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

M. Capiat hanc dosim ter die in aqua pura.

From Wives and Daughters by Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn

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)

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

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