potation
Example Sentences
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Indeed, I know of no thin potation more truly refreshing before breakfast, than a cooling draught of cocoanut wai.
From Los Gringos Or, An Inside View of Mexico and California, with Wanderings in Peru, Chili, and Polynesia by H. A. (Henry Augustus) Wise
Order me a beef-steak, and some potation or other.
From Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 by Charles Brockden Brown
Thus, having swallowed the last possible morsel and washed it down with a fervent potation, Oloffe felt his heart yearning and his whole frame in a manner dilating with unbounded benevolence.
From Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8 by Charles Herbert Sylvester
Everybody pledged the patriarch's health in the creamy potation except myself.
From The Secret of a Happy Home (1896) by Marion Harland
Would I had the power to veto Bills of every mosquito; Then I'd pass a peaceful summer, With no small nocturnal hummer Feasting on my circulation, For his regular potation.
From The Wit of Women Fourth Edition by Kate Sanborn
