aqua pura

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Down it went, pushing a column of compressed aqua pura ahead of it and sucking a big black hole along in its wake.

From Down the Columbia by Freeman, Lewis R. (Lewis Ransome)

"Quinine, yes; aqua pura," he murmured, looking at another.

From Charlotte's Inheritance by Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)

But the show was a frost, though Lillah gave an excellent imitation, with the aid of a toy spider, of a Hun inserting bacilli into the nation's aqua pura.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, March 8, 1916 by Seaman, Owen, Sir

M. Capiat hanc dosim ter die in aqua pura.

From Wives and Daughters by Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn

In Europe, for instance, light wines cannot be produced without 'liquor,' as the trade calls aqua pura, by latitudes lower than Germany and Southern France.

From To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir