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Definition of Potsherds
1. potsherd [n] - See also: potsherd
Lexicographical Neighbors of Potsherds
Literary usage of Potsherds
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"potsherds were often used for correspondence in place of the less durable papyrus;
occasionally the recipient wrote the answer on the back of the potsherd. ..."
2. Travels Through Italy, in the Years 1804 and 1805 by August von Kotzebue (1806)
"The monti' testaccio, or mount of potsherds, is said to have been produced by
all the potsherds, which, since the time of Tarquin, the potters residing in ..."
3. An exposition of the Creed by John Pearson (1857)
"Let tlie potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth : shall the clay say to
him that fashioneth it, What makest thou ? But let the man after God's own ..."
4. Southern Writers: Biographical and Critical Studies by William Malone Baskervill (1896)
"... departed flame In thee has finer life and longer fame; From -wounds and balms,
From storms and calms, From potsherds and dry bones And ruin-stones. ..."
5. Paxton's Botanical Dictionary: Comprising the Names, History, and Culture of by Joseph Paxton (1868)
"The plant will succeed in peat mixed with broken potsherds, carefully placed
about the roots, so as to ensure a safe drainage ; but the be'st way of growing ..."
6. Archeological Explorations in Northeastern Arizona by Alfred Vincent Kidder, Samuel James Guernsey (1919)
"Here are potsherds scattered in quantities, the bowlders are scored with
tool-grinding grooves, and on every smooth surface along the cliff are pictographs ..."
7. The American Antiquarian and Oriental Journal by Stephen Denison Peet (1906)
"FRAGMENTS OF THE GOSPELS OH EGYPTIAN potsherds. Adolf Deissmann writes in "Die
Christliche Welt:" Eberhard Nestle in his Introduction into the Greek New ..."
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