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
Your ploughman, I suppose, becoming one degree poorer than he was born to be, would only go without his dinner, or without his usual potation of ale.
From St. Ronan's Well by Sir Walter Scott
“A vewy sensible obsawvation, fwiend Lucas!” said Swinton, inspired by a free potation of the widow’s choice wines.
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
"Here, you fish!" he said, in the midst of Gad's potation.
From Cudjo's Cave by J. T. (John Townsend) Trowbridge
