Something shining and dark, brave with brass and flashing lamps, stood on the rocky way beneath, and purred like a great cat in the broad sunlight of noonGray Stoddard's motor car!

I would take them to the cage, and tell them to just talk soothing to the hyenas through the bars, and when the hyenas began to get tame and act as though it would give them pleasure to be curried off, and laid down and rolled over, and purred like a cat that wanted to be scratched, and acted as though they would eat out of one's hand, the boys might call me, and I would have the cage opened and they could go in and curry them off.

She purred with delight, and licked Miss Laura's gloves over and over again.

The engine purred contentedly.

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

You know what I'm going to get ... some day," he purred in his slow, feline way.

"Friend of his?" purred Racey.

And Harriet fairly purred with hospitality.

He rubbed his hands softly and turned his eyes with a glance meant to be tender towards the place where her chair stood; if he had been a cat, he would have purred the while.

"If Nicky purred round your legs, you'd love him, too," said Anne. iv Uncle Robert was not well.

"What's wrong, Bucky?" purred Thirkle, moistening a cigar between his lips and giving Buckrow a searching glance.

"Steady as she goes, mates; steady as she goes," purred Thirkle.

They strolled on, Nick holding Timmy, who purred loudly, as if glad to welcome the giver of his jade collar.

" She scratched its head gently, and it purred more loudly under her hand.

On the rail before the door sits the puss of the household, of the fiftieth generation, perhaps, from that "harmless, necessary cat" which purred round the poet's legs as he sat talking love with Ann Hathaway.

The kitten purred about my feet, and as I smiled assent to him, I said inwardly to myself, "Really, she is a true woman!" ABOUT WARWICK.

The women fairly purred.

" "Of course not, of course not," purred the magistrate.

"I'm glad, darling," Olga purred.

" The sorceress purred at this sort of talk, and she rested her head where there seemed a place especially made for it.

" "Oh, come on now, that's a good fellow," purred Mitchell, picking up the two bills and the coins.

After five o'clock this hyena purred at his wife and licked his cubs; the rest of the time he knew no mercy.

A windmill purred in the light breeze, its lean, flickering shadow aslant the corrals.

Andreas knew that MacGahan was quizzing him, but it was exceedingly droll how he purred and bridled under the light touch of that genial humourist, whose merits his own countrymen, to my thinking, have never adequately recognised.

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