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.
There is nothing in the world I hate so much as brandy; however, I swallowed the potation as if it had been nectar, and made some fine speech about it, which the good Czarina did not seem perfectly to understand.
I took a draught of the water, which was very cold and tasteless, and reminded the monk of his disorder in the reins, to which a similar potation might possibly be efficacious.
Hollands, green-and- yellow Hollands, is a potation good enough to set before one of the present bearing.
The most that I can yield is a good potation of the generous south-side; and if you are the man I take you for, you will know how to prize such an offer.
John managed to consume a doughnut and some crackers and cheese, and then went to his room, carrying the water pitcher with him, and, after a cigarette or two and a small potation from his flask, to bed.
Mr. Harum had swallowed his own liquor "raw," as was the custom in Homeville and vicinity, following the potation with a mouthful of water.
Quarter next after Christmas A cock penny and in any of the three other Quarters in the year one Potation Penny.
Potation pennies" were gratuities made when a feast was provided, whilst "nutt money" was the term applied to the gifts made to the schoolmasters at Michaelmas.
A civilian, who attends a fancy ball in a splendid uniform, is inspired with courageous ideas, which a free potation of refreshment fans into a martial ardour.
When the forester had got his potation also, he quietly took his seat on the end of one of the logs that lay nigh the fires, and the slight interruption produced by his entrance seemed to he forgotten.
The accustomed drunkard is disordered, if he has not his usual potation of fermented liquor.
While water was thus freely drunk, wine was not disregarded; but the various articles with which it was adulterated, must have rendered it any thing but a delectable potation according to our received ideas.
With jesting and potation The hours till day were spent, Without inebriation The wine-cup gladness lent.
This potation money was spent at the Mitre Tavern in Fleet Street, on ten Monthly Court dinners, which averaged the modest sum of £4 4s.
It is noticeable that the Potation Money fell off on the separation of the Surgeons from the Barbers.
His great delight was in cock-fighting and he must have looked forward to each Potation Day, March 12, with considerable joy.
Potation Day was celebrated to the usual accompaniment of Figs until the year 1860, when the Charity Commissioners objected to it and to the Governors' dinners as a waste of trust funds.
Potation Day was the customary day for such offerings in many schools, but at Giggleswick the practice of receiving money from the Scholars was particularly forbidden in the case of the Writing Master in 1799, and at other times.
At Cambridge "they have a potationof Figgs, Reasons and Almons, Bonnes and Beer at the charge of the sayed Determiners.
The Potation was still retained and the cost of the meetings on March 12 grew more and more.
The effect of this potation upon the Captain was to give him a more flushed brow, and a moister eye, and to administer somewhat to the volubility of his tongue.
When I was in Tours I visited the abbey of Marmoustier, and there drank a veritable potation from the huge tun which the blessed St. Martin himself filled, by squeezing a single cluster of grapes.
They took besides some slight antimonial medicine for a while, and were reduced to half the quantity or strength of their usual potation of fermented liquor.
Hence wounds in those, who have been accustomed to the use of much wine, are very liable to mortify, unless the usual potation of wine be allowed the patient.
A grain of opium at night instead of the usualpotation of wine or beer.
