Part of the reason for doing some of the work with terracotta is that I am guessing that it is less expensive and partly for the privacy. From Wordnik.com. [privacy/terracotta work] Reference
Joel Velasco Lara's family interprets the China Poblana in terracotta. From Wordnik.com. [Joel Velasco Lara's family interprets the China Poblana in terracotta. The low cut embroidered blouse, full skirt, white petticoat and shawl are attributed to Catarina de San Juan, a Hindu princess who was kidnapped by pirates, sold into slavery, and who lived in Puebla in the 1600s. © Arden Aibel Rothstein and Anya Leah Rothstein, 2007] Reference
I call the terracotta planter!. From Wordnik.com. [WEEKEND: HOTEL FOR DOGS VS. MALL COP] Reference
I came to screeching holt (I drive a red Alfa if anyone was behind me) a sea of red "terracotta" roofs hit me right where it hurts. From Wordnik.com. [Muti] Reference
I'm really surprised that terracotta pots came up. From Wordnik.com. [wilberteets Diary Entry] Reference
In the terracotta dust I was spun upward into the air. From Wordnik.com. [Middlesex]
We note first the change from terracotta to a low painted. From Wordnik.com. [The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1] Reference
She grinned and gestured at the ivy-filled terracotta pots. From Wordnik.com. [No Laughing Matter]
Those talavera tiles are just terracotta and this what I get. From Wordnik.com. [Gibbs To Be White House Press Secretary] Reference
I'm going to have to come visit now with your terracotta floors. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 16, 2008] Reference
To the west the baked terracotta terrain of the running borderlands. From Wordnik.com. [No Country For Old Men]
Anyway that Chinese funereal terracotta bird shouldn't be glazed, Chris. '. From Wordnik.com. [The Vatican Rip]
Each contingent wore terracotta berets and used white helicopters or vehicles. From Wordnik.com. [FM 7-98 Chapter 4 - Peacekeeping]
The terracotta was set in a nook by the stairs at the end of the enormous hall. From Wordnik.com. [The Great California Game]
My pencil torch revealed scores of small terracotta figurines staring back at me. From Wordnik.com. [The Vatican Rip]
The gargoyles also, which later were always of stone, were originally of terracotta. From Wordnik.com. [The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1] Reference
We also watched a neat program about the terracotta army from the first Chin Dynasty. From Wordnik.com. [Vaughan Mini Trip] Reference
Another important argument is furnished by the certain use of terracotta plates as acroteria. From Wordnik.com. [The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1] Reference
'You should only dust terracotta figures,' I told him as he reeled back aghast and squealing. From Wordnik.com. [The Vatican Rip]
A vivid and colorful terracotta city, green with trees and grasses where the space permitted. From Wordnik.com. [The First Man in Rome]
It seems surprising that such a terracotta sheathing should be applied on a structure of stone. From Wordnik.com. [The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1] Reference
It is interesting also to find relief-work in terracotta as well as painting on a plane surface. From Wordnik.com. [The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1] Reference
On these lower floors, behind braces of scaffolding, the restored terracotta gleams like new teeth. From Wordnik.com. [Land of the Blind]
The Helios had a porch with a colourful terracotta architrave, but that was its only gesture to graciousness. From Wordnik.com. [See Delphi and Die]
She glanced back across the sloping lawn and the terracotta walkway to the man who was, then, staring back at her. From Wordnik.com. [Trust Walk] Reference
At the bottom of the terrace there was a terracotta pool, where water flowers were drifting on their flat green pads. From Wordnik.com. [The 1926 Tatler] Reference
The terracotta panels along the entrance front, over the principal floor windows, were designed by Mr. Boehm himself. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 299, September 24, 1881] Reference
Museum are some 50,000 inscribed pieces of terracotta or clay-tablets, forming the libraries of Assyria and Babylonia. From Wordnik.com. [The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1] Reference
That is, the original material of the acroteria was the same used in the whole covering of the roof, namely terracotta. From Wordnik.com. [The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1] Reference
MOOS: Joining the Obama-bilia, from the Barack in the box, to condoms, you can now place your order for the terracotta Obama. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 23, 2009] Reference
Urban anthropologist Eric Lynxwiler says the four-story lavender terracotta building may have been a residence for single women. From Wordnik.com. [LAPD To Sort Out Discovered Infant Skeletons] Reference
In the Marche there is a series of terracotta altarpieces attributed to Pietro Paolo Agabiti, a local painter of the XVI century. From Wordnik.com. [The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1] Reference
To prove it, I commented on its fine painted terracotta acroterion, one of the largest and most handsome roof finials I had ever seen. From Wordnik.com. [See Delphi and Die]
After a dinner of lomo, or pork loin, we retired to our room – all terracotta walls, bright tiled floors and beautiful high ceilings. From Wordnik.com. [Trans-Iberian: cycling Spain's ancient Via de la Plata] Reference
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