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  • One year in purgatory.†   (source)
  • Three weeks into the new year, the snow finally rescued me from my purgatory of guilt.†   (source)
  • Each morning after breakfast and prayers she sat us down at the table and poked the backs of our heads with her index finger, bending us over our schoolbooks (and Ruth May her coloring), getting us in shape for Purgatory, I'd reckon.†   (source)
  • "I don't know if this is a dream or purgatory" And I don't know how he means that.†   (source)
  • Paul didn't think so but he wasn't sure , not being sure of things, he knew, was a charmless corner of purgatory reserved for writers who were driving fast with no idea at all where they were going.†   (source)
  • In front of the dark doors of Purgatory my bleached bones were laid to rest.†   (source)
  • If the rest of you want to stay in this uncivilized purgatory, that's your prerogative, but I'm returning to the city.†   (source)
  • Instead, she'd close herself up in her room and pray for any de la Torre souls stuck up in purgatory.†   (source)
  • He's headed for the Purgatory this time, I bet.†   (source)
  • NEW ARRIVALS in Federal prison are stuck in a sort of purgatory for the first month or so, when they are "A&Os"—admissions and orientation status.†   (source)
  • You'll spend less time in Purgatory.†   (source)
  • It was true that her muscles still revolted after a night in the tent and the shower facilities were an inconvenience at best, purgatory at worst, but despite herself she was relaxing.†   (source)
  • This is more like purgatory.†   (source)
  • With no clock, no mercy rule and darkness hours away, it seemed as if nothing would rescue them from this purgatory.†   (source)
  • wednesday september 2nd — five days to purgatory — 10:00 a.m.†   (source)
  • That day I stopped praying (before I stopped praying altogether) for the souls in purgatory and devoted all my Hail Marys to the kids in limbo, even though I knew it probably wouldn't do them any good.†   (source)
  • The whole time I've been in Indiana, which is all my life— the purgatory years, I call them—we've apparently lived just eleven miles away from the highest point in the state.†   (source)
  • But all in all this dim purgatory was a far better place to be than any of the barracks—even the one where for the previous six months she had lived with several dozen other relatively privileged female prisoners who worked in the camp offices.†   (source)
  • He turned to Helen again, "We inhabit the same purgatory, Mrs. Bragg, the dark level of not knowing."†   (source)
  • Ill The priest, with his long bland face supported on one finger, had been talking for ten minutes about Purgatory while Mrs. McIntyre squinted furiously at him from an opposite chair.†   (source)
  • Is this purgatory, and if it is, why is it so much like the first grade?†   (source)
  • You're saying you think Peter Solomon is ....in purgatory?†   (source)
  • I thought you said Peter was in 'purgatory.'†   (source)
  • To expect an invitation and then not to receive one was a foretaste of Purgatory.†   (source)
  • "No, I think he's headed for the Purgatory River," Augustus said.†   (source)
  • You take Pea and Deets and ride up the Purgatory River until you find Blue Duck.†   (source)
  • Anyone who had seen the lurid Bosch painting of the same name understood the jab; the painting, like the forest, was dark and twisted, a purgatory for freaks and fetishists.†   (source)
  • Until the summer of '62, I thought that childhood and adolescence were a purgatory without apparent end; I thought that youth, in a word, "sucked."†   (source)
  • Langdon had expected a modicum of sanity from the Architect of the Capitol, but now it seemed Warren Bellamy was no more rational than the madman claiming Peter was in purgatory.†   (source)
  • He is in purgatory ....Hamistagan.†   (source)
  • "To Purgatory," Rita answered.†   (source)
  • And what is Purgatory?†   (source)
  • It might last a whole purgatory — or for ever.†   (source)
  • Bounds had been set to this unhallowed purgatory.†   (source)
  • All this, then, was to be paid for in endless purgatory.†   (source)
  • So, in deference to public opinion, he skipped all mention of Purgatory.†   (source)
  • When she dies, her soul will wander through Purgatory through all eternity.†   (source)
  • If you had ever been to Patrick's Purgatory, you would know what I mean.†   (source)
  • Francie began the prayer for the souls in Purgatory.†   (source)
  • No, you were not listening you didn't have to: then the dogs stirred, rose; you looked up and sure enough, just as your father had said he would, Luster had halted the mule and the two horses in the rain about fifty yards from the cedars, sitting there with his knees drawn up under the towsack and enclosed by the cloudy vapor of the steaming animals as though he were looking at you and your father out of some lugubrious and painless purgatory.†   (source)
  • I remember I was in a fishmarket square in Naples (and the Neapolitans are people who don't give up easily on consanguinity)—this fishmarket where the mussels were done up in bouquets with colored string and slices of lemon, squids rotting out their sunk speckles from their flabbiness, steely fish bleeding and others with peculiar coins of scales—and I saw an old beggar with his eyes closed sitting in the shells who had had written on his chest in mercurochrome: Profit by my imminent death to send a greeting to your loved ones in Purgatory: 50 lire.†   (source)
  • Many centuries previously a profane writer had claimed to reveal a secret of the Church by declaring that purgatory did not exist.†   (source)
  • When she had finished her prayers for those beneath the roof of Tara, her father, mother, sisters, three dead babies and "all the poor souls in Purgatory," she clasped her white beads between long fingers and began the Rosary.†   (source)
  • "Because of you, my soul has been able to get through purgatory," he said to her when he was in his own bed.†   (source)
  • For the rest of her days, his mother had a mass said once a month for the repose of his soul which she knew wandered about in Purgatory.†   (source)
  • Nevertheless, there may well have been periods of history when purgatory could not be hoped for; periods when it was impossible to speak of venial sin.†   (source)
  • When Ashley came to the part of the prayers concerning the souls in Purgatory, which Carreen had marked for him to read, he abruptly closed the book.†   (source)
  • Ashley knew that half the people present had never heard of Purgatory and those who had would take it as a personal affront, if he insinuated, even in prayer, that so fine a man as Mr. O'Hara had not gone straight to Heaven.†   (source)
  • She thought of what the priest said about Purgatory and figured it must be like the airshaft bottom only on a larger scale.†   (source)
  • Good Jesus, Whose loving heart was ever troubled by the sorrows of others, look with pity on the soul of our dear one in Purgatory.†   (source)
  • Adopting the phraseology of the neighborhood, he referred to his Brooklyn internship as going through Purgatory, when he wrote to his socially prominent fiancee in Boston.†   (source)
  • That afternoon she wrote a story about a little girl who wanted a doll so much that she was willing to give over her immortal soul to Purgatory for eternity if she could have the doll.†   (source)
  • Maybe after a while she'll get out of Purgatory because even if they say she is bad, she is good to all the people in the world who are lucky enough to run across her.†   (source)
  • Purgatory, perhaps: I have not been perfect: who has?†   (source)
  • The whole thing has been simple purgatory.†   (source)
  • Nevertheless, after I went to bed, this idea of punishment and Purgatory came back on me crushingly.†   (source)
  • She looked another way, disconcerted, and wondered how long this purgatory was to last.†   (source)
  • simple purgatory for shy and sincere souls.†   (source)
  • (To the revellers)
    A bit of purgatory 'twas for this time, merely.†   (source)
  • You see that is quite a different thing, for how many sinners there are, how many women, who have passed through the trials of this life, are now suffering and groaning in purgatory!†   (source)
  • Here and there figures spotted the twilight, turning up ashen faces to her like souls in purgatory watching the passage of a mortal through.†   (source)
  • But I love the gold and the silk which clothe the priest of Rome, and his celibacy, and the confessional, and purgatory: and in the darkness of an Italian cathedral, incense-laden and mysterious, I believe with all my heart in the miracle of the Mass.†   (source)
  • Later came midsummer, with the stifling heat, when the dingy killing beds of Durham's became a very purgatory; one time, in a single day, three men fell dead from sunstroke.†   (source)
  • 'As I understand it,' Jake concluded, 'it will be a matter of years to pray his soul out of Purgatory, and right now he's in torment.'†   (source)
  • Perhaps he prayed for the souls in purgatory or for the grace of a happy death or perhaps he prayed that God might send him back a part of the big fortune he had squandered in Cork.†   (source)
  • By and by it was long and thin, a great red snake escaped from purgatory; and then, as it slid through the rollers, you would have sworn that it was alive—it writhed and squirmed, and wriggles and shudders passed out through its tail, all but flinging it off by their violence.†   (source)
  • By means of ejaculations and prayers he stored up ungrudgingly for the souls in purgatory centuries of days and quarantines and years; yet the spiritual triumph which he felt in achieving with ease so many fabulous ages of canonical penances did not wholly reward his zeal of prayer, since he could never know how much temporal punishment he had remitted by way of suffrage for the agonizing souls; and fearful lest in the midst of the purgatorial fire, which differed from the infernal only in that it was not everlasting, his penance might avail no more than a drop of moisture, he drove his soul daily through an increasing circle of works of supererogation.†   (source)
  • "By the mercy of the devil," retorted Joannes Frollo, "these four hours and more; and I hope that they will be reckoned to my credit in purgatory.†   (source)
  • We have gone through several rounds of purgatory since you left, and I have lately got on to a worse ledge of it than ever.†   (source)
  • They would have persuaded me I was in purgatory, but I knew too well the pursy short-breathed voice of the Father Abbot.†   (source)
  • I did not call her unfeeling long; for I perceived she was in purgatory throughout the day, and wearying to find an opportunity of getting by herself, or paying a visit to Heathcliff, who had been locked up by the master: as I discovered, on endeavouring to introduce to him a private mess of victuals.†   (source)
  • This purgatory of the spirit, this animal thirst for self-preservation, these humiliating moments of the human soul, are awful, and sometimes arouse horror and compassion for the criminal even in the lawyer.†   (source)
  • She was my purgatory, monsieur!†   (source)
  • She may be the most abominable old woman in the world, and make your life a purgatory; but, after all, she is ma mere, and you have no right to judge her.†   (source)
  • In my flight through the kitchen I bid Joseph speed to his master; I knocked over Hareton, who was hanging a litter of puppies from a chair-back in the doorway; and, blessed as a soul escaped from purgatory, I bounded, leaped, and flew down the steep road; then, quitting its windings, shot direct across the moor, rolling over banks, and wading through marshes: precipitating myself, in fact, towards the beacon-light of the Grange.†   (source)
  • Out of the fryingpan of life into the fire of purgatory.†   (source)
  • I hope he's in purgatory now because he went to confession to Father Conroy on Saturday night.†   (source)
  • Our Father who art in purgatory.†   (source)
  • (Limited), Lough Neagh's banks, the vale of Ovoca, Isolde's tower, the Mapas obelisk, Sir Patrick Dun's hospital, Cape Clear, the glen of Aherlow, Lynch's castle, the Scotch house, Rathdown Union Workhouse at Loughlinstown, Tullamore jail, Castleconnel rapids, Kilballymacshonakill, the cross at Monasterboice, Jury's Hotel, S. Patrick's Purgatory, the Salmon Leap, Maynooth college refectory, Curley's hole, the three birthplaces of the first duke of Wellington, the rock of Cashel, the bog of Allen, the Henry Street Warehouse, Fingal's Cave—all these moving scenes are still there for us today rendered more beautiful still by the waters of sorrow which have passed over them and by the ric†   (source)
  • [1] [1] The boat that bears the souls to Purgatory†   (source)
  • By God, in earth I was his purgatory,
    For which I hope his soul may be in glory.†   (source)
  • As The Doctrine Of Purgatory, And Exorcismes, And Invocation Of Saints†   (source)
  • The lord of Gomita was the gentle Judge Nino, whom Dante meets in Purgatory.†   (source)
  • (which seemeth to make somewhat for Purgatory) for a Purging with Fire†   (source)
  • may be interpreted of the same; and then there will be no necessity of the Fire of Purgatory.†   (source)
  • And what is it to Purgatory, that of Psalme, 66.†   (source)
  • This Considered, what can be drawn from this text, to maintain Purgatory, I cannot imagine.†   (source)
  • Places Of The New Testament For Purgatory Answered†   (source)
  • Answer Of The Texts Alledged For Purgatory†   (source)
  • The unfortunate duenna hearing herself thus conjured, by her own fear guessed Don Quixote's and in a low plaintive voice answered, "Señor Don Quixote—if so be you are indeed Don Quixote—I am no phantom or spectre or soul in purgatory, as you seem to think, but Dona Rodriguez, duenna of honour to my lady the duchess, and I come to you with one of those grievances your worship is wont to redress."†   (source)
  • Or who does not see, to whose profit redound the Fees of private Masses, and Vales of Purgatory; with other signes of private interest, enough to mortifie the most lively Faith, if (as I sayd) the civill Magistrate, and Custome did not more sustain it, than any opinion they have of the Sanctity, Wisdome, or Probity of their Teachers?†   (source)
  • I should venture purgatory for't.†   (source)
  • "Don Quixote I am," replied Don Quixote, "he whose profession it is to aid and succour the living and the dead in their necessities; wherefore tell me who thou art, for thou art keeping me in suspense; because, if thou art my squire Sancho Panza, and art dead, since the devils have not carried thee off, and thou art by God's mercy in purgatory, our holy mother the Roman Catholic Church has intercessory means sufficient to release thee from the pains thou art in; and I for my part will plead with her to that end, so far as my substance will go; without further delay, therefore, declare thyself, and tell me who thou art."†   (source)
  • And therefore, Sir, *the beste rede I can,* *this is the best counsel
    Despair you not, but have in your memory, that I know*
    Paraventure she may be your purgatory;
    She may be Godde's means, and Godde's whip;
    And then your soul shall up to heaven skip
    Swifter than doth an arrow from a bow.†   (source)
  • If thou art a soul in torment, say so, and all that my powers can do I will do for thee; for I am a Catholic Christian and love to do good to all the world, and to this end I have embraced the order of knight-errantry to which I belong, the province of which extends to doing good even to souls in purgatory.†   (source)
  • [1] [1] This point is the centre of the universe; when Virgil had turned upon the haunch of Lucifer, the passage had been made from one hemisphere of the earth—the inhabited and known hemisphere— to the other where no living men dwell, and where the only land is the mountain of Purgatory†   (source)
  • [1] The Mount of Purgatory†   (source)
  • In which sense there is nothing that accordeth not with the rest of Holy Scripture, or any glimpse of the fire of Purgatory.†   (source)
  • Upon this Doctrine of the Naturall Eternity of separated Soules, is founded (as I said) the Doctrine of Purgatory.†   (source)
  • Tenthly, by the Doctrine of Purgatory, of Justification by externall works, and of Indulgences, the Clergy is enriched.†   (source)
  • Purgatory, Indulgences, Externall Works†   (source)
  • on the true Foundation, their work shall perish; but "they themselves shall be saved; but as through Fire:" This Fire, he will have to be the Fire of Purgatory.†   (source)
  • The texts for Purgatory alledged by Bellarmine out of the Canonicall Scripture of the old Testament, are first, the Fasting of David for Saul and Jonathan, mentioned (2 Kings, 1.†   (source)
  • Gregory the Pope, and S. Bernard have somewhat of Apparitions of Ghosts, that said they were in Purgatory; and so has our Beda: but no where, I beleeve, but by report from others.†   (source)
  • He brings in every text wherein there is the word Anger, or Fire, or Burning, or Purging, or Clensing, in case any of the Fathers have but in a Sermon rhetorically applied it to the Doctrine of Purgatory, already beleeved.†   (source)
  • "It pleased God by the Foolishnesse of preaching, to save them that beleeve:" Nor could St. Paul himself have been saved, much lesse have been so great a Doctor of the Church so suddenly, that never perhaps thought of Transsubstantiation, nor Purgatory, nor many other Articles now obtruded.†   (source)
  • before mentioned, concerning Baptisme for the Dead: out of which he concludeth, first, that Prayers for the Dead are not unprofitable; and out of that, that there is a Fire of Purgatory: But neither of them rightly.†   (source)
  • But if that which Beza sayes in his notes on this place be well observed, there is none that will not see, that in stead of Paynes, it should be Bands; and then there is no further cause to seek for Purgatory in this Text.†   (source)
  • Neverthelesse, because upon this place there hath been an argument taken, to prove the fire of Purgatory, I will also here offer you my conjecture concerning the meaning of this triall of Doctrines, and saving of men as by Fire.†   (source)
  • "Whosoever speaketh a word against the Sonne of man, it shall be forgiven him; but whosoever speaketh against the Holy Ghost, it shall not bee forgiven him neither in this world, nor in the world to come:" Where he will have Purgatory to be the World to come, wherein some sinnes may be forgiven, which in this World were not forgiven: notwithstanding that it is manifest, there are but three Worlds; one from the Creation to the Flood, which was destroyed by Water, and is called in Scripture the Old World; another from the Flood to the day of Judgement, which is the Present World†   (source)
  • any supernaturall gift of Gods; the Doctors of the Church doubted a long time, what was the place, which they were to abide in, till they should be re-united to their Bodies in the Resurrection; supposing for a while, they lay under the Altars: but afterward the Church of Rome found it more profitable, to build for them this place of Purgatory; which by some other Churches in this later age, has been demolished.†   (source)
  • why also are they Baptized for the dead?" a man may probably inferre, as some have done, that in St. Pauls time, there was a custome by receiving Baptisme for the dead, (as men that now beleeve, are Sureties and Undertakers for the Faith of Infants, that are not capable of beleeving,) to undertake for the persons of their deceased friends, that they should be ready to obey, and receive our Saviour for their King, at his coming again; and then the forgivenesse of sins in the world to come, has no need of a Purgatory.†   (source)
  • This window it is, that gives entrance to the Dark Doctrine, first, of Eternall Torments; and afterwards of Purgatory, and consequently of the walking abroad, especially in places Consecrated, Solitary, or Dark, of the Ghosts of men deceased; and thereby to the pretences of Exorcisme and Conjuration of Phantasmes; as also of Invocation of men dead; and to the Doctrine of Indulgences; that is to say, of exemption for a time, or for ever, from the fire of Purgatory, wherein these Incorporeall Substances are pretended by burning to be cleansed, and made fit for Heaven.†   (source)
  • But granting that God, at the prayers of the faithfull, may convert unto him some of those that have not heard Christ preached, and consequently cannot have rejected Christ, and that the charity of men in that point, cannot be blamed; yet this concludeth nothing for Purgatory, because to rise from Death to Life, is one thing; to rise from Purgatory to Life is another; and being a rising from Life to Life, from a Life in torments to a Life in joy.†   (source)
  • destroyed by Water, and is called in Scripture the Old World; another from the Flood to the day of Judgement, which is the Present World, and shall bee destroyed by Fire; and the third, which shall bee from the day of Judgement forward, everlasting, which is called the World To Come; and in which it is agreed by all, there shall be no Purgatory; And therefore the World to come, and Purgatory, are inconsistent.†   (source)
  • And thus with hard straining, hee has wrested those places to the proofe of a Purgatory; whereas it is manifest, that the ceremonies of Mourning, and Fasting, when they are used for the death of men, whose life was not profitable to the Mourners, they are used for honours sake to their persons; and when tis done for the death of them by whose life the Mourners had benefit, it proceeds from their particular dammage: And so David honoured Saul, and Abner, with his Fasting; and in the death of his owne child, recomforted himselfe, by receiving his ordinary food.†   (source)
  • where St. Peter saith of Christ, "that God had raised him up, and loosed the Paines of Death, because it was not possible he should be holden of it;" Which hee interprets to bee a descent of Christ into Purgatory, to loose some Soules there from their torments; whereas it is manifest, that it was Christ that was loosed; it was hee that could not bee holden of Death, or the Grave; and not the Souls in Purgatory.†   (source)
  • Onely of thus much, I see evident Scripture, to perswade men, that there is neither the word, nor the thing of Purgatory, neither in this, nor any other text; nor any thing that can prove a necessity of a place for the Soule without the Body; neither for the Soule of Lazarus during the four days he was dead; nor for the Soules of them which the Romane Church pretend to be tormented now in Purgatory.†   (source)
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