Owing to a praiseworthy desire to avoid bloodshed, that general wasted time in parleying with the most rebellious of the "sections" of Paris.
Wordsworth, who had formerly sung the praises of the French Revolution, thus voiced the national defiance: "No parleying now!
It was useless to think of parleyingwith a prince who acted in such expeditious fashion as this.
The presence of Caesar was the occasion of parleying between the besiegers and besieged.
See, This comes of parleying with my Lord of Devon.
Still Parleying with Renard, all the day with Renard, And scarce a greeting all the day for me-- And goes to-morrow.
Upon this they began to quake, and, parleying with Saïd, begged for mercy, and said they would go immediately if the powder was not used against them.
My husband therefore began parleying about sailing-boats and had sent Ammar from Adahan, and the sultan had sent his captain up to meet us.
This shooting and parleyingwent on for half an hour.
Further parleyingmade it clear that many of them had no inclination to do any personal harm to the Jews or to their property.
Rasgadayeff had tearfully begged the rioters to desist and after some parleying it had been agreed that the Vigdoroffs and their guests should be allowed to escape to their landlord's apartments before the mob invaded their rooms.
Parleying and demurring over the terms of surrender continued until noon.
The soldier kept to himself his opinion of meddling with black gowns, and after some parleying at the door of Father Jogues' apartment, received the garment and brought it to his lady.
It was all very well to have no parleying with the enemy, but that did not mean one would be content to sit down quietly in sight of the enemy's lines, and never so much as fire a shot; certainly not for an Irish Fusilier's daughter.
It had dawned on her that she was parleying with the enemy.
There was a good deal of parleying before it was finally decided to place the body in the forge, which was a wooden lean-to, resting against the north wall of the cottage.
I rushed to General Otis's office and after some parleying had it confirmed by him.
But it was necessary to stand parleying a long time.
He watched Sir Robert Sandeman parleying with the borderers, and was introduced to them as the statesman who had sanctioned the new road.
A British Commissioner had been appointed in July, 1884, but at the end of the following November Russia was still parleyingon questions of detail.
Here Jules and his escort halted, and after a warm embrace with the merry young Frenchman, they rode forward, and, after the usual parleying with the pickets, were passed forward to the officer commanding the post.
After more parleyingthe arrangements were completed.
Soldiers: For he's a peppery kind of King, Whose indisposed for parleying To fit the wit of a bit of chit, And that's the long and the short of it!
And I'm a peppery kind of King, Whose indisposed for parleying To fit the wit of a bit of chit, And that's the long and the short of it!
His hands and forehead were bruised, and he was clinging to the door-post with all his might, parleying violently with Doctor Wilhelm.
There was much parleying in regard to Ingigerd's appearance in theatre.
Sam was out, the young servant said when we got there, and while parleying with her Mrs. Parslet opened her sitting-room door.
At the door of the Petite Maison Rouge, when she reached it, stood Flore, parleying with a slim youth, who held an open paper in his outstretched hand.
Aguinaldo finally withdrew his troops, after much useless parleying and much waste of ink.
There was some of the parleying and ink, however, that was not wholly wasted.
The Filipino newspapers called attention to the fact that large reinforcements of American troops were on the way to Manila, and very plausibly inferred that the parleying was for delay only.
Upon this the Albanian took up his parable and a long parleying ensued, for the robbers were taken aback with the good English in which I had addressed them, and stood still with open mouths to hear what it all meant.
Then with much parleying the little furs such as rabbit and muskrat were exchanged for the gewgaws.
They stopped at the wagon, and after parleying with my wife for several minutes, they turned her team around and took my family along.
Vaguely through the gloom I could see him and Lord Douglas Wychwoode parleying with those abominable Ruffians.
By parleying and other delays, Champe got an hour the start of his pursuers.
While parleying with the flag the enemy endeavored to surround the militia, which Luddington perceiving, he ordered a retreat.
But the crew had a large gun trained aft, andparleying took place.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "parleying" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
