pur-r

Updated: July 21, 2026

But down at the farm all was strangely quiet, in spite of the children's voices; and at night the quietness positively kept him awake, listening to the pur-r of the pigeons in their cote against the house-wall, thinking of his grandmother awake at home and harkening to the tick-tack of her tall clock.

Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - The Ship of Stars