aqua pura

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I suppose I consumed some nine gallons of aqua pura during the morning: you can do this with impunity, because there is no ice in it, and the bacteria are of the most wholesome kind.

From A Pessimist In Theory and Practice by Bird, Frederic Mayer

This vegetable always flourishes in a moist soil, though it generally has a holy horror of aqua pura.

From Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 18, July 30, 1870 by Various

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

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)

M. Capiat hanc dosim ter die in aqua pura.

From Wives and Daughters by Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn