potation

Example Sentences

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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

At Cambridge "they have a potation of Figgs, Reasons and Almons, Bonnes and Beer at the charge of the sayed Determiners."

From A History of Giggleswick School From its Foundation, 1499 to 1912 by Bell, Edward Allen

Order me a beef-steak, and some potation or other.

From Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 by Brown, Charles Brockden

And what have we to do in our circle with this diplomatic, sober potation, this Champagne?

From The Pictures; The Betrothing Novels by Thirlwall, Connop

When I was in Tours I visited the abbey of Marmoustier, and there drank a veritable potation from the huge tun which the blessed St. Martin himself filled, by squeezing a single cluster of grapes.

From Rob of the Bowl, Vol. I (of 2) A Legend of St. Inigoe's by Kennedy, John P.