potterer

Up to that time I had been clay in the hands of the potter or "potterer" as it might be.

Fifty Years in the Gospel Ministry from 1864 to 1914. Twenty-seven Years in the Pastorate; Sixteen Years' Active Service as Chaplain in the U. S. Army; Seven Years Professor in Wilberforce University; Two Trips to Europe; A Trip in Mexico. Theophilus Gould 1866

She accordingly classed her new possession as a confirmed potterer and made her way down by what Peter with more exactness than delicacy, had already named the Privy Stair.

Busman's Honeymoon Sayers, Dorothy L. 1937

Her mother believed that Franklin had run away simply to get rid of her, and the poor girl, dazed and forlorn, bereft of will, had been induced to marry a man by the name of Rogers, who was a potter and also a potterer, but who Franklin says was “a very good potter.”

Little Journeys To the Homes of the Great Hubbard, Elbert, 1856-1915 1916

As for Thiers, let men judge him from his three revolutions, let the unknown dead in the ditches beyond the enceinte judge him, let the spectres of the murdered from Père Lachaise to the bullet-pitted terrace of the Luxembourg judge this meddler, this potterer in epoch-making cataclysms.

Lorraine A romance 1899

Her mother believed that Franklin had run away simply to get rid of her, and the poor girl, dazed and forlorn, bereft of will, had been induced to marry a man by the name of Rogers, who was a potter and also a potterer, but who Franklin says was "a very good potter."

Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 03 Little Journeys to the Homes of American Statesmen Elbert Hubbard 1885

As for the potterer and the niggler, the men and women whose stroke goes no farther back than their knuckles, I may frankly say that charcoal is not for them.

Outdoor Sketching Four Talks Given before the Art Institute of Chicago; The Scammon Lectures, 1914 Francis Hopkinson Smith 1876

FourFourTwo.com Premier Sketch: Hairy potterer, underpants, snot and Swede-bashing - 2 hrs ago

BBC News - Home 2010

Widows begins with Alexandra, the oldest and most earthy of the witches, who has recently lost her cowboy-potterer husband. ...

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If you’re a potterer-around-the-house, Instructables is a great site to learn how to use old stuff to build new, usable ones, including (hold your breath) how to use pantyhose in place of a broken fan belt.

The Online Feel-Good Value « One Size Fits One 2008

Whether he be the enthusiastic investigator resolved on exhausting any great question, or be a mere wayward potterer, picking up curiosities by the way for his own private intellectual museum, the larger the collection at his disposal the better -- it cannot be too great. [

The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author John Hill Burton