potation
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"Mine host" made sundry equivocal contortions of the countenance, and practised by anticipation several downward motions of the muscles of deglutition, and then swallowed the enormous potation without a groan.
From The Cavaliers of Virginia, vol. 1 of 2 or, The Recluse of Jamestown; An historical romance of the Old Dominion by William A. (Alexander) Caruthers
But I suspect the water forms the best part of the potation.
From Fred Markham in Russia The Boy Travellers in the Land of the Czar by R. T. Landells
What species o' sma' potation does he deal in?
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume I Historical, Traditionary, and Imaginative by Various
When I was in Tours I visited the abbey of Marmoustier, and there drank a veritable potation from the huge tun which the blessed St. Martin himself filled, by squeezing a single cluster of grapes.
From Rob of the Bowl, Vol. I (of 2) A Legend of St. Inigoe's by John P. Kennedy
Order me a beef-steak, and some potation or other.
From Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 by Charles Brockden Brown
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