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The king introduced some of his most significant reforms as an advertisement of his own ever more puissant authority.
By his death in 1905, he had assembled a seemingly puissant empire of two iron furnaces, extensive ore mines, and two railroads.
A lotus in bloom, an emblem of purity and beauty, is at the bottom, and a "lion puissant" surmounts it.
Milton's notion of England as a "noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep"
When he died, he left his kingdom to the queen, my mother, who is also a princess, the daughter of another puissant monarch of the sea.
Why should there not be intelligent and puissant beings distinct from those perceptible to senses?
The book was dedicated to: "the most high, puissant, and redoubted prince, Henry VIII, King of England, France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith".