aqua pura

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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

They found the messenger serene in the belief that the "Sunset Express" was taking on nothing more stimulating and dangerous than aqua pura.

From Whirligigs by Henry, O.

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)

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

This catechism was the invariable prelude to the Major’s use of water for drinking purposes, whether in the form of aqua pura, whisky and water, or tea. 

From Cupid in Africa by Wren, P. C.