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Sentences starting with clay

Clay and Washington were the same loving and admiring brothers now that they had always been. [5]
Clay and Webster were dead before this question arose; by what authority shall our Senator say they would espouse his side of it if alive? [7]
Clay remained at home several days. [5]
Clay and Webster each gave a son, never to be returned. [7]

Sentences ending with clay

And so you wouldn't even part with Clay? [5]
Why--why was it so difficult to shake off this burthen of mortal clay? [10]
It was the shock of the heavy Indian falling on Polly Ann and me as we cowered under the trunk, and even then there was an instant that we stood gazing at him as at a worm writhing in the clay. [9]
Our country is prosperous and powerful; but could it have been quite all it has been, and is, and is to be, without Henry Clay? [7]
In one corner, near a stone water-jar, lay a large, damp, shining mass of clay. [10]
I rough out my thoughts in talk as an artist models in clay. [6]
Cambyses, meanwhile, was miserably restless, inwardly cursed his habit of drinking and tasted no wine the whole of that clay. [10]
Finally he was invited to write his answer on the other side of the square of clay. [10]
They were set in the face like little round glow worms in a mould of clay. [11]
A waiting carrion from her vantage point on high marked one spot then another where the blue ants disappeared, and again one by one came out of the burrow to hurry down the trench,--each with his ball of clay. [9]

Short sentences using clay

Henry Clay Hawkins, millionaire! [5]
But Henry Clay is dead. [7]

Sentences containing clay two or more times

It so happens that in that "popular sovereignty" with which Mr. Clay was identified, the Missouri Compromise was expressly reversed; and it was a little singular if Mr. Clay cast his mantle upon Judge Douglas on purpose to have that compromise repealed. [7]
When Pollux had eaten his breakfast he went to his table exactly as he had done the clay before; but the sight of the work in hand had quite a different effect to the mere raw clay and wax. [10]
He eulogized Mr. Clay in high and beautiful terms, and then declared that we had deserted all our principles, and had turned Henry Clay out, like an old horse, to root. [7]
Now, while I am upon this subject, and as Henry Clay has been alluded to, I desire to place myself, in connection with Mr. Clay, as nearly right before this people as may be. [7]

More example sentences with the word clay in them

In his twenty-third year Mr. Clay was licensed to practise law, and emigrated to Lexington, Kentucky. [7]
Judge Hawkins had written and asked Clay to return home and consult with him upon family affairs. [5]
But when the wrapper was taken off the clay figures, he uttered a low snarl, and his flushed face turned pale. [10]
Mr. Clay, though worn down and exhausted, was appealed to by members to renew his efforts at compromise. [7]
They were covered with clay and candle-grease. [5]
Then they looked wistfully up at the pilot house, and finally, little by little, Clay ventured up there, followed diffidently by Washington. [5]
This evening I will bring in a lump of clay and a good piece of modelling wax. [10]
The clay Eros, who with bent knee was aiming at a victim visible to himself alone, was also his work. [10]
Behold the clay which conducted you hither, with the heart neatly but painfully extracted. [9]
The clay, still wet, clung to the same board as the figure of the soldier, modeled by the same hand. [10]
She was like wet clay on which even the light touch of a butterfly leaves a mark, her sister like a mirror from which the breath that has dimmed it instantly and entirely vanishes. [10]
Only the miners were there, with their breeches tucked into their boottops and with clay all over them. [5]
How pinched they were perhaps no one knew but Clay, to whom they looked for almost their whole support. [5]
She knew the way without a guide to the spring from which Paulus had brought her water at their first meeting, and she now slipped away, and went down to it with a pretty little pitcher of burnt clay in her hand. [10]
I made my way down to the water-side, where Jake Landrasse sat alone on the gunwale of a Kentucky boat, smoking a clay pipe as he fished. [9]
Instead of using wax he had recourse to clay, and formed a tall figure which represented Antinous as the youthful Bacchus, as the god might have appeared to the pirates. [10]
Mr. Clay therefore was of a party. [7]
Above all, there was a sculptor's revolving stand, supporting a bust which Beaton was modelling, with an eye fixed as simultaneously as possible on the clay and on the head of the old man who sat on the platform beside it. [8]
He even gave us a bit of clay to shape. [10]
The pigeon-house, built up of clay pots and Nile-mud, stood on the top of the storehouse, which lay adjoining the southern boundary wall of the temple. [10]
A woman was up and about, but the man was still asleep, on a straw shake-down, on the clay floor. [5]
Henry Clay plainly understood the contrary. [7]
The sandy path, trodden by their naked feet, gave no sound, the mountains seemed to withhold their shade, the light of clay was a torment--every thing far and near seemed inimical to the living. [10]
You have but to speak the word, and the finest clay shall be ready on your modeling-table by to-morrow, either here or in Glaukias's work-room, which is indeed your own. [10]
I'm either up to my knees in grass or clay fighting Revolutionists, or I'm riding hard day and night till I'm round-backed like a wood-louse, to make up for all the good time I so badly lost in your little island. [11]
Henry Clay belonged to his country--to the world; mere party cannot claim men like him. [7]
The rock seems to be a clay formation, rotten and colored. [4]
He made a tiny toy squirrel out of clay, and it ran up a tree and sat on a limb overhead and barked down at us. [5]
Keokuk, a long time ago, was an occasional loafing-place of that erratic genius, Henry Clay Dean. [5]
Mr. Clay says this was one of the great and just causes of complaint against Great Britain by the Colonies, and the best apology we can now make for having the institution amongst us. [7]
Not long before this I had listened to a wonderful sermon by Dr. Chalmers, whose force, and energy, and vehement, but rather turgid eloquence carried, for the moment, all before them,--his audience becoming like clay in the hands of the potter. [6]
It struck him there was a dull fire in his heart a great deal like it; and he worked out a fanciful analogy with the coals, still alive, and the ashes creeping over them, and the dead clay and cinders. [8]
No one of them is very uncommon; but all together are rarely combined in a single individual, and this is probably the reason why such men as Henry Clay are so rare in the world. [7]
Having ridden beyond the village, continually meeting and overtaking soldiers and officers of various regiments, they saw on their left some entrenchments being thrown up, the freshly dug clay of which showed up red. [2]
And Clay, he--Oh, the po' motherless thing--I cain't talk abort it--I cain't bear to talk about it. [5]
Mr. Clay was the leading spirit in making the Missouri Compromise; is it very credible that if now alive he would take the lead in the breaking of it? [7]
I hastily placed the lamps, took the clay in my hand, and feature by feature I brought forth with bitter joy the image that is deeply graven in my heart, believing that thus I might be released from the spell. [10]
Close beside it the Israelites had erected on a tall wooden pillar a clay image of the Egyptian god Seth, which one of his Hebrew worshippers had brought with him to protect himself and his family. [10]
He showed Huck the fragment of candle-wick perched on a lump of clay against the wall, and described how he and Becky had watched the flame struggle and expire. [5]
At noon on the following clay, Bartja, accompanied by his friends and a troop of attendants, started on horseback for the frontier. [10]
When Plutarch conducted the Emperor and his friends to see the Bacchus Antinous, which Pollux had completed in the clay, Hadrian was deeply struck and wished to know the name of the master who had executed this noble work of art. [10]
At that time the distinguished physician had even succeeded in getting the Honourable Council to defray the cost of having the walls newly white washed and fresh clay stamped on the floor. [10]
Antyllus's bouquet, and the damage to the clay statue of Eros, had played a prominent part in the conversation between the three, and rendered Archibius's task easier. [10]
They were as the clay and the brass. [9]
The object in the body and the heating apparatus is the same; to increase the extent of surface.--We mix hair with plaster (as the Egyptians mixed straw with clay to make bricks) so that it shall hold more firmly. [6]
This it is that truly touches the chords of sympathy; and those who heard Mr. Clay never failed to be moved by it, or ever afterward forgot the impression. [7]
It is said that the lamp of love can illumine into beauty any features of clay through which it shines. [4]
The truth is that some support from Whigs is now a necessity with the Judge, and for this it is that the names of Clay and Webster are invoked. [7]
Smith's attitude was that of a priest who puts up for the worship of the vulgar an idol, which he knows is only a clay image stuffed with straw. [4]
An hour after supper the moon came up, and Clay and Washington ascended to the hurricane deck to revel again in their new realm of enchantment. [5]
And if to such a consummation the efforts of Mr. Clay shall have contributed, it will be what he most ardently wished, and none of his labors will have been more valuable to his country and his kind. [7]
She saw him strike with his spurs, and in a twinkling horse and rider had passed over the dilapidated remains of a fence and were flying down the hard clay road, disappearing into a dip. [9]
Those sad gums stood up out of the dry white clay, pictures of patience and resignation. [5]
In the background stood a clay model of an Apollo of admirable workmanship; above, and near this, the wall was hung with lutes and lyres of various size and form. [10]
Signs and scars still remain, as reminders of Vicksburg's tremendous war experiences; earthworks, trees crippled by the cannon balls, cave- refuges in the clay precipices, etc. [5]
But there they stayed, scooping out the yellow clay with torn hands, while the Parrotts, with lowered muzzles, ploughed the slope with shells. [9]
Several battalions of soldiers, in their shirt sleeves despite the cold wind, swarmed in these earthworks like a host of white ants; spadefuls of red clay were continually being thrown up from behind the bank by unseen hands. [2]
I want to say that in sometimes alluding to the Declaration of Independence, I have only uttered the sentiments that Henry Clay used to hold. [7]
The bottom is round, the top flares into four comers, and the rim is rudely but rather artistically ornamented with criss-cross scratches made when the clay was soft. [4]
This circumstance gave rise to the fable that, during the terrible storm of the previous clay, Hades had opened and spirits of darkness had rushed into the studio of the Greek betrayer. [10]
We begin to respect ourselves the more, and to realize that they are merely clay like us, that we are great men without Opportunity. [9]
Mrs. Hawkins was prostrated by this last blow, and it was well that Clay was at her side to stay her with comforting words and take upon himself the ordering of the household with its burden of labors and cares. [5]
In the effective power to move the heart of man, Clay was without an equal, and the heaven-born endowment, in the spirit of its origin, has been most conspicuously exhibited against intestine feud. [7]
There the happy playmates built houses or boats; there, in a separate room, old Melampus modelled figure-heads for the finished vessels, and he would supply them with clay and let them model too. [10]
He brings forward part of a speech from Henry Clay,--the part of the speech of Henry Clay which I used to bring forward to prove precisely the contrary. [7]
At Swansea Clay paid his stage fare, stowed him away in the vehicle, and saw him off. [5]
He made birds out of clay and set them free, and they flew away, singing. [5]
But you, Els--if our Lord would permit me to fashion out of divine clay a life companion after my own heart, do you know how she would look? [10]
Or is it only clay, Bleeding and aching in the potter's hand, Yet all his own to treat it as he will And when he will to cast it at his feet, Shattered, dishonored, lost forevermore? [6]
He had taken one out of the pack he had got from Captain Sevier and pushed it between the logs where the clay had fallen out. [9]
Get possession of one of the canopi, [Vases of clay, limestone, or alabaster, which were used for the preservation of the intestines of the embalmed Egyptians, and represented the four genii of death, Amset, Hapi, Tuamutef, and Khebsennuf. [10]
I visited the old house on Witch Hill in Salem a year or two ago, and there I found the walls coated with clay in which straw was abundantly mingled;--the old Judaizing witch-hangers copied the Israelites in a good many things. [3]
But on top of it was reared a crude wooden dome, like a clay head on a marble statue. [9]
Are ministers composed of finer clay than the rest of mankind, that entitles them to this preeminence? [6]
The question, being now fully before Congress, came up in a variety of ways in rapid succession, on most of which occasions Mr. Clay spoke. [7]
But all was not yet lost, and his sunny nature read in the glow of the dying clay the promise and dawn of a brilliant morrow. [10]
The struggle did not last long, for Paaker seemed to shrink up, and lost his human form, and fell at the poet's feet--not my son, but a shapeless lump of clay such as the potter uses to make jars of. [10]
Mr. Clay, though not its projector, was one of its earliest members; and he died, as for many preceding years he had been, its president. [7]
But he could not find it, and exclaimed with surprise: "How damp and cold it is--this is clay, and our jar was a gourd. [10]
But in not nominating Mr. Clay we deserted our principles, you say. [7]
The election of Mr. Polk as the opponent of Henry Clay gives him a discouraged feeling about our institutions. [6]
The manes of Mr. Clay must have been in great agony till thirty days later, when "popular sovereignty" stood forth in all its glory. [7]
Even in the morning, while the physician permitted her to remain in the open air because the clay was hot and still, the bridal procession was continually in her thoughts. [10]
By Mr. Clay more than any other man the struggle was brought to a decision in Congress. [7]
If Alexander and Melissa had crossed this vast square, where it was now as light as clay, they would certainly have been seen, and Melissa would have brought not herself only but her protectress also into the greatest danger. [10]
The vessel is made of clay not found about here, and it is one that the Indians formerly living here could not form. [4]
She called Euphorion, made him throw the clay into the court-yard and place the model on the table by the side of the wax. [10]
Must every coral-insect leave his sign On each poor grain he lent to build the reef, As Babel's builders stamped their sunburnt clay, Or deem his patient service all in vain? [6]
Pretty straw mats lay on the floor, and pots of plants, filling the little room with fragrance, stood on the window-sill and in a corner of the room where a clay statuette of the Good Shepherd looked down on a praying-desk. [10]
After a rain its swollen waters were turbid, opaque yellow-red with the clay of the hills; at other times it ran smoothly, temperately, almost clear between the pasture grasses and wild flowers. [9]
Mr. Clay says it is true as an abstract principle that all men are created equal, but that we cannot practically apply it in all eases. [7]
Most true it is, that we are over-ruled by One above us; that in His hands our very will is as clay in the hands of the potter. [14]
Finally, the Judge invokes against me the memory of Clay and Webster, They were great men, and men of great deeds. [7]
Then he humbly inquired as to the clay figure of which Caesar was speaking, and Caracalla referred him to Zminis. [10]
Something I find in me that well might claim The love of beings in a sphere above This doubtful twilight world of right and wrong; Something that shows me of the self-same clay That creeps or swims or flies in humblest form. [6]
She had succeeded in getting him clay, wax, and tools for the purpose. [10]
It was finished in clay, and accepted in October, 1886, put in plaster, and immediately sent to the foundry of Melzar Masman in Chicopee, Massachusetts. [4]
This was the immortal Aphrodite, cradled in bliss in the pure radiance of the ideal world and yet unable to free herself from the gross clay of matter fouled by sensuality and the vehicle of sin. [10]
The first thing I hear of him is that he's digging holes in the clay of Chickasaw Bluff, and his cap is fanned off by the blast of a Parrott six feet above his head. [9]
One morning, as Honora was starting out for her lonely walk--that usually led her to the bare clay banks of the great river--she ran across her neighbour on the sidewalk. [9]

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