"Pur" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... and to introduce the rites of fire, and worship of the Sun. Upon the coast, of which I have been speaking, a temple of this sort was founded, which is called Torone. The name is a compound of Tor-On, as I have before taken notice. The words purathus, and puratheia, were, in the language of Egypt, Pur-Ath, and Por-Ait, formed from two titles of the God of fire. Out of one of these the Grecians made a personage, which they expressed [Greek: Proitos], Proetus, whose daughters, or rather priestesses, were the Proetides. And as they followed the Egyptian rites, and held a Cow sacred, they were, in ...
— A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume II. (of VI.) • Jacob Bryant
... Ventoureso matiniero, En trespirant dins la sourniero Dis aubre, fernissie coume un pur cantadis, Ounte di colo e di vallado, Touti li voues en assemblado, Mandavon sa boufaroulado. Li mele ...
— Frederic Mistral - Poet and Leader in Provence • Charles Alfred Downer
... la mort le tresprent Devers la teste sur le quer li descent. Desuz un pin i est alez curanz Sur l'erbe verte si est culchiez adenz Desuz lui met s'espee e l'olifant Turnat sa teste vers la paiene gent. Pur co l'ad fait que il voelt veirement Que Carles diet et trestute sa gent Li gentils quens quil ...
— Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres • Henry Adams
... Sandy's outer cat. He was of a pure breed, far removed from the long-legged, lanky race of ordinary station-cats, who from time to time disappeared into the bush and contracted alliances with the still more degraded specimens of their class who had long been wild among the scrub. No: Sandy came of "pur sang," and held his small square head erect, with a haughty carriage as beseemed his ancestry. His fur was really beautiful, a sort of tortoiseshell red, the lighter stripes repeating exactly the different golden tints of a fashionable chignon. In early youth, ...
— Station Amusements • Lady Barker
... simple, uniform, of a piece [Fr.], homogeneous, single, pure, sheer, neat. unmixed, unmingled^, unblended, uncombined, uncompounded; elementary, undecomposed; unadulterated, unsophisticated, unalloyed, untinged^, unfortified, pur et simple [Fr.]; incomplex^. free from, exempt from; exclusive. Adv. simple &c ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget
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