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 Bayard Taylor
Accordingly, at dinner I again took the field, en potence.
From The Crayon Papers by Washington Irving
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 Arabella Kenealy
The second division, under major general Desha, composed of Allen's and Caldwell's brigades, was formed en potence, or at right angles to the first division.
From Life of Tecumseh, and of His Brother the Prophet With a Historical Sketch of the Shawanoe Indians by Benjamin Drake
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 Arabella Kenealy
