Gravity carried the car round the curve, slowly, smoothly, silently; under constraint of its brakes it slid to a pause on a steep though brief descent, and hung there like an animal poised to spring, purring softly.

The engine purred contentedly.

At last the tiger, wearied of the game and purring loudly, walked away.

It licks your feet,its huge flanks purr very pleasantly for you; but it will crack your bones and eat you, for all that, and wipe the crimsoned foam from its jaws as if nothing had happened.

Outside three luxurious automobiles were purring them selves out of sight in the darkness.

The valley purred louder with the music of the swollen streamlets.

If you stroke a cat, it will purr; and, as inevitably, if you praise a man, a sweet expression of delight will appear on his face; and even though the praise is a palpable lie, it will be welcome, if the matter is one on which he prides himself.

(As his leg is being stroked he begins to purr involuntarily.) SHOEMAK.

As we gained the street a pea-green Mammoth purred past, the passengers putting out their heads to look at us.

" "Would you really?" he purred, penitently, as she turned away to the window.

"Me fri'nd," purred Murphy, persuasively, "is th' Frinch thrappers balin' August peltry f'r to sell in Canady?"

He never fails to purr politely when he comes in.

There was time to buy California jewels in the bazaarstourmalines and pearl-blistersbefore the car came up, purring sweetly, and looking innocent as a cat gorged with canary birds.

" "Oh, Peck, dear fellow," Mr. Skinner purred sympathetically.

"Skinner, dear boy," Cappy purred amiably, "I've been thinking over the proposition to send Andrews out to the Shanghai office, and I've come to this conclusion.

Only Anne presently came up to Mrs. Poynsett and tenderly purred with her over some little preparation for Miles.

It could not have been the cat this time, for Puss was comfortably purring before the fire down stairs.

And really the topaz-eyed creature, in its becoming jade collara gift from Nick Hilliardwas often a comfort to Angela, curled up in her lap and purring cosily under her book as she read.

TOBY-DOG Are you asleep? KIKI-THE-DEMURE, (purrs feebly) TOBY-DOG Are you even alive?

An old mosque is appropriated to the purpose, under the charge of several directors; and here sick cats are nursed, homeless cats find shelter, and decrepit cats gratefully purr away their declining years.

Arriving in front of the Hôtel de l'Univers it executed a full stop and stood curbed yet palpitant, purring heavily: an impressive brute of a car, all shining silver plate and lustrous green paint and gold, the newest model of the costliest and best automobile manufactured in France.