Crossword-Solution: PUROS 5 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 7

NOTES PHAETHON _The Galliambic Measure_ Hermann (_Elementa Doctrinae Metricae_), after citing lines from the Tragic poet Phrynichus and from the Comic, observes: Dixi supra, Phrynichorum versus videri puros Ionicos esse.

Now, this here elixir, sold for no more than sixpence a phial, contains the essence of the alkahest, the archaeus, the catholicon, the menstruum, the sun, the moon, and, to sum up all in one word, is the true, genuine, unadulterated, unchangeable, immaculate, and specific chruseon pepuromenon ek puros.” The audience were variously affected by this learned oration.

The supper was soon despatched, but our host had some _puros_ in the house--a luxury we had not enjoyed lately; and, hating to hurry away from such comfortable quarters, we determined to stay and take a smoke.

Stephens and other travelers seem to regard it as tobacco of excellent quality, and allude to its constant use by the ladies who smoke _puros_, a cigar made of a single leaf, or formed entirely of tobacco.

Disputador eterno, poniendo en cada disputa, por nimia que fuese, una cantidad de pasión y de violencia verdaderamente asombrosas; ganoso siempre de llevar la contraria a cuanto se decía aunque fuese más claro que la luz del mediodía; de un pesimismo feroz y antipático para juzgar a los hombres, a tal punto que no se dió el caso jamás de que creyese puros los móviles de una acción humana, por noble y honrada que apareciese; rencoroso y vengativo hasta la locura.