potence

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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 Jacquemart, Jules-Ferdinand

Without delay an advance was made en potence, and it was confidently anticipated that Stamboul would fall before the insurgent arms.

From Herzegovina Or, Omer Pacha and the Christian Rebels by Arbuthnot, George

But in this there is no disadvantage; factors of such sovereign potence do not suffer from repetition.

From The Color Line A Brief in Behalf of the Unborn by Smith, William Benjamin

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 Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

This is the theory of the importance of the individual, raised, so to speak, to its very highest potence.

From Social Rights And Duties Addresses to Ethical Societies Vol II by Stephen, Leslie