potation

Example Sentences

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“A vewy sensible obsawvation, fwiend Lucas!” said Swinton, inspired by a free potation of the widow’s choice wines.

From The Child Wife by Reid, Mayne

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 Wise, H. A. (Henry Augustus)

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

Debilitated people, who have been unfortunately accustomed to great ingurgitation of spirituous potation, frequently part with a great quantity of water during the night, but with not more than usual in the day-time.

From Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus

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