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Meanings of potter's wheel in English

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Usage of potter's wheel in English
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In pottery, they showed much skill and ingenuity, and invented the potter's wheel.
Outlines of Universal History, Designed as a Text-book and for P...
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He goes already to the potter's wheel for familiar, life-like illustration.
Greek Studies: a Series of Essays
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Their bowls, pans, and pitchers were made by the potter's wheel.
Our Legal Heritage : 600-1776 King Aethelbert - King George III
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The world spins like a potter's wheel to shape the vessel of our enterprise.
If I Were King
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The potter's wheel is one of the oldest tools known.
The Wonder Island Boys: Exploring the Island
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It was he who, according to one legend, fashioned man upon a potter's wheel.
Egyptian Ideas of the Future Life
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The wheel was already known in earlier times in the form of the potter's wheel.
A History of China
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The potter's wheel did not exist in the western world, but it was almost invented.
The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia, Volume 1 of 28
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Vegas is about to sit at the potter's wheel.
The Irish Times
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Josiah was then nine years old, but already he was throwing clay on the potter's wheel.
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 13 / Little J...
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This difficulty was no doubt aggravated by his hard work turning the potter's wheel with one foot.
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 13 / Little J...
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The flight of time is but the spinning of the potter's wheel to which we are as clay.
A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.)
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The potter's wheel had been introduced.
Industrial Biography: Iron Workers and Tool Makers
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Yet we find, on the contrary, the mouth of an amphora, gracefully curved, worthy of a potter's wheel.
The Wonders of Instinct: Chapters in the Psychology of Insects
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Using a traditional potter's wheel, Villar Rojas and his team make vases that look like vessels from ancient China.
The Guardian
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It was the Dutch who taught the English how to use the potter's wheel and glaze and burn earthenware.
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