potation
Example Sentences
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The "Thumbo-rig" above might mean either a new potation or a new dance.
From Confessions Of Con Cregan An Irish Gil Blas by Charles James Lever
"I am aware of that," replied her guest, "and, therefore, when in a public house, always pay for it the price of the stronger potation, which I cannot take."
From Fifty-Two Stories For Girls by Alfred H. (Alfred Henry) Miles
"Mine host" made sundry equivocal contortions of the countenance, and practised by anticipation several downward motions of the muscles of deglutition, and then swallowed the enormous potation without a groan.
From The Cavaliers of Virginia, vol. 1 of 2 or, The Recluse of Jamestown; An historical romance of the Old Dominion by William A. (Alexander) Caruthers
Indeed, I know of no thin potation more truly refreshing before breakfast, than a cooling draught of cocoanut wai.
From Los Gringos Or, An Inside View of Mexico and California, with Wanderings in Peru, Chili, and Polynesia by H. A. (Henry Augustus) Wise
Your ploughman, I suppose, becoming one degree poorer than he was born to be, would only go without his dinner, or without his usual potation of ale.
From St. Ronan's Well by Sir Walter Scott
