How To Use Parley In A Sentence
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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
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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.
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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
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In most situations you will be attacked by them before there is even an opportunity to parley.
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Thus, their parleys tend to center on expressions of and responses to feelings, or what the author labels ‘rapport-talk’ (private conversation).
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These informal parleys over our communication system keep us in good humour.
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My next idea was to parley with one of our boys in blue, but damn, I hate talking to cops.
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Catholic Ireland repudiated further parleying with the British political system from within and, in effect, gave up on conciliating Irish unionist opinion.
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Fitzpatrick camped a comfortable three miles away and rode over to parley with the chief.
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Then he began to parley with me, said he would make me any reasonable satisfaction.
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Their heroes fight, after preliminary parley which would do credit to the chivalry of the Hippodrome; and their lances invariably splinter as frush as the texture of the bullrush.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847
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Telemaque, every morning, and he kept six French masters to teach him to parleyvoo.
Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 1
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This looked like a surrender: there would not be so many men, some two hundred in all, if it were a parley party.
KARA KUSH
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“You won’t blow the gab? — that’s why you couldn’t have your parleyvoo this morning.
Australia Felix
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We must send our most trusted officer to parley with their leaders for an exchange of prisoners.
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“Well, it’s been nice to stop and parleyvoo a second.
Babbit
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We must send our most trusted officer to parley with their leaders for an exchange of prisoners.
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This looked like a surrender: there would not be so many men, some two hundred in all, if it were a parley party.
KARA KUSH
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Her parley had trailed into long, idle hours, and their speech was often punctuated with the raucous clatter of several bottles of rum and stale wine rolling to and fro in the pitch and yaw of the anchored ship.
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The governor was forced to parley with the rebels.
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Badr Basim King over them after his sire; and they sware the oath gladly, for the sovran was liberal to the lieges, pleasant in parley and a very compend of goodness, saying naught but that wherein was advantage for the people.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Others were asleep during the critical moments of the parley.
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He refused to comment on rumors that the two companies are already parleying.
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People would halt the progress of whatever parley they were engaged in and turn to stop him in aisles and antechambers, demanding an instant jape or trick from him.
Knell Quarternion
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The successful parleys led to the independence of the predominantly Protestant Northern Netherlands and the foundation of the Dutch Republic.
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Two Brazilian regiments were ordered to the Campo, field guns trained on the barracks, and a deputation of senators sent to parley with the rebels.
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It was rather amusing for me, watching these two gentlemen parley.
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Among our people one of the twelve essential conditions for a parley is the presence of a bard.
A TIME OF WAR
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Well, it's been nice to stop and parleyvoo a second.
Babbitt
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Prabowo parleyed with the leaders of the demonstrations and received their log of claims (for jobs, education for their children and the like).
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Obviously, the Viceroy was under instructions not to parley with the half-naked rebel.
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Among our people one of the twelve essential conditions for a parley is the presence of a bard.
A TIME OF WAR
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Several parleys were held and whenever any reasonable solution to the problem was in sight, the government backed out of it on one pretext or another.
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The troops halted as Macdonald, Younghusband and Captain O'Connor, political assistant and interpreter, went forward to parley with the Tibetans.
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Badr Basim King over them after his sire; and they sware the oath gladly, for the sovran was liberal to the lieges, pleasant in parley and a very compend of goodness, saying naught but that wherein was advantage for the people.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Oh, they parley endlessly… then hope to achieve whatever objective they set out for themselves, to put it simply.
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The big man parleyed the advent of a new hyphenated Tory into a week off.
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The past is another country, and as foreigners who visit it, the quality we novelists and historians most need is tact when we parley and fossick.
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Their heroes fight, after preliminary parley which would do credit to the chivalry of the Hippodrome; and their lances invariably splinter as frush as the texture of the bullrush.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847
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For two and a half months, the military command had parleyed and negotiated with the racialist thug and his group, which included both active and retired senior military and intelligence officers.
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She kem at once," said Tagg, "an 'they began to parleyvoo as quick as you like --
The Wheel O' Fortune
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A parley with a grumpy gateman, the presentation of his letter and he was admitted to the presence of the manager, a man exhausted with the strenuosity of night and day work.
The Voice on the Wire
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A slant-eyed Japanese parleyed with her for a fruitless space, then led her inside and disappeared.
THE STORY OF JEES UCK
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Lord Dondo and I were sent as the envoys, under the flag of parley, to deliver an ultimatum to Olus and arrange the terms and ransoms.
THE CURSE OF CHALION
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In the halls of NBA front offices, in the power lunches, agent meetings and cell-phone parleys, it was a summer of impressive work by the league's best teams.
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We will never parley; we will never negotiate with Hitler or any of his gang.
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Without further parley I left him, and set off along the byroad, scarce giving a glance to the poor dog limping painfully towards the inn.
Humphrey Bold A Story of the Times of Benbow
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They must have put in some wonderful work, ecad, on the quiet like, during this arms’ parley, meatierities forces vegateareans.
Finnegans Wake
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I can't parleyvoo with him, but he's an honest rogue for a Frenchman, and 'twas he brought off my young
The Chaplet of Pearls
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The team would hold parleys with higher authorities of the state government.
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` ` Well, it's been nice to stop and parleyvoo a second.
Babbitt
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Imagine him rushing to Berlin after the downturn in Axis fortunes to parley with the man in charge because he was the democratically elected leader and symbol of the renascent German nation.
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Rather, two weeks before Amherst suggested the idea, infected blankets were given to two visiting Indian chiefs during a parley at Fort Pitt.
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On the next morning, which was cold and drizzly, a "pragmatical" drummer went out from the nearer trench, beating his drum for a parley, lest his person should be dismissed without ceremony to the hungry kites.
Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 (of 2)
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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
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Lord Dondo and I were sent as the envoys, under the flag of parley, to deliver an ultimatum to Olus and arrange the terms and ransoms.
THE CURSE OF CHALION
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The parley, so far as Raoul was concerned, proved fruitless, and he went back into his own lines convinced that the men on the Big Rock could hold out for years, though he would have been swiftly unconvinced could he have observed Tehaa and the Raiateans, the moment his back was turned and he was out of sight, crawling over the rocks and sucking and crunching the scraps his dog had left uneaten.
THE DEVILS OF FUATINO
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Well, its been nice to stop and parleyvoo a second.
Chapter 3
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In addition to the postponement of the family reunions, North Korea also said it wants Mt. Kumgang to serve as the venue for a series of scheduled inter-Korean talks, including the ministerial parley.
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Discussions, secret parleys and meetings, at various places, marked the last few days.
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For example, the Saturday assistant in a local electrical outlet isn't a good person to parley with.
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If one side tried to parley with the other, it would surely be crushed.
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And without further parley, followed by his soldiers, he retired into the casemate, leaving Captain Servadac gnawing his mustache with mingled rage and mortification.
Off on a Comet
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The order of gentlemanly parleying and brokery has, therefore, with many apprehensions of calamity, been reluctantly and tardily giving ground before something that is of a visibly underbred order.
An Inquiry Into The Nature Of Peace And The Terms Of Its Perpetuation
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Most of the foreign soldiers followed their order to charge if the parley was attacked.
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When Abraham won the war, there ensued a brief parley between himself and the king of Sodom.
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And if any offer of alliance or parley of individual elders comes from home, the false spirits shut the gates of the castle and permit no one to enter, — there is a battle, and they gain the victory; and straightway making alliance with the desires, they banish modesty, which they call folly, and send temperance over the border.
The Republic by Plato ; translated by Benjamin Jowett
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When parley failed, he met aggression with his own fury.
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And Parleyvoo Pickens, the wrong reverend, writes out a marriage certificate, and farmer and farmeress sign it as witnesses.
The Gentle Grafter
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His method was what he called informally ‘jaw-jaw’ or, more formally, ‘a parley at the summit’.
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Mr. Pinchin could understand French, though he spoke it but indifferently; but he, being fairly Primed, and in one of his Obstinate Moods, musters up his best parleyvoo, and tells the Ancient with the Golden Key (and I saw that he had another one hung round his neck by a parcel chain, and conjectured him to be a High Chamberlain at least) to go to the Devil.
The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 2 of 3 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors...
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Both sides are secretive about their positions and details of the parleys so far but, at least, the joint statement issued by the two sides after their two-day meeting last December is most welcome.
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It continues a tradition of apt venues for the awards which for years were held in the Merchant Adventurers Hall in York - that wondrous 14th century Foss-side building where business people have gathered and parleyed for centuries.
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According to one story, they took unfair advantage by attacking when a parley was in progress.
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Too much need not be said about the two-day parleys of the Foreign Secretaries but, even at the risk of stressing the obvious, it must be said that these have been more relaxed and constructive talks of their kind in recent years.
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Raven had little desire to parley with their enemies, but she had been given an order.
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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
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They parleyed and left us with an imperfect independence.
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This was well, for the enemy was drawing near again, though it appeared they meant to parley.
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The report indicated that the matter has seen hectic parleys between the various industry chambers and the government.
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Imagine him rushing to Berlin after the downturn in Axis fortunes to parley with the man in charge because he was the democratically elected leader and symbol of the renascent German nation.
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We must send our most trusted officer to parley with their leaders for an exchange of prisoners.
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It had actually been a very difficult job to identify to hotel, where the duo had been presumably in deep sleep, readying themselves for the next day's parleys.
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We must send our most trusted officer to parley with their leaders for an exchange of prisoners.
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My dear lords and ladies, disperse, and a week hence we'll parley anew.
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Saladin and Richard certainly knew about truce and parley in one era of technological equivalence between their two civilisations.
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And he wastes no time signaling that the parley is over.
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History is replete with instances of misguided leaders believing they were statesmen and entering into parleys and talks with intractable and cunning enemies.