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Gordon, after a deep draught at the purl, thus began: "You observe yon thin, meagre, cadaverous animal, with rather an intelligent and melancholy expression of countenance his name is Chitterling Crabtree: his father was an eminent coal-merchant, and left him L10,000. Crabtree turned politician. When fate wishes to ruin a man of moderate abilities and moderate fortune, she makes him an orator. Mr.
Guinness always goes with my father on his summer journey for books, and this year she has well, things to buy for me." It was the wedding-dress she meant, he knew. He leaned eagerly in at the window, where he stood hoping for a blush. But none came. "Purl two and knit one," said Kitty to her crochet.
Here a fresh-looking barmaid serves them each with a glass of early purl as they stand before the fire, coachman and guard exchanging business remarks. The purl warms the cockles of Tom's heart, and makes him cough. "Rare tackle that, sir, of a cold morning," says the coachman, smiling. "Time's up."
"Next," said Dick, handing the purl, "take a pull at that, but moderate your transports, for you're not used to it. Well, is it good?" "Oh, isn't it!" said the small servant. Mr. Swiveller appeared immensely gratified over her enjoyment, and when she had satisfied her hunger, applied himself to teaching her the game, which she soon learned tolerably well, being both sharp-witted and cunning.
He was not more than five hundred yards from her now, and gained a new pleasure in feeling that all sounds which greeted his ears, in the day or in the night, also fell upon hers the caw of a particular rook, the voice of a neighbouring nightingale, the whistle of a local breeze, or the purl of the fall in the meadows, whose rush was a material rendering of Time's ceaseless scour over themselves, wearing them away without uniting them.
The Countess was unaware of the nature of a purl, but she could have sworn it to be a piece of Providence. 'Just by old Nat Hodges' farm, on Squire Copping's ground, cried Andrew, much relieved by the particular individual's misfortune. 'Dear me, my lady! how old Tom and I used to jump the brook there, to be sure! and when you were no bigger than little Miss Loring do you remember old Tom?
Spangles are usually sewn down separately; they may be attached by stitches from the centre outwards or by the thread being passed through a piece of purl and then returning to the back through the hole in the centre of the spangle. Here again they are attached with the help of pieces of purl.
God knows what would have become of me, if I had not taken to drinking; my wife scorned to be outdone by me in any thing; she followed my example, and at the end of a year I followed her to the grave. Since then I have taken warning, and been scrupulously sober. Betty, my love, another pint of purl.
Those who travel the country in searching after and gathering plants, if they chance to meet with sour or ill-tasted ale, may amend it by putting an infusion of sea-wormwood into it, whereby it will be more agreeable to the palate, and less hurtful to the stomach. Threlkeld. Syn. Pl. Hibern. This is an ingredient in the common purl, the usual morning beverage of our hardy labouring men in London.
Bullion. This is the name given to the larger sizes of purl. Pearl Purl. This, when spun round, has the appearance of a string of tiny gold beads. It is frequently used as an outlining thread. Various gold twists and cords can be obtained; they are composed of several threads twisted up in the usual cord fashion, each ply consisting of gold spun round a silk thread.
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