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 Lever, Charles James

"Well-a-day," continued the clerk, draining an ample potation, "I've heard strange noises thereabout; and the big building there, men say, is haunted by the ghost."

From Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 by Roby, John

Would I had the power to veto Bills of every mosquito; Then I'd pass a peaceful summer, With no small nocturnal hummer Feasting on my circulation, For his regular potation.

From The Wit of Women Fourth Edition by Sanborn, Kate

Seizing a vile potation that was labelled “To be taken immediately,” and hurling it with demoniacal force right on the chops of the courageous Timothy, “Take that!” cried he with a rancorous yell.

From Japhet in Search of a Father by Marryat, Frederick

When church service was over, many knights and other men came, as I expected, into the room where I was, for their morning's potation.

From The Banished A Swabian Historical Tale. In Three Volumes. by Hauff, Wilhelm