Sentences with phrase «sits on a clay»

The Capital Region largely sits on clay and silt deposited by a lake that swallowed the area during the last Ice Age, said Andrew Kozlowski, an associate state geologist at the State Museum and director of the state Geologic Mapping Program.

I do keep one large, three wicked candle, and it sits on a clay plate that a friend made.

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In the evening after the cows were milked, he would sit on a large flat stone outside the stable door and smoke a stained clay pipe.

I don't spend an early pick on someone that sits locked in a safe marked do not open until Brown is gone or Staley retires, and who is all clay and not much proof.

But Clay wouldn't sit; he was too busy running around and bellowing, «The beast is on the run!»

The import of other artifacts is less obvious: a stuffed porcupine that sits on Freud's desk, beside a solitary pair of round - framed glasses; a wooden Egyptian funerary boat, mounted fore and aft by bird heads and carrying a small wrapped mummy attended by three seated women; a row of stone knives laid upon a table; and a bearded goat head made of clay.

It occurred to me as I sat researching the sebaceous glands one night with a bentonite clay face mask on that perhaps my face mask was the answer to the armpit question as well.

Speedback, the new luxury British sports car made by David Brown Automotive sits in front of it's concept clay model on March 20, 2014 in Coventry, England.

Lukewarm tea sat in a squat clay cup on one of the dark wooden tables, the leaves sunk to the bottom like broken lilies given up on light.

A great grandson of Henry Clay Frick, Blanchard sits on the boards of the Frick Collection, the Orion Society and Maine Coast Heritage Trust.

Joan assessed the crowd, lighting upon the most interesting: young men turning white T - shirts into art, pinching the material tight and rubber - banding each section until they looked like porcupines being dipped into huge steaming vats of colored dyes; the young woman with a bird's nest of purple hair sitting at a potter's wheel, slamming down hunks of clay, her hands moving nearly as fast as the wheel, cups, vases, plates, bowls, trays, appearing like magic; the elderly man in a worn blue linen suit, a jaunty straw boater on his head, a smeared palette tight in his hand, painting a mammoth canvas of people on a beach staring out at an ocean where a sailboat bobbed in the distance, though he himself was standing in a mowed field; the handsome young man at an old - fashioned school desk, a manual typewriter in front of him, a stack of paper to the side.

You might think your cat has plenty of toys and seems relaxed and well - adjusted but reality is that the cat's natural environment of living in the forest and hunting / eating mice regularly throughout the day is a far cry from sitting on a sofa, eating processed foods, and eliminating waste in a plastic box filled with clay.

The Healing Waters Spa sits within one of the world's oldest living rainforests, and features treatments that draw on native clays, plant essences and herbal extracts.

On the floor sits a kiln - shaped chunk of clay out of which have emerged, as it seems, dough balls, cannonballs and even curious heads, as if the clay had given birth (how did he scoop them out?).

the series of sculptural vintage furniture pieces are initially formed in clay and sat on, walked over or pushed into by the artist's own body, deforming their original shape.

Against the buoyancy of Stave's shimmering lines and delicate floating geometries, Merz has placed a fleshy slab of clay with a radiant face of gold atop a curved, steel plinth that sits unceremoniously on the floor.

For the exhibition Gates designs and creates 50 original plank - shaped clay plates that function both as dinner plates for a previously staged and video taped sit - down dinner, as well as sculptural pieces hung on the wall for the exhibition's installation.

District Clay also offers its students the most liberal Open Studio program of any area ceramic studio by allowing its students to sit on other classes as well as the Sunday Free Studio at no charge.

The thick, black triangle sticks out and rises above the surface, and the piece sits atop sea - green colored clay on a block of white wood.

Fourth, the glaciers sat on a fine - grained layer of siltstone and clay that became extremely slippery.