Purl

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[.]

[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.