"Potency" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... out of which breathed a potency of passion and allurement. Voices rich with the gold of love's abandon sang the songs of composers, wholly dedicated to love's ...
— The Tyranny of Weakness • Charles Neville Buck
... have very soon come into play. In the conquests of modern industrialism, the secondary passions have been almost wholly dominant, since those who directed them had no need to fear hunger or thirst. It is the potency of vanity and love of power that gives hope for the industrial future of Soviet Russia, since it enables the Communist State to enlist in its service men whose abilities might give them vast wealth ...
— The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism • Bertrand Russell
... differentiation is furthered by the inheritance of wealth and the consequent inheritance of gentility. With the inheritance of gentility goes the inheritance of obligatory leisure; and gentility of a sufficient potency to entail a life of leisure may be inherited without the complement of wealth required to maintain a dignified leisure. Gentle blood may be transmitted without goods enough to afford a reputably free ...
— The Theory of the Leisure Class • Thorstein Veblen
... not depreciate the potency of your charms, mademoiselle. Who, having seen you once, could help hoping to see ...
— Alias The Lone Wolf • Louis Joseph Vance
... changed the charge of his gun, cutting the size of the path the volts covered, thereby increasing the potency of the discharge. The piled bodies sizzled, and to Asher's nose came a sulphurous smell. Then, there was nothing ...
— Astounding Stories of Super-Science, June, 1930 • Various
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