Which preposition to use with clay

of Occurrences 74%

One is inclined, from the great resemblance between them in composition and in the general character of the included fauna, to suspect that these may be organic formations, like the modern red clay of the Atlantic and Southern Sea, accumulations of the insoluble ashes of shelled creatures.

in Occurrences 61%

If they want bricks for their houses they can dig clay in the garden.

with Occurrences 20%

In a word, it would look exactly as vast tracts of the English, Scotch, and Irish lowlands must have looked before returning vegetation coated their dreary sands and clays with a layer of brown vegetable soil.

on Occurrences 18%

"The dredging in the red clay on the 13th of March was usually rich.

from Occurrences 16%

The powerful nobles regarded themselves as of wholly different clay from the hapless peasants whom they trampled under foot, serfs so ignorant, so brutalized by want, that they were often little better than the beasts with which they herded.

for Occurrences 14%

Where there is space out-of-doors and the children can find branches for huts, clay for pots, etc., the work is much easier for the teacher and more satisfactory.

at Occurrences 12%

He exchanged Foston-le-Clay at this time for a living in Somersetshire, of a beautiful and characteristic nameCombe Florey.

to Occurrences 11%

Proceeding from east to west, we have About 80 miles of volcanic mud and sand, " 350 " Globigerina ooze, " 1,050 " red clay, " 330 " Globigerina ooze, " 850 " red clay, " 40 " Globigerina ooze; giving a total of 1,900 miles of red clay to 720 miles of Globigerina ooze.

into Occurrences 11%

The bottom in these two soundings might have been called 'grey ooze,' for although its nature has altered entirely from the Globigerina ooze, the red clay into which it is rapidly passing still contains a considerable admixture of carbonate of lime.

than Occurrences 7%

It is the penalty one has to pay for being of finer clay than the common herd of men.

as Occurrences 7%

He is of course built from the same clay as his brother of the Volunteers; but the latter is a tin god, and the former is a devil.

By Occurrences 4%

Le Sage A FIGHT WITH A CANNON By Victor Hugo TONTON By A. Cheneviere THE LAST LESSON By Alphonse Daudet CROISILLES By Alfred de Musset THE VASE OF CLAY By Jean Aicard A PIECE OF BREAD BY FRANCOIS

under Occurrences 4%

But that seemed too strange to be true, till that great geologist, Sir W. Loganwho has since done such good work in Canada- -showed that every bed of coal had a bed of clay under it, and that that clay always contained fossils called Stigmaria.

beneath Occurrences 3%

The Sigillarias, at least, had grown where they were found, and the clay beneath the coal-beds was the original soil on which they had grown.

above Occurrences 3%

For not only were they deposited in shallow water; a great deal of them, probably, near river-mouths, and by the force of violent currents, as the irregularity of their lower bed proves: but there is hardly a plant or animal found in the chalk itself, which is found in the gravels, sands, or clays above it.

out Occurrences 3%

After a time, a delicate patch of cellular membrane appeared upon one face of this yolk, and that patch was the foundation of the whole creature, the clay out of which it would be moulded.

without Occurrences 2%

And look here, there's enough girls after Doctor Clay without youthere was a man from the city telling Bertie at the stable that he seen our doctor in a box at the Opera with the Senator's daughter two weeks ago, and that she is fair dippy about him, and now that he is thinking of goin' into politics, it would be a great chance for him.

between Occurrences 2%

The walls were well clayed between the logs, which were large and round, except on the upper and under sides, and as visible inside as out, successive bulging cheeks gradually lessening upwards and tuned to each other with the axe, like Pandean pipes.

like Occurrences 2%

The Merinids took to rubble and a soft tufa, and the Cherifian dynasties built in clay like the Spaniards in South America.

within Occurrences 2%

Am I not as the clay within thy hand, Taking the shape and image of thy thought?

before Occurrences 1%

Blow, thou wind, upon the flame, Raise it ever higher, hotter, Till, like clay before the potter, Soft become the iron frame, Bending at the worker's will, All his purpose to fulfil Ho!

around Occurrences 1%

How we need such an artist as the Scotch Preacher to mould heroes out of the common human clay around us!

over Occurrences 1%

The mound-builders of the Ohio valley, as has been shown, often placed a layer of clay over the dead, but not in immediate contact, upon which they builded fires; and the evidence that cremation was often resorted to in their disposition are too abundant to be gainsaid.

among Occurrences 1%

Trinidad seems to have had its full share of those later disturbances of the earth-crust, which carried tertiary strata up along the shoulders of the Alps; which upheaved the chalk of the Isle of Wight, setting the tertiary beds of Alum Bay upright against it; which even, after the Age of Ice, thrust up the Isle of Moen in Denmark and the Isle of Ely in Cambridgeshire, entangling the boulder clay among the chalkhow long ago?

through Occurrences 1%

At about thirty feet from the surface, when they had already been obliged to insert transverse logs in the shaft to prevent the sides from falling in, they had come upon a kind of soil altogether different from the ordinary clay through which they had been working.

Which preposition to use with  clay