porcelain clay
Britishnoun
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A rough mantelpiece teemed with small bright objets d’art made of plaster, porcelain, clay, and milk glass.
From "Go Set a Watchman: A Novel" by Harper Lee
Ay; these look like the workmanship of heaven; This is the porcelain clay of human kind, And therefore cast into these noble moulds.
From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 07 by Scott, Walter, Sir
The minerals worked include copper, quicksilver, manganese, cobalt, porcelain clay, alabaster, graphite.
From The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 3 Atrebates to Bedlis by Various
As Father Dryden would say, 'this is the porcelain clay of humankind.'
From What Answer? by Dickinson, Anna E.
This is the porcelain clay of human kind.
From Familiar Quotations by Bartlett, John
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