Business owners no longer need to press shapes
into lumps of clay ready to be baked but other than the writing method, the way those transactions are recorded have changed little.
Not exact matches
Lumps of clay are shaped
into a vessel.
We appreciate the human brain more than we do a
lump of clay because the brain integrates
into an intense unity an incredible complexity, nuance, richness and novelty.
(11) Man We did create from a quintessence (
of clay); (12) Then We placed him as (a drop
of) sperm in a place
of rest firmly fixed; (13) Then We made the sperm
into a clot
of congealed blood; then
of that clot We made a (foetus)
lump; then We made out
of that
lump bones and clothed the bones with flesh; then We developed out
of it another creature: so blessed be Allah, the Best to create!
«A little later, he preached on the creation
of man and, desiring to be as graphic and plain as possible, he said: «When God Almighty had; made heaven and earth, he rolled in one a
lump of clay and fashioned it
into the likeness
of a man and then leaned it on a fence to harden.»
The addition
of compost, or other organic material such as aged manure, clusters the small
clay particles
into lumps that will improve drainage and aeration and will make the soil easier to work and more friable (easily crumbled).
Those grandchildren needed my attention; I thought
of them like
lumps of clay, being molded
into adults.
The idea
of geological upheaval is still apparent in the rough surfaces and in the large jagged fissure left by the pole Fontana used when gouging
into the
lump of wet
clay.
What begins life as a mere
lump of clay, the artist molds and carves
into artworks that appear like arrays
of honeycomb, undulating coral, or dripping stalactites.
You take a
lump of clay and mold it
into something fun!