Fragment of pottery, ceramics, or glass.
1The following list, however, comprises all the Latin names upon the sherd:-
2Woe to him that gainsayeth his maker, a sherd of the earthen pots.
3Poor little broken sherd, poor little fragment of a shattered life!
4He stoops, picks up a sherd from the moist ground.
5For instance, here are 'shore,' 'share,' 'shears'; 'shred,' 'sherd'; all most closely connected with the verb 'to sheer.'
6Aristides, hearing this, is said to have made no reply, but returned the sherd with his own name inscribed.
7A few of the Roman names inscribed upon the sherd I have actually since found mentioned in history and other records.
8We entrust the sherd, the scarab, and the parchments to your keeping, till such time as we demand them back again.
9But I hoarded a sherd here and there, as I could, and as the year wore on some kind of odd edifice assembled itself.
10Sherd wanted to mortify her, but she mortified him, I reckon.
11In the first place, most of the surface remains, are, as elsewhere, pottery sherds.
12Sherd thought I could resk comm' down to the wed-din'.
13Fac-simile of Black-Letter Inscription on the Sherd of Amenartas.
14Sherd oughter be mighty proud of his first marryin'.
15Have ye ever knowed me, Sherd Raines, to keer what folks in the mountains say?
16You can either hang out, go to sleep, or work on the sherds if you want.