In the Senate and House they heard the voices of men afterward potent in public councils.

He came on foot, driving his cow; his wife following in the wagon, with their little stock of household goods,not forgetting his hammer, more potent than Prospero's wand.

The event was potent as the cross

So the place is trebly sacred, its waters potent for purification, no matter how great one's sin.

But that night, sitting in state within her great hall of Mortain, the Duchess Helen sighed deep and oft, scarce heeding the courtesies addressed to her and little the whispered homage of her guest Duke Ivo, he, the proudest and most potent of all her many wooers; yet to-night her cheek burned beneath his close regard and her woman's flesh rebelled at his contact as had never been aforetime.

Deedsdeeds of terror had left their imprint upon his brow, in the shadows under his eyes, that resembled blank walls potent with invisible meaning.

he reflected, for here, again, were castby love-letters potent to breed mischief; and his talk with Polly Ashmeade had been peculiarly reminiscent of his more ancient talk with Clarice Pendomer.

" Its juice has long been deemed potent against warts, and a Lincolnshire cure for eyes affected by rheumatism or weakness is a poultice made of rotten apples.

He left a legacy to his successors which makes them still potent on the earth, in spite of reformations and revolutions, and all the triumphs of literature and science.

She now flattered herself that her powers of fascination, proved so potent over Cæsar and Antony, might subdue Octavian.

The idea, so potent at Anvik, of having a tea-kettle in reservewell, the notion lost weight, and the kettle seemed to gain.

But they are potent by their care for the high rank Of dervishes.

Now the name of Pete Walker was potent along the frontier, because of his influence with the wild mountain-men, who did reckless deeds on his account, unknown to him and otherwise.

Knowing well how magnetic passion is in its guise of Southern fervor, he did not know that it is also potent under the cloak of Northern solemnity.

Bobby's fingers still responded to the charnel feeling of cold, inactive flesh suddenly become alive and potent beneath his touch.

Bills.~ At the first of the month I grow morbid and sad; As I gaze on that pile I believe In the saying that never was potent before "'Tis more blessed to give than receive.

I do not observe that the manes or ghost of a dead Head-man receives any worship or service calculated to fix him in the tribal memory, and so lead to the evolution of a deity, though one Head-man was potent through the whole Dieyri tribe over three hundred miles of country.