Purgatoire
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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It was natural enough for the Colorado cowboys to transform "Purgatoire river" to "Picketwire river."
From The Word Hoosier; John Finley Indiana Historical Society Publications, Volume IV, Number 2 by Dunn, Jacob Piatt
The little grove spreads across a slope half a mile wide between the base of one towering cliff, still bearing its Spanish name, El Capitan, and the gorge of the Purgatoire.
From Nan of Music Mountain by Wyeth, N. C. (Newell Convers)
Soon after he entered our State, near the place where the Purgatoire River empties into the Arkansas, he discovered the Rocky Mountains, then known as the Mexican Mountains.
From Colorado?The Bright Romance of American History by Grable, F. C.
WE have just come in from a drive to the Purgatoire with Colonel Knight behind his handsome horses.
From Army Letters from an Officer's Wife, 1871-1888 by Roe, Frances Marie Antoinette Mack
Hundreds of flathead chubs were collected in such pools in the Purgatoire and Arkansas rivers.
From Geographic Variation in the North American Cyprinid Fish, Hybopsis gracilis by Cross, Frank B.
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