potence
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A rapid occupation Must start the needful perspiration, And through thy frame the liquor's potence fling.
From Faust by Bayard Taylor
The three brigades on the right flank will be faced to the left and marched forward; the head of this column still forming en potence with the front line.
From The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776-1876 by Jules-Ferdinand Jacquemart
As such it is necessarily inferior to the sum total of its effects, and dependent for reality on these—in a word, a mere potence or becoming.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 6 "Coucy-le-Château" to "Crocodile" by Various
Cobham’s and Kerr’s dragoons flanked them en potence.
From A Daughter of Raasay A Tale of the '45 by Stuart Travis
Of earth the bold, Where the blind matter wrings An awful potence out of impotence, Bowing the spiritual things To the things of sense.
From The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Vol. I by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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