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  • But life, splendid and invincible, not to be thwarted, changed the direction of its advance, and reason became the all-potent developmental factor.

    The Kempton-Wace Letters 2010

  • (This was in reference to his all-potent and all-awful shotgun.) "I can kill you any time, and then you will not get my head."

    THE RED ONE 2010

  • The omnipotent Lord can impregnate just by His eyes, and therefore He is called all-potent.

    Vedic creationists in the U.S. - The Panda's Thumb 2006

  • Praise exercises an all-potent influence, not only upon the feelings, but also upon the intellect; so that under the influence of that agreeable sensation I straightway felt much cleverer than before, and thoughts began to rush with extraordinary rapidity through my head.

    Boyhood 2003

  • To that all-potent and all-merciful drug I am indebted for a respite of many years from my sentence of death.

    The Moonstone 2003

  • Earlier the conspiracy was monolithic, all-potent, nothing he could ever touch.

    Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas 1978

  • The all-potent vitality which ceaselessly envelops him takes away from him in a vast degree the exertion of amusing himself.

    The French Immortals Series — Complete Various

  • This action enabled the females to get safely out of his reach, and when free from danger, although their hearts still beat with the excitement, they soon became calm, and, seeing that he was ignominiously subjugated by the charm of the all-potent pipe, indulged in the most extravagant laughter, and shouts of applause at his sudden defeat, and at the ridiculous posture in which he was held.

    Seven and Nine years Among the Camanches and Apaches An Autobiography Edwin Eastman

  • He was not a "_trencher chaplain_" but the slave of a rich debauchée, Callion, sent in company with another slave, Percas, to carry some all-potent nostrum to Fibullius, a friend of Callion, who was suffering from an attack of stone.

    Notes and Queries, Number 02, November 10, 1849 Various

  • The all-potent influence of self-interest, the overshadowing sway of undisputed dogmas, soon sweep away the lessons and prejudices of earlier years, and effectually transform the foreign born into the citizen of the new clime and nation.

    The Continental Monthly, Vol. III, No. V, May, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various

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