The shady bank, the purling stream, The woody wild his heart possessed, The dewy lawn, his morning dream In fancy's gayest colours dressed.
Fine tales, indeed, they tell Of shades and purling rills, Where our dead fathers dwell Beyond the western hills, But when did ghost return his state to shew; Or who can promise half the tale is true?
He gazed into its glowing embers, or sometimes glanced beyond it towards an open space where a tiny rivulet glittered in the moonlight, and a little cascade sent its purling music into the still air.
Ramparts of rock protected them from the nor'-west gales, andpurling rivulets hummed their lullaby.
Melancholy smooth Maeander, Swiftly purling in a round, On thy margin lovers wander, With thy flowery chaplets crown'd.
Then in low voice Dolly said-- "I met Mr. Purling at Purlington.
But the most potent reason was that it fooled Mrs. Purling to the top of her bent.
And Harold passed on to the little morning-room which Mrs. Purling called her own.
With much reluctance Mrs. Purling eschewed triumphal arches and a brass band, but she redecorated the best bedroom, and sent two carriages to the station, although her guest could hardly be expected to travel in both.
Harold Purling had come up post-haste from Harbridge; and when the mother opened her eyes they rested upon her son.
It was not until he had been absent more than a year that Mrs. Purling appeared to relent.
Although with right royal generosity Mrs. Purling gave her favourites a liberal allowance, and promised them everything when she was gone, yet was she like a crustacean in the tenacity of her grip upon her own.
She might want one fan, but hardly two; and had Phillipa been less flurried she might have noticed that Mrs. Purling had one already in her hand.
Mrs. Purling had all along been chafed with the notion that she did not enjoy that social distinction to which as a wealthy woman she considered herself entitled.
Mrs. Purling was a little afraid of her servants, albeit strong-minded in other respects; but it was natural she should submit to a coachman who had once worn the royal livery, or quail before a butler who had lived with a duke.
Miss Purling was like a pigeon that escapes from the inclosure at a match--an aim for every gun around.
Harold Purling at a glance could read between the lines; he could trace effect to cause, and readily understood why his mother was so anxious for his return.
And as these woods, valleys, and purling streams were like Paradise, so was I like a blessed soul therein; and I doubt if many men in all their lives sum up so much pure joy as every minute yielded to me.
The twentieth century is far from the time when romance dwelt in purling brooks or stalked through marble halls.
Like gentle Fanny's was my flow'ry theme, A painted mistress, or a purling stream.
They rode in silence for a little while, the light from Rowena's torch dancing acappella rigadoons on bare walls and dripping ceilings, Easy Money's hoofbeats hardly audible above the purling of the stream.
The sound he had heard had brought to mind the dull clang that metal makes when it collides with stone, and it had been so faint as to have been barely audible above the purling of the stream.
The woman's voice was loud and clear now, and Mallory made out her words above the purling of the underground stream: ".
One may wend his way almost a mile up the sylvan slope along a stream purling in its rocky channel.
Rugged rocks lie along the purling stream, as if cast there by giant hands to impede the pathway.
Far as the ocean in its ample bed Exceeds the purling stream that warbles through the mead, Such charms are hers--as never were reveal'd On earth, since Phoebus first the world beheld!
How upwards oft I traced the purling rills To their pure fountains in the misty hills!
A wide landscape stretches away with mighty oaks slanting down, and a purling spring from which a young girl is drawing water, whilst a high-road, enlivened by travellers young and old, runs over hill and dale into the sunny distance.
She dwelt in a cottage whose trim grass-plat sloped down to the waters of the lake of Ulswater; a beech wood stretched up the hill behind, and a purling brook gently falling from the acclivity ran through poplar-shaded banks into the lake.
These precious, pearly, purling tears But spring from ceremonious fears.
As its gardens overlook the purling brook and the Wigwam, it was, thought she, well suited to the purpose she intended--and it is in fact deserving of far more attention that this passing word can say for it.
Like gentle Fanny's was my flowery theme, A painted mistress, or a purling stream.
If nature thundered in his opening ears, And stunned him with the music of the spheres, How would he wish that Heaven had left him still The whispering zephyr, and the purling rill?
Bustards we saw, and wild ducks; for the country seemed full of tiny purling streams, which should make agriculture easy and profitable, though these natural advantages are not utilised here.
The girl's song was a very simple and a very sweet one; but far more sweet to me was the sound of the purling milk as it fell in rich streams into the pail.
Spring, with the balmy wind that whispers softly through the woods and groves, mingling its voice with the purling song of the brooklet and rill, sighing over fields of waving corn, and wooing the odours from a thousand wild flowers.
I found plenty of food in the forest, and my drink was the pure soft water from the purling brooklets.
The country was like a series of English woodland glades--watered by many purling streams, and bright with masses of apple blossom; the turf around the trees all white and pink with petals torn from the branches by the recent storms.
Red-brown and sepia is the colouring against the sky, with whiffs of chill air from the mountains and the scent of fields and flowers, the shelter of green thickets and verdant banks, sown with tall poplars, beside purling streams.
It pained his gentle heart, for its many beauties, especially the palm-planted gardens of the Alcazar, vocal with purling streams and bubbling fountains, so dear to the Arab fancy.
In the narrow forest that ran between the mountains and the sea the air was rich that the scent of the honey-creeper that hung from dark green bushes, and through the velvety grass little streams ran purling down into the sea.
He slipped down from his rock, and went to look for her, but he found only her little footmarks; he found them on the bright green grass, and in the moist sand, and there where the little streams ran purling down into the sea.
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