aqua pura

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

"You see I'm not afraid to risk a dip in the aqua pura," he said.

From The Outdoor Girls on Pine Island Or, A Cave and What It Contained by Hope, Laura Lee

Up went the spectral fan again, and out came the forty-two shillings, and, with a formal courtesy, the venerable old maid walked away with the two bottles of aqua pura in her pocket.

From The Evil Eye; Or, The Black Spector The Works of William Carleton, Volume One by Carleton, William

With pleasure, captain," said the Pythagorean, "only I wish you would adopt my principles—a vegetable diet and aqua pura.

From The Evil Eye; Or, The Black Spector The Works of William Carleton, Volume One by Carleton, William

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)