However, using a strict definition of purring that continuous sound production must alternate between pulmonic egressive and ingressive airstream ( and usually go on for minutes ), Peters ( 2002 ), in an exhaustive review of the scientific literature, reached the conclusion that until then only ‘ purring cats ’ ( Felidae ) and two species of genets, Genetta tigrina, and most likely also Genetta genetta, had been documented to purr.

:* The music of this first part of the composition concentrates on the so-called " purring " of the holothurian, besides making fun of Loïsa Puget's song Mon rocher de Saint-Malo (" My rock of Saint-Malo "-a then popular salon composition, which Satie had probably played numerous times in his cabaret pianist career ).

Barton's voice was rougher than Dill had ever heard it.

Once again, he shook his head, kept his face expressionless and his voice very calm, and had a strongly supported alibi ready.

His advice, his voice saying his poems, the fact that he had not so much as touched her -- on the contrary, he had put his head back and she had stroked his hair -- this was all new.

He had his voice under control again: no one became aware that he was terrified by what had just happened to him.

The marine shouted for it until it seemed that his voice had to crack.

A lone pro-Hearst voice from New York City was that of William Devery, who had been expelled as a Tammany leader but still claimed strong influence in his own district.

A voice drifted in to me above the patter of the rain shortly after I had fallen into a fitful sleep.

He composed songs and set them to music and sang them in a soft, melodious voice, and when his audience had had enough of music he would discourse on politics or tell stories of his western adventures guaranteed to excite the emotions of men and women alike.

But one day came the voice of a man I had known when he was a boy, and I later remembered that this boy, thirty years before, had struck me as coming to no good.

at will, the voice of the auctioneer, the voices of the bidders, and finally the small boy who had been so interested in Mr. Podger's hammock purchase.

and then I was adding my own voice to the crescendo of sound, hurling more vile language than I ever thought I knew, sobbing and shouting, and aware that if I had passed water before, it was not enough, for my pants were soaking wet.

Eileen got to dancing, just a little tiny dancing step to a hummed tune that you could hardly notice, and trying to pick up strange men, but each time I was ready to say to hell with it and walk out she'd pull herself together and talk so understandingly in that sweet husky voice about the good times and the happiness we'd had together and there I was back on the hook.

He had a deep voice which was full of good food she had cooked, and good humor ; ;

Arlene had a hard voice, too, this time.

Earlier, this woman had been so filled with a chaotic variety of introjects that at times, when she was in her room alone, it would sound to a passerby as though there were several different persons in the room, as she would vocalize in various kinds of voice.

Chandler had expected a tough old trooper with a gravel voice.

The voice had music in it.

In a low voice, almost whispering, the man had asked Phil if he was happy with the way the landlord had been taken off his back.

It was the night Clayton had tricked them in the poker game.

In online poker games special tracking software can be used to determine the exact percentage of times a player check-raised when he had the opportunity.

In the original Omaha poker game, players were only dealt two hole cards and had to use both to make a hand combined with community cards .< ref name =" Super System "> Doyle Brunson, < cite > Super System: A course in Power Poker </ cite >, Cardoza Publishing ( 1978 ), ISBN 1-58042-081-8 This version of Omaha is defined in the glossary of Super / System ( under Omaha ) as being interchangeable with " Tight Holdem ".

Originally, the deck had to be composed by combining two poker, piquet or euchre decks and removing unneeded cards ( a piquet deck does not have the 2-6, making it easier to modify, and a euchre deck is exactly half a pinochle deck ), but with the game's popularity in the United States in the early 1900s, a single boxed deck with the necessary cards was marketed, and these specialized pinochle decks are now widely available in similar styles to common 52-card counterparts.

In 1963, Bally developed the first fully electromechanical slot machine called Money Honey, although earlier machines such as the High Hand draw poker machine by Bally had exhibited the basics of electromechanical construction as early as 1940.

In 1999 the Australian Productivity Commission reported that Australia had nearly 180, 000 poker machines, more than half of which were in New South Wales.

By the mid-1930s his father's increasing alcoholism and abusive temper ( he had part of his ear bitten off in a poker game fight ) finally led Edwina to separate from him although they never divorced.

He berates the gang for thinking that they could force him to tell something he does not want to tell and burns his own left forearm with the poker Thénardier had used to threaten him before surrendering to the gang.

Although California had legal card rooms offering draw poker, Texas hold ' em was deemed to be prohibited under a statute that made illegal the ( now unheard of ) game " stud-horse ".

He had been visiting family friends – all long-time Republicans and fellow poker players – who had a winter home in town.

During the 21 years that South Carolina had legalized video poker, Little River's location near the North Carolina state line made the community a major center for the activity.

He had a poker mind as well as a poker face.

Brunson had begun playing poker before his injury, playing five-card draw and finding it " easy.

Later, seeing Carl with another girl ( Traci Lords ) at a local indoor swap meet, Beverly impales him in a men's restroom with a fireplace poker that Rosemary, who came along, had purchased.

During the testimony of Marvin Pickles ( Tim Caggiano ), who had seen her through a peephole in the restroom stall with the poker just before Carl's murder, Beverly fans her legs, sexually arousing the man and confusing him into to saying he had lied and never saw Beverly in the stall.

The gunfight happened in front of, and next to, Fly's boarding house and picture studio, where Holliday had a room, the day after a late night of hard drinking and poker by Ike Clanton.

A few years afterwards he was approached by a poker player who brought the game to Aruba and had it patented.

The World Series of Poker at one time actually used its casino tokens for the poker tournaments, but in more recent years has had special Paulson WSOP clay sets made for the tournaments.

The shooting was allegedly linked to debts owed from a 3-day, high stakes poker game which he had participated in the previous month with several associates and acquaintances.

Hershiser stunned the poker world by making the quarterfinals, defeating 2006 event champion Ted Forrest, Allen Cunningham, and Freddy Deeb — players who had won a total of 12 World Series of Poker bracelets heading into the event.

Andie goes on to get Ben knocked out at a chick flick film, rapidly moves her stuff into his apartment, acts overly possessive and sensitive at all times, ruins boys poker night for him and his friends and takes him to a Celine Dion concert when he was under the assumption he was going to see a New York Knicks basketball game, which Andie had wanted.