potation
Example Sentences
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The "Thumbo-rig" above might mean either a new potation or a new dance.
From Confessions Of Con Cregan An Irish Gil Blas by Charles James Lever
"The influenza is stronger," replied Mrs. Portheris oracularly, and finished her second potation.
From A Voyage of Consolation (being in the nature of a sequel to the experiences of 'An American girl in London') by Sara Jeannette Duncan
By way of a stronger potation, Rhenish wine was much to his taste.
From Historical Tales - The Romance of Reality - Volume VII by Charles Morris
While water was thus freely drunk, wine was not disregarded; but the various articles with which it was adulterated, must have rendered it any thing but a delectable potation according to our received ideas.
From Curiosities of Medical Experience by J. G. (John Gideon) Millingen
Now this brings me," he continued after drinking off the potation which Flan Sucker had assiduously placed upon the stand for his use, "to Andy Grant.
From Quodlibet by John Pendleton Kennedy
