potation

Example Sentences

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

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

Everybody pledged the patriarch's health in the creamy potation except myself.

From The Secret of a Happy Home (1896) by Harland, Marion

What species o' sma' potation does he deal in?

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume I Historical, Traditionary, and Imaginative by Various

When I was in Tours I visited the abbey of Marmoustier, and there drank a veritable potation from the huge tun which the blessed St. Martin himself filled, by squeezing a single cluster of grapes.

From Rob of the Bowl, Vol. I (of 2) A Legend of St. Inigoe's by Kennedy, John P.

The "Thumbo-rig" above might mean either a new potation or a new dance.

From Confessions Of Con Cregan An Irish Gil Blas by Lever, Charles James