It is curious when a new subject of trouble or anxiety has been suggested to the mind in an unexpected way, how often a second advertisement follows immediately after the first, and gives to that a potency which in itself it had not possessed.

Not that she believed her father capable of murder or its procuration, but, knowing his potency with the authorities, she saw that there were many ways in which Jack might be sacrificed in the natural course of military duties.

But they had not sufficiently considered the potency of her wrath, or the desperate means of revenge to which she could resort; nor had they considered those other influences which had been gradually undermining their influence,even the sarcasms of the Jansenists, the ridicule of the philosophers, and the invectives of the parliaments.

But the spell seemed to have lost its potency.

They live in small family or boarding house units and, having no common meeting place, realize only with difficulty the mighty potency of their vast numbers.

Do not depreciate the potency of your charms, mademoiselle.

He then hopes to find a Retarder, with which to dilute its present rather excessive potency.

Watt had recently discovered the potency of steam vapour as a motive power; but its only use at first was for pumping water out of the mines.

Love alone is wisdom, love alone is power; and where love seems to fail it is where self has stepped between and dulled the potency of its rays.

Through the Scriptures, gathering potency as it goes, runs the same grim decree, with widening definitions.

The higher one goes, the greater its potency, and Pedro was from the headwaters.

They said that they loathe the sex on account of their having no potency.

Not Theophil onlynot young love, that, for all his smitten heart, has somewhere hidden away the potencies of his unspent life, and will still have his dream, though sorrow itself should become that dreambut this poor old mother, all the force of her days spent, the sap of her spirit dried up.

Sexual relations held for Mahomet towards the end of his life a peculiar potency, born of his intense energetic nature.

Blest is he Who in such strife is named the referee: To brightfaced Ganymede full oft he'll cry To lend his lip the potencies that lie Within that stone with which the usurers Detect base metal, and which never errs. IDYLL XIII.

But herein we miscalculated the potency of liquor and a comfortable bed of hay, for 'twas nine o'clock before either of us winked an eye, and when we got down, we learnt that Don Sanchez had been gone a full hour, and so no prospect of breaking our fast till nightfall.

So much strength and youth went into them long ago that even yet they have strength and youth to give, and from them, as from the strong hills, pours out an inexhaustible potency of bracing influence.

When Jesus of Nazareth proclaimed its potency from the hilltops of Palestine he gave to mankind the key to health and heaven, and earned the title of "Savior of the World."

But he still needed to prove his potency in real ways, and at regular intervals, in order to ensure their continued participation.

From this art of Solomon, exhibited through the medium of a ring or seal, we have the Eastern stories which celebrate the seal of Solomon, and record the potency of his sway over the various orders of demons or of genii, who were supposed to be the invincible tormentors or benefactors of the human race.

The Springs are a mile or two away; the water is supposed to possess rare medicinal virtues, and invalids still come to test its potency, but there is no life, no gayety; the Springs and the village are quite forlorn.

"If David tamed the evil spirit of Saul, it may not be amiss to try the potency of music here.

In verse 18 there is a reference to the superstition that at dawn, when these jewels are exposed to the first rays of the sun, they emit a fine vapor which wafts abroad their subtle potency.

For Hera kindled within those sons of gods the all-persuading sweet desire for the ship Argo, that none should be left behind and stay by his mother's side in savourless and riskless life, but each, even were death the price, achieve in company with his peers a magic potency of his valour.

Since the Goths' invading tide Wrecked Rome's potency and pride, Something wonderful has vanished, something exquisite has died; And in spite of modern fame