"Pipe-clay" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the beautiful illusion on the rude and undigested mass before him. The tailor spreads out, upon his ample board, the happy broadcloth; his eyes scan the "measured proportions of his client," and, with mystic power, guides the obedient pipe-clay into the graceful diagram of a perfect gentleman. The sculptor, with all the patient perseverance of genius, conscious of the greatness of its object, chips, and chips, and chips, from day to day; and as the stone quickens at each touch, he glows with all the pride of the creative Prometheus, ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 1, September 5, 1841 • Various
... vernal days and languid noons were gone in a twinkling. The change came like another act of a play. One morning—though the dawn stirred cool and fragrant as all dawns before—the "boy" laid out Rudolph's white tunic, slipped in the shining buttons, smeared pipe-clay on his heaviest helmet; and Rudolph, looking from his window, saw that on the river, by the same instinct, boatmen were stretching up their bamboo awnings. Breakfast was hardly ended, before river, and convex field, and huddling red tiles ...
— Dragon's blood • Henry Milner Rideout
... cities are better made of cardboard, starch-paste, or pipe-clay; the houses, public buildings, and other parts being constructed ...
— Enquire Within Upon Everything - The Great Victorian Domestic Standby • Anonymous |
