"And now, gentlemen," said Clifford, as soon as the revellers had provided themselves with their wonted luxuries, potatory and fumous. From Wordnik.com. [Paul Clifford — Complete] Reference
I coquetted a whole minute with my napkin, before I attempted the soup, and I helped myself to the potatory food with a slow dignity that must have perfectly won the heart of the solemn waiter. From Wordnik.com. [Pelham — Complete] Reference
These cocktails, and other artificial combinations of liquor, (of which there were at least a score, though mostly, I suspect, fantastic in their differences,) were much in favor with the younger class of customers, who, at farthest, had only reached the second stage of potatory life. From Wordnik.com. [The Blithedale Romance] Reference
It somewhat lessens in our notions the personal responsibility, or the personal potatory capability of the parson, to discover that there was an ordination in town during that rum-paged week, and that the visiting ministers probably drank the greater portion of Jerome Ripley's liquor. From Wordnik.com. [Sabbath in Puritan New England] Reference
"The fact of the matter is, Albert, I have devoted my unfortunate life to two arts: the military and the potatory. From Wordnik.com. [Greener Than You Think] Reference
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