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puissant in English:

1. mighty


The mighty warrior defeated his enemy.
The barbarians faced a mighty army.
A mighty cheer burst from the crowd.
mighty jungle
Praise him for his mighty acts: Praise him according to his excellent greatness.
In the next ​game they will ​face the mighty Patriots.
He was a mighty man.
The boulder dropped from the cliff and rolled down the hill with a mighty rumble.
That was a hard day. I'm mighty tired.
... had many resources and mighty ambitions, but the one...
My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!
There's somethin' mighty queer behind this, Scott!
Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.
Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life.

English word "puissant"(mighty) occurs in sets:

Fiches du livre - "Handyman" (Frank Banta)
Fiches du livre - "In the World" (Maxim Gorky)
Fiches du livre - "Sea Garden" (Hilda Doolittle)
Fiches du livre - "Francezka" (Molly Elliot Seawell)
Fiches du livre - "A Man Obsessed" (Alan Edward No...

2. powerful


He is powerful.
He has powerful connections in the publishing industry.
A nation need not necessarily be powerful to be great.
In South Korea, the most powerful member of a family, usually the oldest living male, has the power to send members of his family to a psychiatric hospital as he sees fit.
The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history.
That is what I will try to do – to speak the truth as best I can, humbled by the task before us, and firm in my belief that the interests we share as human beings are far more powerful than the forces that drive us apart.
In real life kings are powerful, but in chess they're pretty much worthless.
When two powerful forces with opposite ideals come face to face, it's time for a showdown.
Last week the powerful Keidanren called on Tokyo to lift the ban.
What would happen if two powerful nations with different languages - such as United States and China - would agree upon the experimental teaching of Esperanto in elementary schools?
Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
In ancient Rome, the bodyguards who surrounded the wealthy and powerful to protect them when they walked the streets, were called satellites.
The powerful farming lobby is pressurizing the government to change the law.
A dog’s powerful sense of smell helps it find illegal objects in people’s luggage.
Undoubtedly, one of the film's biggest assets is Joseph Gordon-Levitt, who gives a powerful performance as the title character.

English word "puissant"(powerful) occurs in sets:

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Fiches du livre - "Westerfelt" (Will N. Harben)
Fiches du livre - "Tracy Park" (Mary Jane Holmes)
Fiches du livre - "Eskimo Life" (Fridtjof Nansen)
Fiches du livre - "The Ice Queen" (Ernest Ingersoll)

3. potful



English word "puissant"(potful) occurs in sets:

Fiches du livre - "Pansy's Sunday Book" (Various)
Fiches du livre - "The Ice Queen" (Ernest Ingersoll)
Fiches du livre - "Sabotage in Space" (Carey Rockw...
Fiches du livre - "When I Was a Boy in Japan" (Sak...
Fiches du livre - "Stories and Pictures" (Isaac Lo...