"Purl" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... brooks that purl across The gleaming pebbles and the moss, We love no less than classic streams— The Rhines and Arnos ...
— Riley Love-Lyrics • James Whitcomb Riley
... as the sun forsook the eastern main The pealing thunder shook the heav'nly plain; Majestic grandeur! From the zephyr's wing, Exhales the incense of the blooming spring. Soft purl the streams, the birds renew their notes, And through the air their mingled music floats, Through all the heav'ns what beauteous dyes are spread! But the west glories in the deepest red; So may our breasts with every virtue glow The living ...
— The Upward Path - A Reader For Colored Children • Various
... used in making an ornamental edge, something like purl edging, thus:—Slip the ring on the left-hand thumb, that the pin attached may be ready for use. After making the required number of double stitches, twist the pin in the circle of cotton, and hold it between the forefinger and ...
— Enquire Within Upon Everything - The Great Victorian Domestic Standby • Anonymous
... choked turnpikes, and a whirl Of wheels, and roar of voices, and confusion; Here taverns wooing to a pint of 'purl,' There mails fast flying off like a delusion; There barbers' blocks with periwigs in curl In windows; here the lamplighter's infusion Slowly distill'd into the glimmering glass (For in those days we had not got ...
— Don Juan • Lord Byron
... And feed with pregnant streams the plants and flowers: Soon as he clears whate'er their passage stay'd, And marks the future current with his spade, Swift o'er the rolling pebbles, down the hills, Louder and louder purl the falling rills; Before him scattering, they prevent his pains, And shine in ...
— The Iliad of Homer • Homer
... Obermais! Charming bit of Paradise, Where the palm and snow are blended, Where life's joys seem never ended, Where the purl of limpid streams Haunts the traveller's deepest dreams; Girt by miles of terraced vines, Birthplace of the purest wines, Sheltered by imposing mountains, Musical from countless fountains, Bathed in sunshine, bright with flowers, Studded with old Roman ...
— Poems • John L. Stoddard
... prompted that statement, but it had the effect of making Lady Allie go off into one of her purl-two knit-two trances. ...
— The Prairie Mother • Arthur Stringer |
