potation
Example Sentences
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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
"The influenza is stronger," replied Mrs. Portheris oracularly, and finished her second potation.
From A Voyage of Consolation (being in the nature of a sequel to the experiences of 'An American girl in London') by Sara Jeannette Duncan
Now this brings me," he continued after drinking off the potation which Flan Sucker had assiduously placed upon the stand for his use, "to Andy Grant.
From Quodlibet by John Pendleton Kennedy
While water was thus freely drunk, wine was not disregarded; but the various articles with which it was adulterated, must have rendered it any thing but a delectable potation according to our received ideas.
From Curiosities of Medical Experience by J. G. (John Gideon) Millingen
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 Edward Allen Bell
