purgatories

The only difference is, here everything is done open and above board; what sin there is, is before your eyes, and you don't feel when you tread our streets, that you are walking over hidden hells, and sunken purgatories, which is, I think, more than you can say in behalf of your Northern cities.

The Brother Clerks A Tale of New-Orleans Mary Ashley Townsend 1866

These lakes served more efficiently as "purgatories," than the artificial basin of Caligula, nine miles below.

Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 7 Italy, Sicily, and Greece (Part One) Various 1885

Such wells or "purgatories," as they are called, are common enough in the old-fashioned kitchens of certain English districts.

Elster's Folly Henry Wood 1850

The cruelty of the Palestinian situation is that these purgatories are in no way extraordinary but rather the backdrop of daily existence.

Global Voices in English » Palestine: Allowed No Passage 2009

Hearing Carrie's voice throughout the show, narrating the bizarre situations in which the gals often find themselves, I realized that what I was listening to, my Virgil and Beatrice through the hells, purgatories and paradises of Sex in the City, was none other than Carrie's writing.

Caroline Hagood: What Sex and the City Taught Me About Writing 2010

Hearing Carrie's voice throughout the show, narrating the bizarre situations in which the gals often find themselves, I realized that what I was listening to, my Virgil and Beatrice through the hells, purgatories and paradises of Sex in the City, was none other than Carrie's writing.

What Sex and the City Taught Me About Writing 2010

Paracartography implied the making of maps, city maps, a map of this city, but not an ordinary map; a map of the city's secret terrains, the city as perceived by a divine madman, streets rendered as ecstasies or purgatories; a map legible only at night, in the dark. . .

Archive 2009-04-19 2009

The pains and purgatories of the post-Conciliar period have taught us to treat 'variety' with some caution, since pluralism comes in two forms, the legitimate and the anarchic.

Slow posting continues till mid-August... 2009

Now George McKay Brown was a practicing Catholic and wrote that story very much out of the doctrine of purgatory but we all inhabit purgatories of one sort or another in our own lives on earth, don't we?

An address given by the Archbishop 2008

Now George McKay Brown was a practicing Catholic and wrote that story very much out of the doctrine of purgatory but we all inhabit purgatories of one sort or another in our own lives on earth, don't we?

An address given by the Archbishop 2008