purlings

For any one, with a five-shilling pair of boots to terminate in, might skip dry-footed across the sandy purlings of the rivulet.

Springhaven Richard Doddridge 2004

Its undertones, its purlings of satisfaction, confidences to its mate, harsh protests against the presence of an enemy, sneers at those of whom it has no fear, joyful performance of its scales in unison with a lighter-voiced companion, defiant hoots, each and all explicit and characteristic, provide never-ceasing entertainment.

Last Leaves from Dunk Island 2003

Utterly impossible to recall the air, with its fantastic intervals and fractional tones -- as well attempt to fix in memory the purlings of a bird; but the indefinable charm of it lingers with me still.

Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan First Series Lafcadio Hearn 1877

For any one, with a five-shilling pair of boots to terminate in, might skip dry-footed across the sandy purlings of the rivulet.

Springhaven : a Tale of the Great War 1862

The sprigs, when made, are sewn upon a piece of blue paper and united on the pillow with "cutworks" or "purlings," or else joined with the needle by various stitches -- lacet, point, réseau, cutwork, button-hole, and purling.

Beeton's Book of Needlework 1850

Motion_, such as is _Gravity_, or a _violent_, such as is any _accidental motion_ of the fluids, as we see in the _wind_ ruffling up the water, and the _purlings_ of _Streams_, and _foaming_ of _Catarracts_, and the like.

Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon Robert Hooke 1669

To purchase zinc, purlings and other construction materials to finish the roof

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With this loan, she will be able to finish the work, purchasing construction materials such as zinc, purlings and other materials to begin the work, and she will be able to relax.

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It stood on a vast rock of white marble, at the foot of which the river ran a vast depth down, and not to be descended on that side; the little waves, still dashing and washing the foot of this rock, made the softest murmurs and purlings in the world; and the opposite bank was adorned with such vast quantities of different flowers eternally blowing, and every day and hour new, fenced behind 'em with lofty trees of a thousand rare forms and colors, that the prospect was the most ravishing that sands can create.

Oroonoko 1688