The fictile art. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
fictile masses of people ripe for propaganda. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
The exterior is richly and peculiarly ornamented, to show the progress of fictile art. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"] Reference
Then we meet him in the Vedas, the Being “by whom the fictile vase is formed; the clay out of which it is fabricated.”. From Wordnik.com. [The Kasidah of Haji Abdu El-Yezdi] Reference
Etruscans in an art in which afterwards they attained to such marvellous perfection, and the only relics now remaining of the fictile statuary for which Veil was so celebrated. From Wordnik.com. [Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood] Reference
No. Much of what is going through the press on the subject of pottery will have its use as promoting the advancement and clearing up the history of fictile art, and will therefore be preserved, while a larger portion will interest only the few who delve into the records of human caprice and whim. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878.] Reference
Some provision they might make by fictile vessels, coverings, tiles, or flat stones, upon and about the body (and in the same field, not far from these urns, many stones were found underground), as also by careful separation of extraneous matter composing and raking up the burnt bones with forks, observable in that notable lamp of. From Wordnik.com. [Hydriotaphia, or Urn-burial] Reference
This was not preserved by any arts or fictile graces. From Wordnik.com. [Some Diversions of a Man of Letters] Reference
Art, textile and fictile, degree of Pueblo advancement in 227. From Wordnik.com. [Eighth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1886-1887, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891] Reference
The best type of it being the most practically fictile -- a Greek vase. From Wordnik.com. [On the Old Road, Vol. 2 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature] Reference
For ours is a most fictile world; and man is the most fingent plastic of creatures. From Wordnik.com. [The French Revolution] Reference
Fortunately it doesn't bear any variety of fictile and tacky finish feeling than various other phones do. From Wordnik.com. [Article directories Celibataire Urbaine] Reference
Then we meet him in the Vedas, the Being by whom the fictile vase is formed; the clay out of which it is fabricated. From Wordnik.com. [The Kasidah of Haji Abdu El-Yezdi] Reference
Dr. Klemm long ago pointed out that the oldest German fictile vases have an ornamentation in which plaiting is imitated by incised lines. From Wordnik.com. [Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science] Reference
The fictile vessels are all of a very primitive nature, being entirely moulded by hand, and showing no trace of the use of the potter's wheel. From Wordnik.com. [Stonehenge Today and Yesterday] Reference
He had but to cover this material with a vitrification of transparent glaze, to obtain one of the most important products of fictile art -- that which, under the name of. From Wordnik.com. [Self help; with illustrations of conduct and perseverance] Reference
Hitherto, however, the reader has not been brought into contact with any specimens of Chaldaean fictile art which can be regarded as exhibiting elegance of form, or, indeed, any sense of beauty as distinguished from utility. From Wordnik.com. [The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 1. (of 7): Chaldaea The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations.] Reference
And he has slyly told us how, as he stepped aboard that "inland palace," he bethought him of having written a thesis, three years before, proving that De Witt Clinton's chimera of joining the Hudson and Lake Erie was an idea both fictile and fibrous. From Wordnik.com. [Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 03 Little Journeys to the Homes of American Statesmen] Reference
And he has slyly told us how, as he stepped aboard that “inland palace,” he bethought him of having written a thesis, three years before, proving that De Witt Clinton's chimera of joining the Hudson and Lake Erie was an idea both fictile and fibrous. From Wordnik.com. [Little Journeys To the Homes of the Great]
The fictile art of the Assyrians in its higher branches, as employed for directly artistic purposes, has been already considered; but a few pages may be now devoted to the humbler divisions of the subject, where the useful preponderates over the ornamental. From Wordnik.com. [The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 2. (of 7): Assyria The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations.] Reference
Chaldaean tombs abound, while the majority are characterized by a certain rudeness both of shape and material, we occasionally meet with specimens of a higher character, which would not shrink from a comparison with the ordinary productions of Greek fictile art. From Wordnik.com. [The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 1. (of 7): Chaldaea The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations.] Reference
These pantaloons even clothe those mas - culine ladies the Amazons, whenever they are represented on some warlike expedition; though at other times, when at home and engaged in peaceful pursuits, they appear (as on one of my fictile vases) in petticoats like other females. From Wordnik.com. [Costume of the ancients] Reference
I had read of the potter's clay and wheel in Scripture, but it had never occurred to me that the pots we use were not such as had come down unbroken from those days, or grown on trees like gourds somewhere, and I was pleased to hear that so fictile an art was ever practiced in my neighborhood. From Wordnik.com. [Walden] Reference
I had read of the potter's clay and wheel in Scripture, but it had never occurred to me that the pots we use were not such as had come down unbroken from those days, or grown on trees like gourds somewhere, and I was pleased to hear that so fictile an art was ever practised in my neighborhood. From Wordnik.com. [Walden, or Life in the woods] Reference
'Let us drink, then' said Megalonymus; 'here have I brought you a flagon of antiquated wine, with cream cheese and windfall olives -- I keep them under seal, and the seals are worm-eaten -- and others brine-steeped, and these fictile cups, thin-edged, firm-based, that we might drink therefrom, and a pasty of tripe rolled like a top-knot. From Wordnik.com. [Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 02] Reference
A very common one for pottery of all sorts, thus pointing back, dimly and curiously, to the original mode in which fictile ware generally came to be invented. From Wordnik.com. [Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science] Reference
I had read of the potter’s clay and wheel in Scripture, but it had never occurred to me that the pots we use were not such as had come down unbroken from those days, or grown on trees like gourds somewhere, and I was pleased to hear that so fictile an art was ever practiced in my neighborhood. From Wordnik.com. [Walden] Reference
And into fictile fabrics wrought. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow] Reference
Written language as related to fictile art 443. From Wordnik.com. [Origin and Development of Form and Ornament in Ceramic Art. Fourth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1882-1883, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1886, pages 437-466.] Reference
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