Clay

(noun.) United States politician responsible for the Missouri Compromise between free and slave states (1777-1852).

(noun.) United States general who commanded United States forces in Europe from 1945 to 1949 and who oversaw the Berlin airlift (1897-1978).

(noun.) a very fine-grained soil that is plastic when moist but hard when fired.

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• It was a clay pipe, and its colour was reddish. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• Not only this, but on the table I found a small ball of black dough or clay, with specks of something which looks like sawdust in it. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• Why, I suppose so from the colour of the clay upon your bag and on your dress. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• The lime was added as a flux, and acted to unite with itself the sand, clay and other impurities to form a slag or scoria. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• A little cup is then fastened to the tree with a piece of soft clay to press the cup against it, and the juice runs into this cup. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Although they had clay available, and although there are several Pal?olithic clay figures on record, they had _no pottery_. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• In some the pug mill is arranged horizontally to feed out the clay in the form of a long horizontal slab, which is cut up into proper lengths to form the bricks. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• After all, Watson, said Holmes, reaching up his hand for his clay pipe, I am not retained by the police to supply their deficiencies. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• On the palm were three little pyramids of black, doughy clay. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• The outsides of the buildings somewhat resembled the cement houses which have been put up in later days, a coat of clay being spread on the outside walls and carefully smoothed off. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• After trying all known methods to get through, it was decided to bake this wet clay by means of intense heat. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• The method was no doubt suggested to Clay's ingenious mind by the colour of his accomplice's hair. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• Finely pulverized common clay, well mixed with Spanish white, makes reddish stone color. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
• Later I went to work--imprinted the stamp on clay bottles, before they were baked. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• Odd vases made by his own hand from the clay of the region held beautiful tropical flowers. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.

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