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"Purl" Quotes from Famous Books

... unconscious of the indignant pity for his wretched abilities in the gaze of the Countess; and he must have been exposed—there was a fear that the ghost of Sir Abraham would have darkened this day, for Miss Carrington was about to speak, when Lady Jocelyn cried: 'There's a purl! Somebody's down.' ...

— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith

... confluent rivers, were unkindly torn apart; One to slide through fruited gardens, longing vainly for the sea, One to purl 'neath ample bridges, bearing cargoes to the mart, But ever dreaming fondly of a ...

— Stories in Verse • Henry Abbey

... day arrived with all the promptness that might have been expected of it in this land of rains and mists. The alder bushes behind the gymnasium dripped monotonously leaf upon leaf, added to this being the purl of the shallow stream a little way off, producing a sense of satiety in watery sounds. Though there was drizzle in the open meads, the rain here in the thicket was comparatively slight, and two men with fishing tackle who stood beneath one of the larger ...

— A Laodicean • Thomas Hardy

Words linked to "Purl" : course, handicraft, flow, make noise, run, knit, resound, broider, embroider, yarn, knitting stitch, feed, noise, thread