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purr

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Pur \Pur\, n. The low, murmuring sound made by a cat to express contentment or pleasure. [Written also purr .]

Usage examples of purr.

The springs snapped to life and the armatures began moving, and soon the dark spider was alive, whirring and purring under its own mechanical power.

Turning, he yelled down in the direction of the mainmast, where a large black, furry mass lay half asleep, purring sonorously.

Some part of Tryl noted that Stft took over the prisoner while Mank moved forward, picking up his despondent slave, purring to him and offering comfort.

Marcy felt unable to move for more reasons than her precarious towel, the purring cat she held, for even more than the melty feeling.

As an added precaution there were three monocycles purring next to the curb.

No one could outstare her, and when at last the opposing eyes blinked she would stretch and purr and wind herself around her victim in triumphant pleasure.

How the kitten purred when from coarse burlap, onion sacks, and other permeable material Eddi Amsel sewed shirtlike undergarments.

But Phosphor purrs like a windmill, like an electric car, like a tea-kettle, like a whole boiled dinner.

The faint hum of the insect, the intermittent murmur of the guitar, the mellow complainings of the pigeons, the prolonged purr of the white cat, the contented clucking of the hens--all these noises mingled together to form a faint, drowsy bourdon, prolonged, stupefying, suggestive of an infinite quiet, of a calm, complacent life, centuries old, lapsing gradually to its end under the gorgeous loneliness of a cloudless, pale blue sky and the steady fire of an interminable sun.

I trace the same customs in the Arab djemmaa and the Afghan purra, in the villages of Persia, India, and Java, in the undivided family of the Chinese, in the encampments of the semi-nomads of Central Asia and the nomads of the far North.

I saw her breasts rise and fall in pleasure beneath the flames that gowned her, and she let out a small, purring sound of satisfaction.

Only a few minutes of stroking and purring and his eyes stopped leaking the water, though they seemed puffy.

Tryl held him against his warmth and rubbed his back, purring and making comforting sounds.

Tryl closed his eyes, purring softly, letting Yai be the aggressor for now.

Tryl slowed his purring, gathering furs and pressing them in around Yai as he backed away from his sleeping slave.