Still the custom of inordinate potation fondly clung to him. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 271, September 1, 1827] Reference
What intussusception, what potation, and, as a necessary consequence, alas! what rubification!. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 21, July, 1859] Reference
Mr Riderhood got out his bottle, and fetched his jug-full of water, and administered a potation. From Wordnik.com. [Our Mutual Friend] Reference
But don't expect that at over 200 years old, we're looking at a particularly palatable potation. From Wordnik.com. [World's Most Expensive Wine Gulped By U.S. Buyer] Reference
Many of the company were furnished with pipes, and most of them with some kind of evening potation. From Wordnik.com. [The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon] Reference
There was a schoolmaster near Castleisland, who died of sparing the rod but not sparing the potation. From Wordnik.com. [The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent] Reference
Am I right, skipper? he queried of the sailor, now returning after his private potation and the rest of his exertions. From Wordnik.com. [Ulysses] Reference
If the affair end here, well and good; but we will suppose that the potation goes on, and very speedily a new effect is produced. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 377, June 27, 1829] Reference
Of potation stories I could tell scores more, and the Tralee Club has seen enough whisky imbibed within its walls to drown all the members. From Wordnik.com. [The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent] Reference
As a matter of fact, it could well be just like those presents...unless the Government wisely invests in arboriferous potation receptacles. From Wordnik.com. [Stimulating Your Interest] Reference
Let me tell you a secret; since my first potation, my mother has never once remonstrated with me; never once upbraided; my proud, high tempered mother. From Wordnik.com. [The Diamond Coterie] Reference
But I suspect the water forms the best part of the potation. From Wordnik.com. [Fred Markham in Russia The Boy Travellers in the Land of the Czar] Reference
Dartmore administered a plentiful potation of the Curacoa punch. From Wordnik.com. [Pelham — Complete] Reference
Mrs.S. had a pimpled face, which I believe arose from potation of ale. From Wordnik.com. [Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference
A grain of opium at night instead of the usual potation of wine or beer. From Wordnik.com. [Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference
"I feel myself a better man for that ethereal potation," observed the sculptor. From Wordnik.com. [The Marble Faun - Volume 2 The Romance of Monte Beni] Reference
"Peace, woman, peace," said the Dominie, who had gained courage by his potation. From Wordnik.com. [Jacob Faithful] Reference
The influence of this strong potation was to render the man a little more talkative. From Wordnik.com. [Ten Nights in a Bar Room] Reference
The patient should gradually accustom himself to half his usual quantity of vinous potation. From Wordnik.com. [Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference
(A genuine internet deliverable Chromo to anyone who recognizes the origin of this potation.). From Wordnik.com. [Pharyngula] Reference
Between ourselves, honest reader, it is no very strong potation which the present purveyor offers to you. From Wordnik.com. [The Christmas Books of Mr. M.A. Titmarsh] Reference
Poor man, they mistook his reluctance for his diffidence, and forced him to wash it away in another potation. From Wordnik.com. [Pelham — Complete] Reference
For I will admit that I joined in this unholy midnight potation to gain time for thought and to steady my nerve. From Wordnik.com. [The Ivory Child] Reference
He was taking his after-dinner potation of rum and water, y-clept "grog," and reading by the light of a purser's dip. From Wordnik.com. [Marmaduke Merry A Tale of Naval Adventures in Bygone Days] Reference
Am I right, skipper? he queried of the sailor, now returning after his private potation and the rest of his exertions. From Wordnik.com. [Ulysses] Reference
Massasoit, albeit a little incommoded by his strange potation, showed himself both dignified and friendly in his intentions. From Wordnik.com. [Standish of Standish A story of the Pilgrims] Reference
"I have before heard of that potation," replied the Dominie, sitting down on the coaming of the hatchway, "and fain would taste it.". From Wordnik.com. [Jacob Faithful] Reference
He heard the case patiently; and then demanded of the plaintiff A. whether the cow had sat down to her potation or taken it standing. From Wordnik.com. [Waverley — Volume 1] Reference
He heard the case patiently; and then demanded of the plaintiff A., whether the cow had sat down to her potation, or taken it standing. From Wordnik.com. [Waverley: or, 'Tis sixty years since] Reference
I have seen humoral asthma terminate in confirmed anasarca, and destroy the patient, who had been an excessive drinker of spirituous potation. From Wordnik.com. [Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference
When the ladies left the dining-room Lupex and the two young men drew their chairs near the fire, and each prepared for himself a moderate potation. From Wordnik.com. [The Small House at Allington] Reference
Seeing their beacon-nosed postillion preparing too mount and failing in his jump, Redworth was apprehensive, and questioned the fellow concerning potation. From Wordnik.com. [Diana of the Crossways — Complete] Reference
First because the patients are generally much debilitated, most frequently by spirituous potation, and have generally a disease of the liver, or of other viscera. From Wordnik.com. [Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference
We therefore conclude that the use of this potation was more restrained, and that it was with simple element diluted into a composition adapted to his taste and years. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Volume 01] Reference
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