As we left the ring together, my childhood hero spoke softly, gently, almost purring.
They were going to his mansion, partying on, the Rolls purring at the curb.
Smiling broadly after a cocktail-hour chat, they made purring noises about getting together more often.
Walking around the grounds now, Mrs Mansfield is greeted by calling monkeys, purring lynxes and even a rattling porcupine.
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For now, though, the Franco-German motor is purring away like a BMW engine.
But get Jim Rome talking about his race horses, and the King of the Jungle stops roaring and starts purring.
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But two purring phone calls between her and Clinton are some of the play's highlights, perhaps proving that only Clinton can outshine Ann Richards.
And the sizable costs of keeping the big box concept purring.
The government ran big budget deficits (7.3% in 2009 and 7.9% last year), a hefty fiscal stimulus that kept domestic consumption purring along while it collapsed elsewhere.
Second, the announcement this week of a massive fiscal-stimulus package suggests the government does intend to do what it can to keep its own economic engine purring.
It was only a few months ago that David Cameron, the Conservative leader, averred that since the economy was purring so happily his historic mission was to mend British society.
The Lib Dem superlawyer was all but purring as he read the government's response to the work of a joint parliamentary committee, which has been scrutinising a draft bill on the issue.
By using an electric drive of the sort that is purring away in Leicestershire, ships can fire up their engines one at a time and run each at its most economical throttle setting.
So when you hear the House majority leader fairly purring about one of them--particularly one who happens to be the new White House budget chief--it's time to wonder: Has the thawing of partisan hatred begun?
Deft and purring, she seems to pounce in from another land entirely, a Hitchcockian pleasure ground of light fingers and matching repartee, and her expression is that of a grown woman who surveys all these sombre boys, plus their whizzing toys, and sees only Bat-crap.
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