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Example sentences for "purus"

Lexicographically close words:
purtended; purtier; purtiest; purty; purulent; purvey; purveyance; purveyaunce; purveyd; purveyed
  1. In the genealogical system of the Mahabharata the Purus are brought into close connection with the Kurus.

  2. The Purus are described as living on both banks of the Sarasvati.

  3. Under the circle of the ignis niger there was another circle in the likeness of the purus aether which was of the same width as the two conjoined [outer] fiery circles.

  4. The purus aether, however, resisted these ashes and vapours, seeking to hold back these plagues.

  5. She had thus placed the moon and two of the moving stars in the purus aether, and the sun and the three remaining moving stars in the lucidus ignis.

  6. Enwrapping the aer aquosus is the purus aether, the widest of all the zones.

  7. Uppermost is the purus aether or aer lucidus containing the stars and representing the element air in Hildegard’s cosmic system.

  8. Also the purus aether and the fortis et albus lucidusque aer seemed to be full of stars which sent forth their rays towards the clouds, whence .

  9. Scattered through the purus aether are the constellations of the fixed stars, and arranged along the long axis are the moon and the two inner planets.

  10. And above the head of the figure the seven planets were ranged in order, three in the lucidus ignis, one projecting into the ignis niger and three into the purus aether.

  11. They descend from the ignis niger, attenuate for a space in the purus aether, and then descend through the other zones on to an arid and parched land.

  12. Above the head of the figure in the zone of the purus aether, I saw the head of the leopard emitting a blast from its mouth, and on the right side of the mouth the blast, curving itself somewhat backwards, was formed into a crab’s head .

  13. The purus aether, containing the west wind, the moon, the two inner planets, and certain fixed stars.

  14. The position and constitution of this purus aether is evidently the result of some misinterpretation of Aristotelian writings.

  15. But at last they sighted the Purus in the distance.

  16. Now that our work is finished, we'd better get to the Purus at once.

  17. The Purus is noted for its crooked course," remarked Professor Bigelow.

  18. At last the Selvas came to the Purus River, and down this it steamed.

  19. By chance we met the captain of a small freight vessel that happens to be going up the Purus to Acre, on the Bolivian frontier," said Mr. Holton.

  20. The Brazilian explained that they had been used by a party of British hunters on the Purus River, and were purchased when the men were through with them for a small sum.

  21. We intend to follow the Amazon to the Purus River, where we'll branch off and travel by native canoes for approximately five hundred miles.

  22. Javary as the frontier, which gave to Brazil a large area of territory; but when the valuable rubber forests of the upper Purus became known the Brazilians invaded them and demanded another modification of the boundary line.

  23. The name of Yayati's son, Puru, is borrowed from a name which in the Veda designates the Bharatas, who in these poems are variously called Purus and Bharatas.

  24. Purus dagkug abalwasiyun ang mga yútà dinhi sa syudad, The lots in the city all have high assessments.

  25. Purus tagdiyis, Those are of the same class.

  26. The Brazilians who mounted the Purus and the Jurua did not stop at the Bolivian frontier; a war with Bolivia very nearly broke out on the subject of these lands, which a few years earlier had not even been explored.

  27. The seekers of rubber dispersed themselves throughout Amazonia; but the region most regularly exploited was the basin of the Rio Purus and that of the Rio Jurua.

  28. The substance of Spirit we do not know--it not being knowable, it being a purus actus.

  29. When the Purus Indians of South America receive a knife from Europeans they break off the handle, and fashion the knife according to their own ideas, placing the blade between two pieces of wood, and binding it round tight with a sinew.

  30. The only other race that is known to make use of the throwing stick is the Purus-Purus Indians of South America, inhabiting a tributary of the Amazon.

  31. And all from following his own thought that had made him a purus putus Atheist.

  32. Indeed, since God is purus actus without any passivity, it may be said that there is, if possible, less communication in this case than in the others.

  33. But there are various degrees of activity, and each grade lower than the purus actus may be rightfully regarded as in so far passive.

  34. God alone is purus actus, absolute energy, untouched by passivity or receptivity.

  35. Of all these six rivers, the Purus is the most important.

  36. The Purus communicates with the Madeira, proving the absence of rapids and of intervening mountains.

  37. As the Madeira, Tapajos, and Purus subside, the Negro, fed by the spring rains in Guiana and Venezuela, presses downward till the central stream rolls back the now sluggish affluents from the south.

  38. The Indians on the Purus live generally on the communal principle, and are unwarlike and indolent.

  39. Soldan and Pinto claim to have ascended the Javarí, in a steamer, about one thousand miles, and it is said Chandlers went up the Purus one thousand eight hundred miles.

  40. Professor Oldenberg, whose view is accepted by Professor Macdonell, Oxford, explains that the Purus merged in the Kuru coalition.

  41. The dislike for the purus mathematicus[5] is traditional.


  42. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "purus" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.