Archaeological fragment

Usage examples of potsherd.

I have little doubt but that the Vincey who wrote them on the potsherd heard them so misquoted at that date.

Turning a corner, we came upon the palace garbage-dump, at sight of which, despite the crying need for silence, a wail of grief escaped me: atop the peels and potsherds lit by the gibbous moon lay poor dead Pegasus, belly-up and wings aspread like a great shot gull, all four legs stuck straight toward the heaven he would never take me to.

Around their weathering adobe pyramids lay millions upon millions of potsherds, relics of a thousand years of pottery-making by cultures with magical names: Chimu, Moche, Lambayeque.

The throaty syllables struck my ears like those potsherds on which Athenians periodically write the names of anyone who had happened to offend or bore them.

He slithered back into the daylight, and the sound he made over the gravel, potsherds and sand was strangely reminiscent of chains.

The ground underfoot was a thick, solid carpet of potsherds, scoured and bleached by sand and salt.

He felt along it, pushing his ax before him, and touched not just dirt but potsherds, scraps of wood, two nails, and once a bit of wool cloth, all smashed down into the earth.

The path was littered with red-glazed potsherds that crunched underfoot.

The thin sky-blue potsherds under our feet are First Empire, the thick red ones are from the conquerors.

It was not the gate, however, that interested them, but its keeper, a monstrously paunched creature sitting on the floor beside a vast heap of potsherds, and whose only movement was a rubbing of what seemed to be his hands.

Hurrying back across the road he went to the refuse heap behind the other factory and picked up some of the potsherds.

The wall surrounding the slave dealer's house was high, with spikes and sharp-edged potsherds embedded in its top.