potation
Example Sentences
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While with a scornful glance, that comprehended both him and his acolytes, the other faced back to the bar, coolly completed his potation, and, without saying another word, reascended the stairway.
From The Child Wife by Mayne Reid
And what have we to do in our circle with this diplomatic, sober potation, this Champagne?
From The Pictures; The Betrothing Novels by Connop Thirlwall
When church service was over, many knights and other men came, as I expected, into the room where I was, for their morning's potation.
From The Banished A Swabian Historical Tale. In Three Volumes. by Wilhelm Hauff
At Cambridge "they have a potation of Figgs, Reasons and Almons, Bonnes and Beer at the charge of the sayed Determiners."
From A History of Giggleswick School From its Foundation, 1499 to 1912 by Edward Allen Bell
Seizing a vile potation that was labelled “To be taken immediately,” and hurling it with demoniacal force right on the chops of the courageous Timothy, “Take that!” cried he with a rancorous yell.
From Japhet in Search of a Father by Frederick Marryat
