1213 examples of pottered in sentences

But neither he nor I had gifted eyes to see those symbols of common things glorified, such as the prophets saw them in that sunset,the wheel, the potter's clay, the washpot, the wine-press, the almond-tree rod, the baskets of figs, the four-fold-visaged head, the throne, and Him that sat thereon.

While he pottered with his fire he looked more than once at the sky in the south-west.

The child scratched and pottered among the ashes for its pig, which at last it found.

So he and the other duffer pottered away, leaving the coast clear and the door wide open.

The doctor, in speaking of the sovereignty of God, had alluded to the similitude of the potter and his clay; for his Lordship said, if he were broken in pieces, he would say to the potter, "Why do you treat me thus?"

The doctor, in speaking of the sovereignty of God, had alluded to the similitude of the potter and his clay; for his Lordship said, if he were broken in pieces, he would say to the potter, "Why do you treat me thus?"

I pottered about a bit, unpacking my own belongings, and putting things straight generally.

He pottered a while longer among the books and cards, but they were meaningless.

A man of your pounds would be a fool to undertake the journey; but if you will be such a fool, you must go without the company of Your terrestrial friend, PAUL POTTER.

I've got an errand at the garage anyhow, as my dad wants a mechanic sent up to potter at his little runabout, out of commission as usual.

Uncle Sivert was an old man now, over seventy; he was something of an invalid, and pottered about half-dressed in the house, and often kept his bed for a time.

He pottered about, doingdoingoh, anything, for an hour or more; then suddenly he leaped on his pony and raced madly down the trail on the track of the stranger.

And then the three went out, while I lit a cigar and pottered about Carson's library.

An apprenticeship of six years at the bench would have made an educated workman of him: as it was, he pottered at every mechanical pursuit as a gentleman amateur in a laboratory and workshop which he had got built for himself in his park.

He was not content merely to be a "looker on in Vienna," or in Utica; he pottered around unceasingly, hobnobbed with Oldfield (who now began to take the liveliest interest in the play), and suggested several alterations in the text.

By Raleigh Schorling, John R. Clark & Mary A. Potter.

Marie O. Schorling (W), John R. Clark & Mary A. Potter (A); 8Dec69; R474446.

By Philip J. Potter.

Philip J. Potter (A); 6Sep77; R670982. R670988. Unions and capitalism.

A slow, quiet man, of little or no education, he pottered about and looked after things in general.

He worked on, and pottered round the garden, and watched the young green plums swelling on his trees, and did a bit of gleaning, and thought the wheat would weigh bad when it was threshed out.

They pottered round tryin' to find some trace of Foyblind fools!till I met up with 'em.

Dolly fell into very quiet ways, and would sit still for hours together, her arm around Beppo, and her sweet, patient little face, which was growing thin and hollow, turned towards the flickering light of the fire, while Oliver pottered toilsomely about his house, forgetting many things, but always ready with a smile and a fond word for his grand-daughter.

He pottered, but thought deeply all the time; and when I used to watch him plucking at his gray beard, I realized that he was just as busy as if his pen had been plucking at his paper.

Here an old maid, his first cousin, received Grace with rapture, and Hope pottered about all day, reviving his boyish recollections of people and places.

1213 examples of  pottered  in sentences