Meanings of soft purring in English

The soft purring of the car seemed to increase our drowsiness.

A soft purring sound floated in the open window and half-roused the aged manufacturer.

Just a soft purring at the back of his throat.

He stood quite still, making a soft purring noise, and waving his tail to and fro.

A soft purring sound reached his ears.

As darkness fell, he heard Lyra come to lie down close by, and presently he heard a soft purring.

I could keep silent no longer, I didn't care how beguiling his eloquence, his soft purring words, his charmed face.

Now that the uproar occasioned by the accident had died away, she could hear the soft purring of an engine forward.

From somewhere in the woods below, the soft purring of a turtle dove is carried up the valley on the warm breeze.

Be that as it may, he witnessed the spectacle but allowed nothing to escape his lips safe a succession of soft purring sound resembling:

And then, slowly uncoiling their tentacles, they all began moving towards him-creepingat first deliberately, and making a soft purring sound to each other.

His patron's doubts were a wanton denying of what was self-evident; but Ricardo's voice remained as before, a soft purring with a snarling undertone.

The cat had remained on the foot of the bed, and its soft purring disturbed her a little, because she was accustomed to absolute silence.