12 Metaphors for potent

So potent is the subtle spell That clothes such masses with a mind; So strong the instincts which impel Their lover answering love to find!

Through homeopathy, too, Mrs. Eddy became convinced of the principle of mind healing, discovering that the more attenuated the drug, the more potent was its effects.

Undoubtedly the most potent was the dislocation of the plans of the Allies by the creation of an independent Albania.

So potent was that magic, such vivid impression did the fate of the grand old Roman make on more than one mind, when thus retold in lofty verse, that the tragedy was cited as a justification of self-destruction.

b, e, x, bex, Ibex!" A gentle speculation followed as to which of all Hilary's utterances had taken finest effect on the boys, and it was agreed that most potent for good was the brief talk away back at Camp Callender, in which he had told them that, being artillery, they must know how to wait unmurmuring through months of "rotting idleness" from one deadly "tea-party" to another.

Truth lies between the two extremes; and we are beginning to recognize the fact, which experience daily teaches us, that light, air, and motion are more potent than drugs,and that iron will not redden the cheeks, nor bark restring the nerves, so safely and so surely as moderate daily exercise out of doors.

"I do not know it because of anything that has been told to me in words," replied the Onondaga, "but O, Dagaeoga, the mind, which is often more potent than eye or ear, as I have told you so many times, is now warning me.

" At last the work was over, and in unconscious comradery they sat side by side on the broad south doorstep; the sun shining down full upon their uncovered headssmiling an unconscious blessing more potent than formula of clergy.

" "Whenever I see a sunset, I find it to be a splendid fact, une jouissance vraie, Monsieur, to think that men can paint,that these shades, which are spontaneous in the heavens, and fleeting, can be rivalled by us and made permanent,that man is more potent than light.

For the evils of society there are no solvents as potent as love and justice, and our greatest need is not more wealth and learning, but a religion replete with life and glowing with love.

Surely nothing less potent than magic had wrought this metamorphosis in the fabric of her life!

For after all there is such a thing as life, and it is more potent than theory as it also has a way of disregarding or even smashing the machine.

12 Metaphors for  potent