None knoweth that truth better than the brotherhood, indeed; for it is of record that aforetime it was parlous difficult and took a year.
Sir, it is parlous news I bring, and--be these pilgrims?
Despite the parlous condition whereunto the fear of the morrow had reduced him, this new tone of Galliard's so wrought upon him then that he was almost eager in his request that Sir Crispin should unfold his story.
And what he said to them touching themselves, their country, and the Kirk Committee that had made sheep of them, was so bitter and contemptuous that none but men in the most parlous and pitiable of conditions could have suffered it.
He was at a loss how to open theparlous subject, how to communicate to Crispin the amazing news upon which he had stumbled.
Black Prince came down to Cornwall in 1353 to make acquaintance with his duchy, for he took that as seriously and conscientiously as everything else, the stronghold was in a parlous condition.
When Mr. Augustus Smith leased the islands from the Duke of Leeds, the present representative of the Godolphins (Dolphin Town is named after them), the people were in a parlous condition.
As for the four beached cruisers, they were in a parlous condition, and it would take weeks to effect repairs.
She was clearly in a parlous condition, and only her after-turret still fired.
Saint-Huberty had taken most of its available cash with him, found itself in a parlous condition.
There's nothing in it, your Excellency, except that remark about 'parlous times.
In the phraseology of logic, Winter applied the deductive method and Furneaux the inductive; when both fastened on to the same "suspect" the unlucky wight was in parlous state.
She was in a parlous state, and ripe for any extreme impulse.
Rejoined his friend, "Thou hast acquainted me with a parlous affair, from the like of which the wise and understanding will shrink with fear.
About the middle of June John suffered a parlous blow.
Grace shield his simple soul from harm Who enters yon flirtation niche, Or trusts in whispered counter-charm, Alone with such a parlous witch!
The World and the Flesh grew pale—as well They might do, with propriety— For they’d be in a parlous state, without The countenance of Society.
Answer as I ask,--under thy breath; those drawers are parlous spies!
Would thou hadst a less wise father; and so may the saints (Saint Anthony especially, whom the Evil One was parlous afraid of) guard and keep thee!
Thou wouldst not think, Lord Hastings, that Katherine had a white skin,--a parlous white skin.
Lord Scales, in a somewhat affected intonation of voice, "the conjunction of the bear and the young lion is a parlous omen, for the which I could much desire we had a wise astrologer's reading.
But our civil wars make men hold human life very cheap, and there's parlous little care from the great of the blood and limbs of the wayfarers.
She, too, was evidently in a parlous state, so much so, indeed, that we scarcely had time to identify her as the Alexander Third when she capsized and sank!
Yes, indeed, Master Dick, everything is fast for we’re abiding in parloustimes and never know who’s about.
And now, all at once, the position of the unfortunate batsman was found to be a very parlousone indeed.
The message was dated at Wi-ju, and these were the words of it: Foregone preconcerted rash witching goes muffled rumour mine dark silent unfortunate richmond existing great hotly brute select mooted parlous beggars ye angel incontrovertible.
It was a dangerous pond behind Old Street, long known as 'The Parlous or Perilous Pond' 'because divers youth by swimming therein have been drowned.
If he be not very good he was not parlous dear; he paid for him but an old song.
A parlous coward he is, else might he now be fighting the Amalekites with the sword of the Lord and of Gideon.
Search her well, mistress Upstill, but show her no rudeness, for she hath the power to avenge it in a parlous manner, having gone to school to my lord Herbert of Raglan.
The Present Parlous State of Systematic Zoology (for "Science Progress").
My Aunt, aged 75, who has apparently concluded from my constant absences from Church that my spiritual life is in a parlous way, to-day read me her portion from a large book with a broad purple-tasseled bookmark.
To console her when I myself was in a parlous plight was just as though one drowning man should hold out his hand to another.
I began to realize what a parlous plight we were in and what a roundabout road we must tread to get out of it.
Parlous as our plight was, we had food and drink and tobacco for our pipes afterwards; and a seaman needs little more than that to make him happy.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "parlous" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
