like the deer with his eyes, or the clay with his fingers . A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z The building was to be one of the biggest on the island, made with bricks and wood instead of clay and thatch. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z Witch planes can be anything: a wooden basin, a clay pot, a simple hat. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z The little nose you made has been squashed by a giant clay splotch spread across the face. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z As for the necklace, the four clay beads were each decorated with a different symbol. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Swallows darted in and out of clay nests built under the eaves. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Up close it was a strange, crude-looking thing, its head a stump of rounded clay, its face a smeared thumbprint. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z She would go down to the river, take the clay from the riverbank, and mix it with the water to make a grayish kind of milk. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z He stood by the door of our clay brick and tin roof house laughing and then asked, “Can you even understand what you are saying?” A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z Sometimes we girls pretended that we were cooking, and we’d make plates and cooking pots out of clay, the way Sudanese women do. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z I look at my clay fireplace, which I now use only for heat and cheeriness, not cooking. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z He was pulling clay out of the bucket with his hands and slapping it into the crevices between slats of wood. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z A clay map is fine, but I have other ideas about how to make a map, too. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z The wind didn’t blow as hard up there as it did on the clay flats. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z She dropped a clay pitcher on the floor. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He was wearing a silk vest over his shirt with dragons embroidered on it in red thread, and he was smoking a long white clay pipe. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z They found a big trash heap and a multiroomed building with no pottery and a few maize cobs under the pounded clay floor. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Ulape had two boxes of earrings, for she was vainer than I, and when she put them into her baskets, she drew a thin mark with blue clay across her nose and cheekbones. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z He smelled clay and old pine from the vigas in the ceiling. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Some of the children were playing on the ground with clay toys of boys, buffalo, monkeys, and rabbits while others were being served tea by the father. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z There was nothing else: not a clay pot, not a fork, not a body. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z But the thinness of the clay layer clearly suggested that in Umbria, if nowhere else, something rather more abrupt had happened. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z By the time we got to Oklahoma, my sister had become hard and sharp, but in London she was still soft clay, and we were still friends. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z |
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