potence

Example Sentences

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A rapid occupation Must start the needful perspiration, And through thy frame the liquor's potence fling.

From Faust by Taylor, Bayard

Infinite in essence, we crave it in potence.

From Tablets by Alcott, Amos Bronson

These three brigades formed the command of Major-General Henry; the whole of General Desha's division, consisting of two brigades, were formed en potence upon the left of Trotter.

From The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776-1876 by Jacquemart, Jules-Ferdinand

Genius has never fruited to full bloom and potence, because the mothers have so seldom realised the greatness of their task.

From Feminism and Sex-Extinction by Kenealy, Arabella

Universe in potence followed the Idea of Creation in Deity, 767-u.

From Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Pike, Albert