puissant

How to use puissant in a sentence

For he deemed a lady so much sought after must needs be a puissant dame.

Then they were seated behind him, and the puissant horses shot off down the Corso and towards the Bastioni at a magnificent pace.

THE DEVOURERSANNIE VIVANTI CHARTRES

High, puissant and redoubtable seigneur of Nointel, Jacques Bonhomme pardons you for the outrage he perpetrated upon you!

No more wars: puissant Ladies, shew conditions And freely I accept 'em.

Half an hour later, Haward rose from his chair and bowed low as to some highborn and puissant dame.

AUDREYMARY JOHNSTON

Puissant, pū′is-ant, adj. potent or powerful: strong: forcible.

It is good or bad, pallid or puissant, and not by all the might of the sea can it be changed.

One dwelt near Exeter, full puissant, but an old man and an ancient.

Tennyson, according to Matthew Arnold, was not un esprit puissant.

And finally there is Rome itself, sombre, puissant, and both in language and ideals conquering by mass.

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985