parley

How To Use parley In A Sentence

• But Ms. Hustvedt rarely belabors the theme—this brisk, ebullient novel is a potpourri of poems, diary entries, emails and quicksilver self-analysis: "My own head was a storehouse of multiloquy, the flux de mots of myriad contrarians who argued and debated and skewered one another with mordant parley. What the Nanny Saw; the Trouble With Men
• But the Congress veteran, who was in the midst of hectic parleys connected with the ongoing crisis in the party, failed to make it for the function.
• After three days 'parley I had just concluded my bargain with his breechless majesty, when a "barker" greeted me with the cheerless message that the "Aguila" was surrounded by man-of-war boats! Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver
• In most situations you will be attacked by them before there is even an opportunity to parley.
• Thus, their parleys tend to center on expressions of and responses to feelings, or what the author labels ‘rapport-talk’ (private conversation).
• These informal parleys over our communication system keep us in good humour.
• My next idea was to parley with one of our boys in blue, but damn, I hate talking to cops.
• Catholic Ireland repudiated further parleying with the British political system from within and, in effect, gave up on conciliating Irish unionist opinion.
• Fitzpatrick camped a comfortable three miles away and rode over to parley with the chief.
• Then he began to parley with me, said he would make me any reasonable satisfaction.