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Meanings of potsherd in English
Usage of potsherd in English
1
He that teacheth a fool, is like one that glueth a potsherd together.
2
And he took a potsherd and scraped the corrupt matter, sitting on a dunghill.
3
Sisyphus had thrown his rock there and Job his potsherd.
4
And we cry with the Psalmist, 'My strength is dried up like a potsherd.'
5
My tongue is as dry as a potsherd (SCHWEITZER disappears unperceived.)
6
And he took a potsherd with which to scrape himself; and he sat among the ashes.
7
If it be baked by the sun, it becometh dead, for nothing groweth from a potsherd.
8
Perhaps you are ignorant how you are to lay the potsherd on the clay at top?
9
And the final outcome was far more disturbing than any last-minute discovery of a potsherd or hearth.
10
The pitcher may be gold and silver, or costly china, or it may be a poor potsherd.
11
And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself withal; and he sat down among the ashes.
12
When a player pitches the potsherd into the wrong division or on a line, he is out.
13
This potsherd had in my judgment, once been a part of an ordinary amphora of medium size.
14
I won't have a word said to a living soul about this nonsense, and I pointed to the potsherd.
15
When the beautiful bride heard his story, she asked to see the potsherd, for she was very learned and clever.
16
After choosing who shall be first, second, etc., the player stands at taw and tosses the potsherd into division number one.
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Potsherd through the time