"Porcelain" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... relates that on the arrival of a train bringing wounded Senegalese riflemen nearly all were found smoking furiously from long porcelain pipes taken from the enemy and seemingly indifferent to their wounds. One gayly told of the daring capture of a machine gun by eighteen of his comrades. The gun, he said, was brought up by a detachment of German dragoons and the Senegalese bravely ...
— America's War for Humanity • Thomas Herbert Russell
... fine and wild romantic scenery, each turn of the road bringing us to some new point of view. We passed a beautiful waterfall, the bottom and sides of which appeared as if composed of glass or porcelain; it consisted of a number of steps rising up the sides of the hill. These, my friend told me, were incrustations which had formed themselves over the roots of trees growing on either side. The water came flowing down over them, transparent as ...
— Paddy Finn • W. H. G. Kingston
... Poetical, I would the gods had made thee Poets in three distant ages —intellible forms of Pole, true as the needle to the Pomp, take physic —, lick absurd Poor always ye have —, simple annals of the —, laws grind the Pope of Rome, more than the Poppies, pleasures are like Poppy nor mandragora Porcelain clay of humankind Porcupine, like quills upon the fretful Pot, death in the Poverty, not my will, consents —, steep me in —, depressed, slow rises worth by Power, take, who have the Powers that be, ordained of ...
— Familiar Quotations • Various
... mum; blacking; brass manufactures; brass (powder of); brocade of gold or silver; bronze (manufactures of); bronze-powder; buck-wheat: butter; buttons; candles; canes; carriages of all sorts; casks; cassiva-powder; catlings; cheese; china or porcelain; cider; citron; clocks; copper manufactures; copper or brass wire; cotton; crayons; crystal (cut and manufactured); cucumbers; fish; gauze of thread; hair, manufactures of hair or goats' wool, &c.; ...
— The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. - From George III. to Victoria • E. Farr and E. H. Nolan
... back at home, she began her little Sunday duties: the lace-pillow was put away that day and she did nothing but arrange things, put things in their places, gather a fresh nosegay for the porcelain vase before Our Lady's statue and see to her cooking. She picked the withered leaves from the geraniums, bound the branches of the phlox to the trellis and gave them fresh water from a little flowered can. She was specially fond of her little pot of musk: it stood on the window-seat, ...
— The Path of Life • Stijn Streuvels
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