pow'r

What need we fear who knows it, when none can call our pow'r to accompt? —

Archive 2008-05-01 2008

What need we fear who knows it, when none can call our pow'r to accompt? —

Fareed Zakaria, Stupid Motherfucker 2008

We must plead with Him who has the pow'r to cleanse and to restore.

Read These Now or A Strong Wickedness Will Destroy You 2008

We must plead with Him who has the pow'r to cleanse and to restore.

Read These Now or A Strong Wickedness Will Destroy You 2008

When ordinary people ask, as they always have asked, the question “How would you like it?”, or when Robert Burns utters his famous optative “O wad some pow'r the giftie gie us/To see oorselves as ithers see us”, [26] it does not (to put it mildly) make best sense of what they are saying to attribute to them a faithful commitment to the theoretical extravagances of a high-minded Victorian moralist.

Bernard Williams Chappell, Timothy 2006

    Or waste of ocean, Neptune holds, a two-fold pow'r;

Poems and Fragments 2006

    Or waste of ocean, Neptune holds, a two-fold pow'r;

Poems and Fragments 2006

"The devil has the pow'r to assume a pleasing shape.."

When it Rains, it Pours -- More "priestesses" in Minnesota 2006

Zadah, who is universally acknowledged to be a true heir of the Tamerlane race; but his pow'r is feeble; the city of Delhi, and a small territory round it, is all that is left remaining of the house and heir of Timur, who

Sporting Sketches 2002

Let the superfluous and lust-dieted man, That slaves your ordinance, that will not see Because he does not feel, feel your pow'r quickly!

Shakespeare Bevington, David 2002