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powerful — especially the power to influence or coerce- Overuse of the word "disaster" has cost that word its puissance.
- the puissance of the labor vote
- They thus directed, we will follow In the main battle; whose puissance on either side Shall be well winged with our chiefest horse.William Shakespeare -- The Life and Death of King Richard III
- His black sorcerer was more puissant than all of Euron's three, even if you threw them in a pot and boiled them down to one.George R.R. Martin -- A Dance With Dragons
- The camerlegno, as if in some sort of post-traumatic trance, seemed suddenly puissant, possessed by demons.Dan Brown -- Angels & Demons
- Because he was high and puissant, and you wished to have renown and glory and to be lifted far above the mean things that crawl on the earth.J.R.R. Tolkien -- The Return of the King
- It means you could potentially be the most puissant High Priestess the vampyres have ever known.P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast -- Marked
- Sweet Petyr, surely you do not mean to suggest that these puissant lords and noble knights could be bought like so many chickens in the market.George R.R. Martin -- A Clash of Kings
- Most high, most mighty, and most puissant Caesar, Metellus Cimber throws before thy seat An humble heart.William Shakespeare -- Julius Caesar
- A most puissant warrior is our Robert, and such a manly man has little love for sneaks and spies and eunuchs.George R.R. Martin -- A Game of Thrones
- Their presence was an articulate tribute to the force and puissance of men united by indivisible will, by absolute conviction.Pat Conroy -- The Lords of Discipline
- "Mais, assez puissant!" said the other porter sagely.F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Tender is the Night
- You feel in the atmosphere the same tonic, puissant quality that is in the tilth, the same strength and resoluteness.Willa Cather -- O Pioneers!
- How comes all this, if there be not something puissant in whaling?Herman Melville -- Moby Dick
- That he should draw his several strengths together And come against us in full puissance, Need not be dreaded.William Shakespeare -- Henry IV, Part 2
- "Your Grace," said Whitebeard, "the Prince of Dragonstone was a most puissant warrior, but ...."George R.R. Martin -- A Storm of Swords
- And I shall not fail you, said Sir Dinadan, unto my puissance, upon my life.Thomas Malory -- Le Morte D'Arthur, Volume II
- My fatherland, city of Thebes divine, Ye gods of Thebes whence sprang my line, Look, puissant lords of Thebes, on me; The last of all your royal house ye see.Sophocles -- Antigone
- Most Puissant One.Roger Zelazny -- Lord of Light
- Thus grows up Fashion, an equivocal semblance, the most puissant, the most fantastic and frivolous, the most feared and followed, and which morals and violence assault in vain.Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Selected Essays
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