Meanings of earthen pitcher in English

The earthen pitcher, as the saying is, and the rock do not agree.

Put the oysters, with their liquor, into a large earthen pitcher.

So, you see, it was no better than any other cracked earthen pitcher.

The only sign of refreshments visible was a white earthen pitcher filled with ice-water.

A small earthen pitcher stood on the mud floor.

There was a shelf, on which stood a brown earthen pitcher for drinking-water-butnothing else.

In this respect her face was like the earthen pitcher of Gideon: it concealed the light.

An earthen pitcher, would you call it thus?

In Tennessee, an earthen pitcher, holding a gallon, was discovered on a rock twenty feet below the surface.

Upon this latter shelf, and exactly beneath one of the rims of the keg, a small earthen pitcher was deposited.

You will easily believe that Midas lost no time in snatching up a great earthen pitcher (but, alas!

A brown earthen pitcher!

You will easily believe that Midas lost no time in snatching up a great earthen pitcher (but, alas me!

And it is strange how spiritual and suggestive the commonest household article-anearthen pitcher, for example-becomes, when represented with entire accuracy.

When the horse was harnessed the farmer's wife put two mattresses, an earthen pitcher of water, and a bottle of vinegar into the waggon.

There he sat down to rest a while by a well, where the women were drawing water in earthen pitchers.