Not exact matches
Thus says the Holy One of Israel, «Because you despise this word, and trust (sic)
in oppression and perverseness... This iniquity shall be to you like a break
in a high wall... which is smashed so ruthlessly that among its fragments not a
sherd is found with which to take fire from the hearth, or to dip water out of the cistern!»
Here we see unknown writers
in the hills of ancient Judah, seated
in simple homes that from the point of view of our present - day luxury might be regarded as little better than hovels, surrounded with furnishings more bare and austere than those of a medieval monastery, equipped with simple reed pens and rolls of papyrus, or perhaps with broken
sherds of old pots, as they slowly indite
in awkward, ancient Hebrew characters, words that have run like fire and are potent at this distant day.
Thus says the Holy One of Israel, «Because you despise this word, and trust
in oppression and perverseness, and rely on them; therefore this iniquity shall be to you like a break
in a high wall, bulging out, and about to collapse, whose crash comes suddenly,
in an instant; and its breaking is like that of a potter's vessel which is smashed so ruthlessly that among its fragments not a
sherd is found with which to take fire from the hearth, or to dip up water out of the cistern.»
That's because the modern country has just laid claim to the most ancient evidence for winemaking
in Eurasia: wine - soaked pottery
sherds that push back the genesis of fermented grape beverages
in the region to nearly 8000 years ago.
In the new study, a team led by Wiktorowicz ground up a small portion of each of the pottery fragments (or
sherds), used detergent and other chemicals to dislodge any proteins stuck to them, and isolated and analyzed the protein fragments using various techniques.
Around the same era, ceramic
sherds tempered with charred plants including rice were found
in Shangshan, a Neolithic village
in the lower Yangtse Valley.
tl; dr (abbreviation for too long; didn't read) is an internet slang expression commonly used
in discussion forums as a shorthand response to previous TL dating of pottery
sherds and baked soil from the Xian Terracotta Army Site, Shaanxi Province, China
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Nearby,
sherds of Medieval German stoneware excavated from the mud of the City of London have faces inscribed
in them that recall Upritchard's totemic ceramic works.