Citations:clay


 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * And if they are mute when dealt with by vessels of clay, what will they do when they shall be rebuked by the flames of a devouring fire?


 * 1719 — Daniel Defoe. Robinson Crusoe.
 * However, considering the heat of the climate, I did not doubt but if I could find out any clay, I might make some pots that might, being dried in the sun, be hard enough and strong enough to bear handling, and to hold anything that was dry, and required to be kept so; and as this was necessary in the preparing corn, meal, &c., which was the thing I was doing, I resolved to make some as large as I could, and fit only to stand like jars, to hold what should be put into them.


 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * Who shall conceive the horrors of my secret toil as I dabbled among the unhallowed damps of the grave or tortured the living animal to animate the lifeless clay?