A potsherd is a very unfit thing to run against a brasen wall, or to dash itself upon the rock of ages. From Wordnik.com. [Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. VI.] Reference
A scraper, for which the "potsherd" of Job was a substitute. From Wordnik.com. [Smith's Bible Dictionary] Reference
Sisyphus had thrown his rock there and Job his potsherd. From Wordnik.com. [Les Miserables] Reference
Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth. From Wordnik.com. [Isaiah 45.] Reference
And he took a potsherd and scraped the corrupt matter, sitting on. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete] Reference
In 1978 he spotted a bit of painted potsherd on a nearby hillock. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-05-01] Reference
He that teacheth a fool, is like one that glueth a potsherd together. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 26: Ecclesiasticus The Challoner Revision] Reference
How does potsherd dash against potsherd, mutually destroying each other. From Wordnik.com. [The Power of Faith Exemplified In The Life And Writings Of The Late Mrs. Isabella Graham.] Reference
A fragment of a potsherd found in 1897 A.D., near the Acropolis of Athens. From Wordnik.com. [Early European History] Reference
And he took a potsherd and scraped the corrupt matter, sitting on a dunghill. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 20: Job The Challoner Revision] Reference
There's nothing wrong with being delighted at seeing a potsherd on the ground. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-02-01] Reference
When a player pitches the potsherd into the wrong division or on a line, he is out. From Wordnik.com. [Healthful Sports for Boys] Reference
Second, it seems to me fairly odd that someone would write moral laws on a potsherd. From Wordnik.com. [Linguistics and the Dating of Texts] Reference
He dropped the potsherd clinking into the right-hand bowl, and the people cheered again. From Wordnik.com. [The King Must Die]
And the final outcome was far more disturbing than any last-minute discovery of a potsherd or hearth. From Wordnik.com. [Break No Bones]
The potsherd of the earth may strive with the potsherd, but woe to the man that strives with his Maker. From Wordnik.com. [The Wesleyan Methodist Pulpit in Malvern Sermons Preached at the Opening Services of the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, in 1866] Reference
"Let the potsherd contend with the potsherds of the earth; but woe unto him that contends with his Maker!". From Wordnik.com. [The Sermons of John Owen] Reference
Further, the expression, ` My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue has cleaved to my throat, 'was. From Wordnik.com. [ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus] Reference
But this is esteemed a vile thing amongst men, though it is but one potsherd of the earth boasting itself against another. From Wordnik.com. [Pneumatologia] Reference
Left, Schalk (BLM law enforcement ranger) examining a potsherd at a site in the California Desert in 1978 while on patrol. From Wordnik.com. [Riding for the Brand] Reference
After choosing who shall be first, second, etc., the player stands at taw and tosses the potsherd into division number one. From Wordnik.com. [Healthful Sports for Boys] Reference
My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; and thou has brought me into the dust of death. From Wordnik.com. [Empire of Dreams] Reference
My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death. From Wordnik.com. [Psalms 22.] Reference
My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue has cleaved to my throat; and Thou hast brought me into the dust of death. From Wordnik.com. [ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus] Reference
My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue hath cleaved to my jaws: and thou hast brought me down into the dust of death. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 21: Psalms The Challoner Revision] Reference
"You had no faith" said she "if you had believed, the animals would not have turned into the clod and the potsherd and the charcoal.". From Wordnik.com. [Folklore of the Santal Parganas] Reference
From the cess-pool, it re-constitutes the city; from mud, it reconstructs manners; from the potsherd it infers the amphora or the jug. From Wordnik.com. [Les Miserables] Reference
Bowls and potsherd with figures of birds from Sikyatki 692. From Wordnik.com. [Archeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895 Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895-1896, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1898, pages 519-744] Reference
And we cry with the Psalmist, 'My strength is dried up like a potsherd.'. From Wordnik.com. [Chivalry] Reference
Shall the potsherd say to his frail fellow, Thou art weak, but I am strong?. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Cringle's Log] Reference
What a height it is from the lofty roofs from which a potsherd tumbles on your brains. From Wordnik.com. [The Battle with the Slum] Reference
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