potence

Example Sentences

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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

Wolfe saw his aim, and sent Brigadier Townshend to counteract him with a regiment which was formed en potence, and supported by two battalions, presenting on the left a double front.

From Life of George Washington — Volume 01 by Irving, Washington

The tattered garments, hanging from their lances, the guillotine, and the potence, with the effigy of the queen suspended from it, traversed the Assembly with impunity.

From History of the Girondists, Volume I Personal Memoirs of the Patriots of the French Revolution by Ryde, H. T.

The potence and the values of fine motherhood are proven by the fact that every great, or good, or clever man or woman has been the child of a great, or good, or clever mother.

From Feminism and Sex-Extinction by Kenealy, Arabella

In truth, the concentration of his thought on the fragment of stone had been enough of itself to give a talisman occult potence.

From Heart of the Blue Ridge by Baily, Waldron