Narcissi carpeted the sloping banks above a pool like a crystal mirror, into which the tiny rivulet Purled through forest ways sacred to the wild things and rarely profaned by foot of man.
"The Orchard of Tears"
Sax Rohmer
And the stream hesitated: it twirled and Purled, and went this way and went that.
"Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland"
Olive Schreiner
She sighed sometimes in her sleep, now and again lifting her head upon an elbow, as though to look out on the expanse of water that Purled almost silently to its inevitable future.
"Love's Usuries"
Louis Creswicke