potence
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Cobham’s and Kerr’s dragoons flanked them en potence.
From A Daughter of Raasay A Tale of the '45 by Stuart Travis
If this dose should not be sufficient, we prepare a new potence by throwing away three tablespoonfuls of the former solution and substituting four tablespoonfuls of fresh water, shaking the mixture well.
From Apis Mellifica or, The Poison of the Honey-Bee, Considered as a Therapeutic Agent by C. W. Wolf
The second division, under major general Desha, composed of Allen's and Caldwell's brigades, was formed en potence, or at right angles to the first division.
From Life of Tecumseh, and of His Brother the Prophet With a Historical Sketch of the Shawanoe Indians by Benjamin Drake
They rob them, accordingly, of the greatest transfiguring potence and happiness of life.
From Feminism and Sex-Extinction by Arabella Kenealy
Great, indeed, is the potence of "environment"; greater, by far, the potence of heredity.
From The Color Line A Brief in Behalf of the Unborn by William Benjamin Smith
