potter

• [6] The articles made by the potter are ordinary circular vessels or gharas used for storing and collecting water, larger ones for keeping grain, flour and vegetables, and surahis or amphoras for drinking-water. —  The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India - Volume IV of IV Kumhar-Yemkala
• The nation was as passive as clay in the hands of the potter, and it is a circumstance of peculiar aggravation that a large part of the legislation I have recounted was a distinct violation of a solemn treaty. —  Twenty Years of Congress, Volume 2 (of 2) From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860
• The sight gave an added twist to the torture screw and he broke out again I've been nothing more than a bit of potter's clay, and the master potter--God help me!--is my own father! —  The Honorable Senator Sage-Brush
• He was a potter, and had modelled men out of the clay of the plains. —  History of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 3 (of 12)
• That was very shocking, too, for the potter is a low-caste man, and his donkey is worse. —  The Kipling Reader Selections from the Books of Rudyard Kipling

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