Potations

Hebrew being intermixed with feminine; the latter being figurative, the former the real persons meant. say to their masters -- that is, to their king, with whom the princes indulged in potations (Ho 7: 5), and whom here they importune for more wine. ❋ Unknown (1871)

His voice sounded like a man's whose throat has been scorched by many and long potations. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Shakespeare's Falstaff asked audiences "to forswear thin potations and to addict themselves to sack" and Francis Drake pillaged thousands of barrels from Spain. ❋ Norman Miller (2010)

As in any region, some wines will stand out and be award winners; others may be no more than casual supper potations. ❋ Unknown (2007)

They crossed a broad street which seemed the metropolis of the district; it flamed with gin palaces; a multitude were sauntering in the mild though tainted air; bargaining, blaspheming, drinking, mangling; and varying their business and their potations, their fierce strife and their impious irreverence, with flashes of rich humour, gleams of native wit, and racy phrases of idiomatic slang. ❋ Jonathan Raban (2009)

He essayed to drown his sorrows in potations of whisky, his stomach and liver were disordered, jaundice succeeded, and this Light of other days died on the 1st of Feb., 1841, aged 49. ❋ Steve (2009)

Sixty years earlier, the ­historian Edward Gibbon had ­remarked of the dons of Magdalen College: “Their dull and deep ­potations excused the brisk ­intemperance of youth.” ❋ Ferdinand Mount (2009)

“Do veniam,” said his Superior; and the old man seized, with a trembling hand, a beverage to which he had been long unaccustomed; drained the cup with protracted delight, as if dwelling on the flavour and perfume, and set it down with a melancholy smile and shake of the head, as if bidding adieu in future to such delicious potations. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The fanglike teeth are what is sometimes called “British”: sturdy, if unevenly spaced, and have turned an alarming shade of yellow and brown, attributable perhaps to strong coffee as well as to nicotine, Pinot Noir, and other potations. ❋ Hitchens, Christopher (2007)

This solemn proceeding always took place in the afternoon of the day succeeding his return; perhaps, because the boys acquired strength of mind from the suspense of the morning, or, possibly, because Mr Squeers himself acquired greater sternness and inflexibility from certain warm potations in which he was wont to indulge after his early dinner. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Whilst putting a stop to all unnecessary potations, detrimental alike to a firm brain and a steady gait,153 he left them free to quench thirst when nature dictated154; a method which would at once add to the pleasure whilst it diminished the danger of drinking. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Jerome – Nicolas Sechard, after copious potations, began with a ❋ Unknown (2007)

Oh, that I should be dying for her, must still adore her, always see her through my potations, see her still when I was overcome with wine, or in the arms of courtesans; and know that I was a target for her scornful jests! ❋ Unknown (2007)

Paxton invents definitions. my wife finds it fascinating that i define conservatives as "tarbrains or having grey matter the consistancy of mashed potations, yet sticky and smelly and flammable". ❋ Ann Althouse (2007)

And now we have to consider whether the insight into human nature is the only benefit derived from well ordered potations, or whether there are not other advantages great and much to be desired. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Life is to wear, as at Athens, a joyous and festive look; there are to be Bacchic choruses, and men of mature age are encouraged in moderate potations. ❋ Unknown (2006)

She was up long before the languid Castlewood ladies (just home from their London routs and balls) had quitted their feather-beds, or jolly Will had slept off his various potations of punch. ❋ Unknown (2006)

I did not drink immoderately of wine; for though a friend to trifling potations, to excessively strong drinks tobacco is abhorrent. ❋ Unknown (2006)