How To Use Puissant In A Sentence
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the purple patches," and unattracted, perhaps demagnetized, by a personality once fascinating and always "puissant," to appreciate the actual worth and magnitude of the poem.
The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 2
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Et par l'ordre et commandement de très-haut, très-puissant et mon très-redouté seigneur, Philippe, par la grace de Dieu, duc de Bourgogne, de
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 10 Asia, Part III
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Four motives appear to me to have been puissant in indisposing
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 100, February, 1866
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Faith is a puissant concept, yet it is problematic in isolation.
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To the New Blood: [aka: puissant snots, kids, wood gatherers … .. fresh meat.]
Why We Finally Stop Hunting
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He felt genuine awe at this superhuman man, at once so puissant, so self-possessed, so monomaniac in his demeanour.
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DISGRACE, _f. _, perte des bonnes grâces d'une personne puissante; infortune, malheur.
French Conversation and Composition
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The illustrious Narayana, otherwise called Hari, when he resolved upon Creation, thought of a Being who would be puissant enough to create the universe.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12
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Des civils massacrés pratiquement sous les yeux de Casques bleus impuissants ou indifférents: Kiwanja sera-t-il un Srebrenica congolais?
In the Congo, Fighting Continues
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She was born among the nobles of the senators of Rome, and of the lineage of the noble Gregois, rich of good and puissant of seignory at
The Golden Legend, vol. 3
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Here and there might have been discerned a frown at these revelations concerning a most puissant noble of the English Crown, but the overriding reaction was an untrammeled delight in the scandal.
Sick Cycle Carousel
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Il renverse les puissants de leurs trônes, il élève les humbles.
MAGNIFICAT
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By contrast, the last accidental tear-gassing was years ago, so feel free to leave your gas mask at home, unless you are intent on making a particularly puissant political fashion statement.
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Stained and morning-breathèd, we woke in Atocha, to puissant concussions alow the ground.
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As well as being a showcase for the fat knight, a contemporary lord of misrule, and a not-so-subtle piece of Tudor propaganda, it must also tell the story of the transformation of the Prince of Wales from prodigal son into the puissant monarch who will shortly fulfil every English ambition and declare waron France.
Henry IV Parts 1 and 2
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Journeying forth to the big city in search of help, Flik mistakes the members of a broken-down flea circus for puissant warriors, brings them back home and presents them as the colony's saviors.
Oy Story: 'Cars 2' Is a Dollar-Driven Edsel
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To use it to describe one's negative reaction to an author's treatment of a text creates a dissonance of sorts - rape is bad, usually refers to things that women/men suffer at the hands of men/women, and has become something of a conversation killer/dampener due to the semantics and paralanguage embedded these days (especially in the US - I'd argue mostly due to rape survivor advocacy centers not not to any sort of puissant puritanism still lingering in my country).
On Profanity: 4
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No man may be a Hero until he repudiates the female influence and joins the great company of puissant men!
A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
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An Obama Foreign Policy Adviser Clarifies Senator's Views
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Tout à coup, les deux jolies figurantes placées devant le rideau de la coulisse en écartent les plis, et Duhsanta, l'arc et les flèches à la main, paraît monté sur un char; son cocher tient les rênes; lancés à la poursuite d'une gazelle imaginaire, ils simulent par leurs gestes la rapidité de la course; leurs stances pittoresques et descriptives suggèrent à l'imagination un décor que la peinture serait impuissante à tracer.
Translations of Shakuntala and Other Works
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Every word testifies that they were indited by a writer of puissant individuality, disengaged from the shackles of conventional homiletics, and boldly striking out on untrodden paths.
Jewish Literature and Other Essays
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The whilk Swedish feathers, although they look gay to the eye, resembling the shrubs or lesser trees of ane forest, as the puissant pikes, arranged in battalia behind them, correspond to the tall pines thereof, yet, nevertheless, are not altogether so soft to encounter as the plumage of a goose.
A Legend of Montrose
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'O Vierge! je te conjure par la vertu du Dieu tout-puissant, par des neuf chœurs des anges, par la vertu gosdrienne, amène moi icelle fille, en chair et en os, afin que _je la saboule_ à mon plaisir.'
Aphrodisiacs and Anti-aphrodisiacs: Three Essays on the Powers of Reproduction
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A savoir si je peux continuer d'avancer sans crainte de tomber sur un boss de fin bien plus puissant ...
Pinku-tk Diary Entry
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She took a deep breath and held it, raised her head, and gave him a puissant look.
A Girl's Legs Stirring The Air
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He was married to a puissant woman of endemic energy.
Whiplash Marriage
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The coldest-blooded amongst us, Mr. Massingham of _The Nation_ for example, must confess that it was a moment rich in the emotion which bestows immortality on incident when this son of a village schoolmaster, who grew up in a shoemaker's shop, and whose boyish games were played in the street of a Welsh hamlet remote from all the refinements of civilization and all the clangours of industrialism, announced to a breathless Europe without any pomposity of phrase and with but a brief and contemptuous gesture of dismissal the passing away from the world's stage of the Hapsburgs and Hohenzollerns -- those ancient, long glorious, and most puissant houses whose history for an æon was the history of
The Mirrors of Downing Street Some Political Reflections by a Gentleman with a Duster
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Hassop was at ease, relaxed, just a little beglamoured by the idea of intimacy with his puissant chief, just a little intoxicated by the knowledge that his film cannister contained Ben Reich's fate.
Wild Dreams of Reality, 5
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Nevertheless, these apprehension are in of economic crisis puissant and oppressive fell to become the history.
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This depiction of the relationship between reader and book seems all the more puissant in light of discussion about the ‘competition’ between technology and book culture.
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So once again they manage to juxtapose the puissant music with the borderline puerile ideas, ensorcelling you before dropping you with an abrupt thud.
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Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks.
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So once again they manage to juxtapose the puissant music with the borderline puerile ideas, ensorcelling you before dropping you with an abrupt thud.
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Les journées intégrales sont là pour vous donner des clés et vous permettre de faire l'expérience d'outils puissants afin de vous positionner pour passer à l'action en vue de votre épanouissement le plus complet et de votre implication pour créer le monde dans le lequel vous voulez vivre.
Archive 2009-02-15
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She was the daughter of the puissant Charles the Fifth, but her mother was only the daughter of a citizen of Oudenarde; of a "quidam" like the nameless weaver who had thus been burned by her express order.
The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Complete (1555-66)
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a French translation, a Parisian critic -- I am almost certain it was M. Gustave Kahn in the "Gil Blas" -- giving me a short notice, summed up his rapid impression of the writer's quality in the words _un puissant reveur_.
A Personal Record
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Thou art called Hari and Narayana, O puissant one.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12
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Was there nothing that puissant emperor could not do?
June 21st, 2009
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But the Republican Party does believe in the United States remaining supine and dreaming that it is all-puissant and invincible.
The Principles of the Republican Party: A Rare Unpublished Jack London Essay
