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"Purl" in a Sentence (18 examples)
The voice spoke to him, and its softness was the purl of a wave lapping at the shore.
A triumphant chariot made of carnation velvet, enriched with purl and pearl.
Needlework purled with gold.
Knit one, purl two.
Stockinette fabric is created by knitting the right-side rows and purling the wrong-side rows.
The huntsman was purled from his horse.
Swift o'er the rolling pebbles, down the hills, / Louder and louder purl the falling rills.
There is a water-break formed by a small terrace of rock in mid-stream, and purling with a hollow, delicious monotone—an island of pebbles is above, with here and there smaller ones near the "forks."
At seven minutes past four, while a Bach sonata was purling under the din of the crowd, the President's reaching hand was struck aside, and a man lurched forward. Two shots cracked sharply. There was a moment of dead silence.
A little creek purled down from the mountain over stones[.]
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[T]he road purled out ahead of us for miles, all prospect and promise, like the beginning of a long, good friendship.
thin winding breath which purled up to the sky
Caiſters ſiluer Lake, / […] / VVhoſe ſtreame an eaſie breath doth ſeeme to blovve; / VVhich on the ſparkling grauell runns in purles, / As though the vvaues had been of ſiluer curles.
Whatsoever had a beginning, can also have an ending; and it shall die, unless it be daily watered with the purls flowing from the fountain of life, and refreshed with the dew of heaven, and the wells of God: […]
the purl of a brook
A double mug of purle.
Drank a glass of purl to recover appetite.
Drinking hot purl, and smoking pipes.
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