purrings

Loyalty is directed by Edward Hall in a tumultuous cacophony of bleeps and special ringtones and ordinary telephone purrings and burglar-alarm yowls and sirens and doorbells which, unusually, catches the aural confusion of personal and public demands.

A Woman Killed with Kindness; Loyalty; Ghost – review 2011

Okay, KCT, here iz a comfy chair, a cup ov chamomile tee, n eyeshade, nd a “Do Not Disturb” sine… soft mewsik gently playing, and floofy kittehs to lul yu to sleep wif thair purrings… everyfing yu need fur happy nappins…

Napattack - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009

Above all, they want them to ensure that their people's voices are heard, as Kaletsky puts it, "above the complacent purrings of Brussels bureaucrats."

Season Of Shock 2007

He saw himself already in ‘the box,’ retailing the spiteful purrings of that cat, casting forth to the public and the papers the word

The Silver Spoon 2004

The animal slightly moved her tail voluptuously, and her eyes grew soft and gentle; and when for the third time the Frenchman had accomplished this interested flattery, she gave vent to those purrings like as cats express their pleasure; but it issued from a throat so deep, so powerful, that it resounded through the cave like the last chords of an organ rolling along the vaulted roof of a church.

Short Stories and Selections for Use in the Secondary Schools Emilie Kip Baker

And often, between her purrings, she murmured love-words in some strange fierce language of her own, brushing his ears and his eyes with her lips the while.

Three Weeks Elinor Glyn 1903

More: He has taught me many things, he talks without making too much noise; in fact, I have read whole sermons in his soft purrings.

American Cookery November, 1921 Various 1892

For Leah was a cat; and amidst her soft purrings, she would occasionally put out her velvety paw, and give a wicked little scratch that made the blood come, and so softly and innocently too, that the sufferer could hardly take offence at it.

Dulcibel A Tale of Old Salem Henry Peterson 1882

Mac laid the bundle in her arms, and Rose began to cuddle it in the fond, foolish way women have – a most comfortable and effective way, nevertheless – and baby evidently felt that things were changing for the better when warm lips touched her cheeks, a soft hand smoothed her tumbled hair, and a womanly face bent over her with the inarticulate cooings and purrings mothers make.

Rose in Bloom 1876

Mentor of Young Democracy has abandoned philosophy, and stuffs the ears of his TELEMACHUS with the skirts of CALYPSO'S petticoats, the latest scandals of the Court, and the prurient purrings of abandoned womankind in places where you accept the unaccustomed cigar, and drink the unfamiliar champagne.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 98, January 18, 1890 Various 1876