potence
Example Sentences
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But in this there is no disadvantage; factors of such sovereign potence do not suffer from repetition.
From The Color Line A Brief in Behalf of the Unborn by William Benjamin Smith
Accordingly, at dinner I again took the field, en potence.
From The Crayon Papers by Washington Irving
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
A rapid occupation Must start the needful perspiration, And through thy frame the liquor's potence fling.
From Faust by Bayard Taylor
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
