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potentate a person who possesses great power or authority, esp a ruler or monarch How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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"Ah, a good little wife, making the best of it," and the female potentate patted my hand, but continued gloomily to shake her head. I come down here, for instance, and I find a mighty potentate exacting homage. I said that if that potentate must go over in our ship, why, I supposed he must --but that to my thinking, when the United States considered it necessary to send a dignitary of that tonnage across the ocean, it would be in better taste, and safer, to take him apart and cart him over in sections in several ships. |
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