| 1. | A bit of purgatory 'twas for this time, merely. - from Faust by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe |
| 2. | His reference to the great games of which I had heard so much while among the Tharks convinced me that I had but jumped from purgatory into gehenna. - from A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs |
| 3. | I hope he's in purgatory now because he went to confession to Father Conroy on Saturday night. - from Ulysses by James Joyce |
| 4. | 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. - from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer |