Look, thy husband's home is thine, potent and goodly, and shall be thine for ever more.
Thou art called Juno Lucina by the mother in her travail-pangs, thou art namedpotent Trivia and Luna with an ill-got light.
Which of these doctrines will be most potent to lead our nation to high things?
Our unity will be of itself a potent initiative in the world.
He had told her indeed that she intoxicated him; and truly, in those moments when she was compelled to oppose her dewy eloquence to his fervid importunities, her whole presence seemed to him to exhale a singularly potent sweetness.
If they discover in it no signs of any noble inspiration, ruling moral conception, or potent future, they will learn to despise it, and to regard its territory as a new field for a predatory policy, and direct or indirect domination.
The voice of self-love was more ready to plead extenuation; and hope, always far more potent than memory, told him that mighty things might yet be derived for love and for his country, from the very deeds he so deeply regretted.
Forgive me if I have sported with your feelings this night, which may be I have done in some degree, but there is a potent demon in my heart just now, that strives hard to crush each noble wish and kindly feeling, ere they can rise.
Yet, with singular disregard, for writer's law, Nature continued to weave for Ramon her potent spells.
But while, for an hour thereafter, they sat in a cool patio talking and sipping, the despised brew was still potent enough to loose the mad rustler spirit that hearkened only to the voice of desire.
He knew that, next to the worship of God, the true worship of a fellow-creature, in the old meaning of the word, is the most potent thing for deliverance.
No doubt self was potent in the patience, and not the best self, for that forgets itself--yet the better self, the self that chooses what good it knows.
But there was another reflection, more potent yet, that urged Barbara to speak.
His grandfather found him, as he said, a chip of the old block; and rejoiced that Nature had granted his humble blood so potent a part in this compound of gentle and plebeian; for Richard showed himself a worthy workman!
At present, it is being administered by driblets, as if it were a potent medicine, "a few drops to be taken occasionally in a teaspoon.
She seemed to run in the shadow of some dark, potent secret of which she would not, of whose existence even she dared not become conscious, it cast such a spell over her, and so darkened her mind.
A strange, distracted feeling came over her, a sense of potent unrealities.
He had a strong, dark bond with her mother, a potent intimacy that existed inarticulate and wild, following its own course, and savage if interrupted, uncovered.
But she would wake in the morning one day and feel her blood running, feel herself lying open like a flower unsheathed in the sun, insistent and potentwith demand.
By now they knew each other; she was the daytime, the daylight, he was the shadow, put aside, but in the darkness potent with an overwhelming voluptuousness.
Lucrezia Crivelli, bright and gentle as ever, was preparing an anodyne of wine, pepper, cloves, and otherpotent spices for the illustrious sufferer.
Even among men on active service, many of whom are nearing mid-life, and have long been married, mother's influence is still a supremely potent thing!
It was never so seen in Israel before; and thus have been linked to the throne of England by potent blood bonds almost all the Protestant royalties of Europe.
Near this place we found the famous Sheba gold mine, its costly machinery for the present lying idle, and its cottages deserted at the stern bidding of intruding war--that most potent disturber of the industries of peace.
She is the only mother that ever reigned in her own right over any potent realm; and certainly over our own.
Throughout the Transvaal in every town and hamlet, the House of God is invariably the central building, as also it is the centre of the most potent influence.
San Fernando, an important town on the Apure, was strongly fortified, and was held by the Spaniards as a potent means of annoying the Patriots in any attempts they might make to cross the river.
It appears to possess a magical power, and its potent spell enslaves the Baron as the lamp and ring of Eastern tales enslaved the Afrites.
Many and many a New Englander counts among his pleasantest early recollections the memory of some of these genial creatures, who by their warmth of nature were the first and most potent mesmerisers of his childish mind.
Its possessor knows the difficulty of the path by which he has reached it, and the reasons which on his way have appeared so potent against it.
A mere dream, a vague hope may be more potent than certainty in a lesser matter.
An honest Watchman bidding aloud Good-morrow to another, freed him from the Malice of manypotent Enemies, and brought all their Designs against him to nothing.
In power, in pleasing witchery of potent influence; insidious flattery of pleasure; in remorseless persecution of the penniless, all wonders are its work.
She had a voice that as yet was only in its making; it was but a promise of the future splendour, yet to Gilian, the hearer, it brought a new and potent joy.
Thy wond'rous acts in beauteous order stand, And all attest how potent is thine hand.
In the everyday life of the exchange market, political developments of an unfavorable character and war rumors are about the most frequent and potent influences toward the condition of uneasiness above referred to.
Heavy imports are always a potent factor in raising the level of exchange rates.
They cheered him in his half-blind and bleeding wretchedness with promise of what that marvelous elixir, whisky, would do for him once he began to feel the quickening of its potent flame.
It was the Church which was the most potent instrument in bringing together Norman and Saxon as well as master and slave.
Here will come in that power which, as I pointed out, has sometimes been so potent and sometimes so impotent, but which, if it is allowed its proper scope, can never fail.
There is one in my employ who wields a more potent weapon--mark you--and that is Gomez, the headsman.
In early days these stores were potent factors, and the control of prices was often regulated by them.
To no man's mind was God ever a more potent reality in the affairs of men than to his mind.
The influence of the Temple ordinances is, perhaps, the most potent of any influence in the Church in the establishment of union, in the perpetuity of brotherly love, and in the preservation of a God-like purity.
