potence
Example Sentences
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Any attempt to enfilade his front by passing along the other flank was met by the broadsides of the six or eight ships drawn up en potence to the rear.
From The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan
Numerations proceed from potence into act with the first Adam, 795-u.
From Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Albert Pike
Cobham’s and Kerr’s dragoons flanked them en potence.
From A Daughter of Raasay A Tale of the '45 by Stuart Travis
They rob them, accordingly, of the greatest transfiguring potence and happiness of life.
From Feminism and Sex-Extinction by Arabella Kenealy
A rapid occupation Must start the needful perspiration, And through thy frame the liquor's potence fling.
From Faust by Bayard Taylor
