potation
Example Sentences
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He proceeded to shame me by indulging in a very liberal potation, smacking his lips with greatest zest at its conclusion, and winking across at me in a manner intended to indicate his superiority.
From A Maid of the Kentucky Hills by Edwin Carlile Litsey
Now this brings me," he continued after drinking off the potation which Flan Sucker had assiduously placed upon the stand for his use, "to Andy Grant.
From Quodlibet by John Pendleton Kennedy
At Cambridge "they have a potation of Figgs, Reasons and Almons, Bonnes and Beer at the charge of the sayed Determiners."
From A History of Giggleswick School From its Foundation, 1499 to 1912 by Edward Allen Bell
We tried to make a palatable potation from some of our milk chocolate, reserved for the higher work and labelled, “For eating only.”
From The Ascent of Denali (Mount McKinley) A Narrative of the First Complete Ascent of the Highest Peak in North America by Hudson Stuck
"Well-a-day," continued the clerk, draining an ample potation, "I've heard strange noises thereabout; and the big building there, men say, is haunted by the ghost."
From Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 by John Roby
