How To Use posset In A Sentence
- In addition, both fresh and dried roots were used in medicine -- in a posset bryony was said to cure shortness of breath. Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine
- An English creation, it descended from a hot British drink called posset, which consists of eggs, milk, and ale or wine. HOMEMADE VEGAN "PUMPKIN NOG" (AND IT'S A "NOG", NOT A MILKSHAKE!)
- Tertiam denique mediam scientiam, qua ex altissima et inscrutabili comprehensione cujusque liberi arbitrii in sua essentia intuitus est, quid pro sua innata libertate, si in hoc, vel illo, vel etiam infinitis rerum ordinibus collocaretur, acturum esset, cum tamen posset, si vellet, facere re reipsa oppositum.... Rough Notes on Scientia Media
- The caudle cup, sometimes called a posset cup, is met with both without and with cover, and in some instances it is accompanied by a stand or tray. Chats on Household Curios
- Quod si ver� cum illius gratia vlterior illac nauigatio detur, suaderem profecto non prim鵰 Tabin promontorium qu鎟ere, atque explorare, sed Sinum hunc atque flumina, in ijsque portum aliquem commodissimum, station閙que Anglicis Mercatoribus deligere, ex quo deinceps maiore opportunitate, minorib鷖que periculis Tabin promontorium, et totius Cathai circumnauigatio indagari posset. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
- Ferre non possunt ut illorum Messias communis servator sit, nostrum gaudium, &c. Messias vel decem decies crucifixuri essent, ipsumque Deum si id fieri posset, una cum angelis et creaturis omnibus, nec absterretur ab hoc facto et si mille interna subeunda forent. Anatomy of Melancholy
- A lemon posset was fine on flavour, but slightly overset. Jay Rayner's restaurant review
- I could recover myself into any composure for thinking, the maid came in with her mistress's service, and a small silver orringer of what she called a bridal posset, and desired me to eat it as I went to bed, which consequently I did, and felt immediately a heat, a fire run like a hue-and-cry through every part of my body; I burnt, I glowed, and wanted even little of wishing for any man. Memoirs Of Fanny Hill A New and Genuine Edition from the Original Text (London, 1749)
- Cum innumera illius beneficia rependere non posset aliter, interfici jussit. Anatomy of Melancholy
- We settled on lemon and tayberry posset.
