potation

Example Sentences

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"Well-a-day," continued the clerk, draining an ample potation, "I've heard strange noises thereabout; and the big building there, men say, is haunted by the ghost."

From Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 by Roby, John

"I am aware of that," replied her guest, "and, therefore, when in a public house, always pay for it the price of the stronger potation, which I cannot take."

From Fifty-Two Stories For Girls by Miles, Alfred H. (Alfred Henry)

It was about the same hour at which Mr. Levi was drinking his thirsty potation of brandy and soda at the “Guy of Warwick.”

From Checkmate by Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan

Order me a beef-steak, and some potation or other.

From Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 by Brown, Charles Brockden

“A vewy sensible obsawvation, fwiend Lucas!” said Swinton, inspired by a free potation of the widow’s choice wines.

From The Child Wife by Reid, Mayne