potence
Example Sentences
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If this dose should not be sufficient, we prepare a new potence by throwing away three tablespoonfuls of the former solution and substituting four tablespoonfuls of fresh water, shaking the mixture well.
From Apis Mellifica or, The Poison of the Honey-Bee, Considered as a Therapeutic Agent by C. W. Wolf
Without delay an advance was made en potence, and it was confidently anticipated that Stamboul would fall before the insurgent arms.
From Herzegovina Or, Omer Pacha and the Christian Rebels by George Arbuthnot
A rapid occupation Must start the needful perspiration, And through thy frame the liquor's potence fling.
From Faust by Bayard Taylor
It hath the potence of a charm, On dulness lays a conquering arm, Subjects the mind to its control, And works its will upon the soul.
From Fables of La Fontaine — a New Edition, with Notes by Elizur Wright
The potence and the values of fine motherhood are proven by the fact that every great, or good, or clever man or woman has been the child of a great, or good, or clever mother.
From Feminism and Sex-Extinction by Arabella Kenealy
