fine clay

Jackson found a deposit of fine clay on his land.

Red ware was usually well fired and made of fine clay.

(49) Did he dare set himself up to be finer clay than the common soldier?

Her most compelling pieces are pinched objects made of fine clay from Cyprus, where she lived for a year.

She found the finest clay, built a web of wires to spread it on, and sat breathless at her bench.

His nose was small with delicate nostrils, and his eyes were gray like fine clay dirt.

Wheel made pottery predominated, and was made of finer clay.

Ceramic wares were of fine clay and smooth, micaceous red surface.

Princess Pansy asks for a fine clay doll.

A thin layer of finer clay, called slip, is applied to the surface for extra smoothness and color.

The substrate is a shallow layer of dry, fine clay and white calcareous shale.

"Once we are wed, though, every- thing will be smooth as fine clay, smooth as rock oil between the fingers."

Typically sediments depositing on the ocean floor are fine clay or small skeletons of micro-organisms.

Officials at the corporation knew all about it, and they explained that it is a kind of fine clay used to make heat-resistant oven ware.

The soil is fine clay loam left by the receding floods of the Yamuna.

It has different sized grains of quartz, feldspar, and small rock fragments set in a compact, fine clay matrix.

Vidal coughed a lot as the vehicle churned up clouds of fine clay dust, but he continued to steer with ease.

Talavera work is distinguished by the fine clays found in this area, fired with a tin and lead glaze at high temperatures.

There, sea organisms were preserved in fine clays in the Cambrian period, half a billion years ago, the time of the earliest invertebrates.

The capital, Megara, famous for white marble and fine clay, was the birthplace of Euclid.

This earthenware developed into a pottery tradition that mostly used natural clay thinly coated with a fine clay slip.

Within the Grand Hall there are about 500 fine clay sculptures of Buddhist arhats.

With one exception, pre-Hispanic wares were not glazed, but rather burnished and painted with colored fine clay slips.

With one exception, pre-Hispanic pieces were not glazed, but rather the finish was made with a slip made of extremely fine clay.

During flash floods, rainfall from the steep mountains to the west pours through narrow canyons, picking up everything from fine clay to large rocks.