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

O Jesus, Lord and Master of my heart!" she rejoined, "I cannot feel consoled so long as I know that the soul of my friend is suffering so much in the Purgatorial fire.

From Purgatory by Sadlier, Mrs. James

The case was really serious since Bill could not smoke, a smokeless hour was for him a Purgatorial period, his favourite friend was his fag.

From The Red Horizon by MacGill, Patrick

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

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