purgatorial

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Those years which dance Like leaves that float away And fall Beneath the Southern Cross And slowly shrivel np In seaweed grays and Purgatorial browns.

From Time Magazine Archive

Those Purgatorial ardencies for the gentle suggestion of torment to thin shades can have little in common with these perspiration-compelling torridities.

From Early Letters of George Wm. Curtis by Cooke, George Willis

At Antwerp the cakes are coloured yellow with saffron to suggest the Purgatorial flames.

From Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan by Miles, Clement A.

Purgatorial pains—unless indeed they should prove eternal—are insufficient punishment for the impious man who invented Allegory.

From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) by Wilson, John Lyde

On the second terrace of the Ante-Purgatory, on the Purgatorial Mount, were the spirits of those whose lives were ended by violence.

From National Epics by Rabb, Kate Milner