puissance
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Brandi Carlile, tearing through her song “The Joke” with folk puissance, was the most emotional and the all-around best performer of the night.
From The New Yorker • Feb. 11, 2019
Maher and Noctambule Courcelle were the only combination to make a fourth jump-off, with the puissance wall raised to 7ft 1in.
From BBC • Dec. 20, 2012
Pepsi-Cola embraced the puissance of “Generation Next,” the New York Mets used “Generation K” to play up the prospects of three young pitchers and Parade, the Sunday newspaper magazine, has run articles about “Generation Wired.”
From New York Times • Sep. 9, 2012
Kraut said in an interview she may also enter the 8-year-old Dutch warmblood in the $25,000 puissance competition, which is a high jump class for horses.
From Washington Post • Oct. 27, 2011
He portrays the former mistress of the world as a lady clad in weeds of mourning, "ancient, august and honorable, but poor and needy as her habit showed, prudent in speech and of great puissance."
From Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) by Symonds, John Addington
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