What if he should describe to the judge the Look, the Idea, and the Potion that awaited his home-coming?
That look had been a theft from Sylvia, not a gift; but she had given him the potionat last.
Had you even shewn so much regard to custom and common decency, as to have offered me the potion in a bowl or a goblet, there might have been some little palliation.
But, like a skilful leech, he hath mixed for our unsteady and sin-loving heart the potion of repentance, prescribing this for the remission of sins.
The direful potion burnt like fire in his veins, for its effect was made, perhaps, still more sudden from the wine he had drunk previously.
My mother was herself a saga: she shared the resentment of her child; from her hands I received the potion that was to restore me his love; and from her, also, the poison that was to destroy my rival.
She laughed bitterly, and, dropping some medicine from a vial, swallowed the potion and resumed her walk up and down the floor.
He offered no suggestion as to the treatment, but gave a potion which she informed him was due.
For inasmuch as a certain Malichus was afraid of this, he bribed one of the king's cup-bearers to give a poisoned potion to Antipater.
This man came and brought another deadly potion of the poison of asps and of other serpents, that if the first potion did not accomplish its end, Pheroras and his wife might be armed with this also against the king.
The bitter potion must be sweetened with honey and sugar to make it palatable.
When a physician administers a bitterpotion to a patient, he does it to cure the patient.
And when she saw that the potion had worked and that he was sound asleep, the Princess took the magic ring from his finger, and going into the courtyard she threw it from the palm of one hand into the other.
When his potion and his pill Has or none or little skill, Meet for nothing but to kill,-- Sweet Spirit, comfort me!
And if sometimes, commingled with life's wine, We find the wormwood, and rebel and shrink, Be sure a wiser hand than yours or mine Pours out this potion for our lips to drink.
They are about to be led off to execution when Basilius, who is lying on a bier in the judgement hall, suddenly rises, the potion having spent its force.
In his despair he seeks aid from the priestess of a certain temple, and receives from her a magic potion which drives from him all remembrance of his passion.
And these people make use of a very strange beverage; for they brew a potion of mixed sulphur and quicksilver, and drink it twice every month.
If the potion act upon him as a diuretic, he is pronounced innocent; but in some persons it produces vertigo.
King Mark hastens to assure Ysolde that she and Tristan are both forgiven; for Brangeane having penitently revealed to him the secret of the love potion which she administered, he realises that they could not but yield to its might.
By a potion that you drank, you were tricked and deceived the night that you celebrated your wedding.
When the potion was prepared, then had the day run its course, and the tables were placed for supper, and the tablecloths laid; but she delays the supper.
Friend," quoth she, "at this banquet I wish to pay the emperor the flattering meed of a potion that he will greatly esteem.
When he hears that good will come of it he takes the potion and goes away; for he knows not that there is aught wrong.
At first the maiden trembles; for greatly does she fear and feel alarm lest the potion take no effect.
I feel my own ill so heavy a burden that never shall I find healing for it by medicine or by potion or by herb or by root.
Brangaena enters, and she and Mark try to explain how she has told the whole story of the potion to Mark; how Mark has come, too late, to unite the lovers.
So by her sorceries, and for the love of her maid, she brewed such a potion that no man, however wearied and outworn, but by drinking this philtre, would not be refreshed in heart and blood and bones.
Neither herb nor root nor potion can ever cure the wound within your flesh: For that there is no healing.
The precious potion bestrewed the ground, making a garden of that desolate place.
Meanwhile the effects of the sleeping-potion have worn off, and Jeppe wakes.
That worked well; the sleeping-potion has already taken effect, and he is sleeping like a log.
And I venture to propose that Your Majesty should announce that a great alchemist has been compounding a potion to relieve their blindness.
And in the depths of the Palace Hi-You the swineherd was hard at work compounding a potion which, he assured the King, would restore Frederick to his own princely form.
I took the potion which the count gave me; I lost my senses.
A new and powerful potion restored me to my former vitality.
I will suppose that I carry to a sick person a potion which I believe to be an efficient remedy, but which, by a mistake for which I am not accountable, proves to be a deadly poison.
He had, it is true, administered his love potion with singular dexterity and success, but as yet he reaped no fruit from his labours, and was desperately afraid lest the effect of the magic draught might wear off.
Adrian cleared his throat, reflecting that she was keeping the workings of the love potion under wonderful control; indeed to look at her no one could have guessed that she had recently absorbed this magic Eastern medicine.
They both made up their minds that they must part, and as they said farewell, it was with the fervent hope that the magic potion would have lost its power by the time they met again.
In vain Gomin several times drank off a glass of thepotion in his presence; his example proved as ineffectual as his words.
I spent part of the day at the Feuillans, and her Majesty told me she would ask Potion to let me be with her in the place which the Assembly should decree for her prison.
And as Lasne, while speaking, began to taste the potion in a glass, the child took what he offered him out of his hands.
He determined to go up to Potion alone; he told him that those who requested to be confined could not be suspected of evil designs, and that no political opinion could afford a ground of objection to these solicitations.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "potion" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
