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The headstock and purling are cocobolo, while the bindings are maple.— Mandolin Cafe News
Let me tell you; purling is not as fun as knitting.— Grace Like rain
The Lakewood Knitwits have exchanged batting and tying for skipping and purling, but the theory is the same: conversation and busy fingers.— Dallas Observer | Complete Issue
In the remarkable autobiographic poem called the Epistle to Arbuthnot_, Pope speaks of his early patrons and friends, and adds Soft were my numbers; who could take offence When pure description held the place of sense Like gentle Fanny's was my flow'ry theme A painted mistress or a purling stream Yet then did Gildon draw his venal quill I wish'd the man a dinner, and sat still Yet then did Dennis rave in furious fret I never answer'd,--I was not in debt Pope's view of his own career suggests the curious problem: how it came to pass that so harmless a man should be the butt of so many hostilities?— Alexander Pope English Men of Letters Series

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