Composer of Dido and Aeneas, d. 1695

Usage examples of purcell.

At a guess, she thought, Purcell had approached Zane as soon as the band had split, before Zane could carry out the suicide of an attack on the Gore Thane's Fort—as soon, in fact, as it had become clear—to Purcell that he'd need military assistance to get rid of the band that currently controlled the immediate vicinity of the alumstone diggings, instead of simply waiting for the curse to do its work.

Of the witnesses he called, Fryer, Cole, Purcell, and Peckover bore out all that he said, with the exception of his reason for not being on deck in time to go with the launch.

Purcell had been gone since Friday, September 12, and the lengthy column inches initially devoted to his disappearance were now reduced to an occasional mention nearly ritual in its tone.

He would not look away, and neither did she, until at last Purcell came over and addressed the prince.

I had helped her in my first term, and she repaid the debt in full: I won Mitchellville 196–8 in the primary runoff with Purcell.

I understand that your mother's brother, Ralph Purcell, lives in that house.

Pike Purcell had a one-track mind and that one track was busy with surmises over the story told him by Dud.

But the murderer bled Purcell out pretty well before he cut his throat, so the place wasn't wallpapered with blood and neither was the perp.

It was Purcell, as usual, who was the last to weigh in with his point of view.