Then he pulled at it and found therein potsherds and broken glass; whereupon he began to speak these verses: —.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference

Fragments of pottery, called potsherds, are one of the most-common finds discovered on archaeological sites.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Daily News - News] Reference

Little Colorado River potsherds beneath its floor.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Material Culture of Pueblo Bonito] Reference

Even in this we turned up several glazed potsherds.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 6, 1921] Reference

Test 1 they recovered 3,593 potsherds; from Test 2, 2,934.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Architecture of Pueblo Bonito :] Reference

Experimental pottery kilns constructed of potsherds and mud.    From Wordnik.com.  [Interactive Dig Hierakonpolis - Hierakonpolis 2007 - Field Note 1] Reference

And he dwelt in the mountain Hares, that is, of potsherds, in.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 07: Judges The Challoner Revision] Reference

The quantity of potsherds scattered about the ruins is noticeably small.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aboriginal Remains in Verde Valley, Arizona Thirteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1891-92, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1896, pages 179-262] Reference

Page view page image: of the deliberate rubbish pile than potsherds alone.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Material Culture of Pueblo Bonito] Reference

Look all over the top for potsherds, to find the latest period of the town.    From Wordnik.com.  [How to Observe in Archaeology] Reference

Priscilla Winthrop went home to a broken shrine to sit among the the potsherds.    From Wordnik.com.  [Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day] Reference

If Job'd ha 'lived with him, he'd ha' broke his head with one of his potsherds. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [Despair's Last Journey] Reference

Therefore potsherds served as evidence both of material progress and passing time.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Material Culture of Pueblo Bonito] Reference

Of 1,830 potsherds recovered during excavation of Kiva A, 22.6 percent were Chaco-San.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Architecture of Pueblo Bonito :] Reference

Numbered paper tags mark each find -- scraps of corroded bronze, potsherds, human teeth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dig Like a Surgeon] Reference

"And potsherds are things with those Chinese laundry ticket scratches on them," added Tom.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tom Swift in the Land of Wonders, or, the Underground Search for the Idol of Gold] Reference

Here they sorted, counted at least twice, and classified an estimated 2,000,000 potsherds.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Architecture of Pueblo Bonito :] Reference

But now again to the point: for if we fall among the potsherds we shall hobble on but lamely.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 328, February, 1843] Reference

"Let the potsherds strive wi 'th' potsherds; but woe to th 'mon that strives wi' his Maker."'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lancashire Idylls (1898)] Reference

We have found some potsherds near the surface, and some crude implements of stone lower down.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Magyar Venus]

Pitt is a powerful man, and he alone keeps them together; without him they would be potsherds.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 337, November, 1843] Reference

He'd never risk his life for something as unglamorous as a scatter of potsherds or stone artifacts.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Archaeologist Whips Indy] Reference

At the far end of the causeway was a plot of level ground, strewn with potsherds and heaps of refuse.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life and sport in China Second Edition] Reference

Like words, however, potsherds enlighten us more about frontiers and contrasts than about uniformities.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Unity of Civilization] Reference

"Let the potsherds strive with the potsherds of the earth; woe unto him that contendeth with his Maker!".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sermons of John Owen] 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

The quantity of these potsherds is quite small, and they occur mainly in the refuse heaps on the mesa edge.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Study of Pueblo Architecture: Tusayan and Cibola Eighth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1886-1887, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 3-228] Reference

Ge-Hinnom was the "valley of the son of Hinnom, which is by the entry of the gate of potsherds, called Tophet.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories of the Prophets (Before the Exile)] Reference

The vats are often lined with cement containing datable potsherds, and are sometimes paved with mosaic tesserae.    From Wordnik.com.  [How to Observe in Archaeology] Reference

Most of the potsherds belong to large amphorae used to carry such commodities as wine, salt fish, and olive oil.    From Wordnik.com.  [Roman Trade With the Canary Islands] Reference

Monroe Amsden in 1925 sorted and analyzed vast quantities of potsherds from excavated rooms and exploratory tests at both Pueblo.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pueblo Del Arroyo, Chaco Canyon, New Mexico] Reference

As for weights, the stall-holders would appear to have none but stones, whelk shells, and potsherds, which must be hard to regulate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Southern Arabia] Reference

In the chambers among the overhanging cliffs a great many interesting relics were found, of stone, bone, and wood, and many potsherds.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aboriginal Remains in Verde Valley, Arizona Thirteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1891-92, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1896, pages 179-262] Reference

I gathered an assortment of potsherds that includes both San Juan and Tularosa black-on-white, Little Colorado polychrome, and ancestral.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Material Culture of Pueblo Bonito] Reference

Stone artifacts and potsherds studied in the field were left at the ruin, reburied as protection against the ubiquitous curio collector.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Material Culture of Pueblo Bonito] Reference