potence
Example Sentences
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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 H. T. Ryde
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 Waldron Baily
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 Albert Pike
Infinite in essence, we crave it in potence.
From Tablets by Amos Bronson Alcott
They rob them, accordingly, of the greatest transfiguring potence and happiness of life.
From Feminism and Sex-Extinction by Arabella Kenealy
