Fencing exercises in two lines consist of combinations of thrusts, parries, and foot movements executed at command or at will, the opponent replying with suitable parries and returns.
When the instructor is demonstrating the combinations, feints, returns, and parries the rapidity of his attack should be regulated by the skill of the pupil and no more force than is necessary should be used.
In fighting a mounted man armed with a saber every effort must be made to get on his near or left side, because here his reach is much shorter and his parries much weaker.
These parries and rarely used, as an attack below the waist leaves the head and body exposed.
Parries must not be too wide or sweeping, but sharp, short motions, finished with a jerk or quick catch.
Faster and faster fell the blows, swifter and keener leaped the thrusts, quicker and surer the parries were interposed.
This is a poser; Lord Rossmoyne parries the thrust.
How gossip grows rife at Aghyohillbeg--How Hermia parries the question, and how Olga proves unkind.
These parries are rarely used, as an attack below the waist leaves the head and body exposed.
Parries against =butt strike= are made by quickly moving the guard so as to cover the point attacked.
All these parriesare made of sensations which may have nothing in common and yet we regard them as defining the same point of space, since they may respond to the same danger and are all associated with the notion of this danger.
We have done it in two ways: it is on the one hand the aggregate of announcers A in connection with the same parry B; it is on the other hand the aggregate of parries B in connection with the same announcer A.
With each of the blows we can be hit, nature has associated one or more parries which permit of our guarding ourselves.
All theseparries have nothing in common except warding off the same blow, and this it is, and nothing else, which is meant when we say they are movements terminating at the same point of space.
It is not one, it is a thousandparries I can oppose to the same danger.
Vice parries wide The undreaded volley with a sword of straw.
Fencing) Defn: The parry which is connected with a riposte; also, a series of quick attacks and parriesin which neither fencer gains a point.
Without going into technical details it may be pointed out that the long Elizabethan rapier, however admirably balanced it might otherwise be, was still too heavy to admit of quick parries with the blade itself.
As he comes up, the Turk makes a swift cut at him with his scimitar; but Trippe parries the blow skilfully with his sword, receiving only a slight wound.
Decatur parries with his cutlass, but the blade breaks at the hilt.
After not many more thrusts and parries he called out: "Be on your guard!
I presented Murmex and the Emperor questioned him, as to his age, his upbringing, his father's years in retirement at Nersae, as to Pacideianus and put questions about thrusts and parries designed to test his knowledge of fence.
Instead of passes ingeniously complicated, and foiled byparries as scientifically elaborate, steel clashes with steel, intent on forcing somewhere a passage for the point.
Attacks, parries and ripostes were restricted by convention to a very narrow circle.
Fencing in those days was nothing but a formal series of attacks, feints, parries and ripostes, well understood and defined by the code; every movement led up to some other movement, which was rigidly prescribed.
These covering parries though they are technically composite, in practice are fairly simple, and rapidly pass through all the lines that are open to attack.
The attacks will exercise him in the lunge, the parries will improve the flexibility of his wrist.
But the only parries that would be of any use to him are the comprehensive and rather complicated parries, which sweep through all the lines.
Next I should go on to composite parries and composite attacks.
Above all, the master's lesson must not lose itself in a maze of attacks and parries and ripostes, which in some treatises are as numerous and interminable as the stars of heaven.
You will have to make frequent use of parries of contraction, which are indispensable to Italian play, though they are little valued, not to say altogether ignored by the French school.
I have already spoken of parries and ripostes, and you have seen that the lesson teaches how these should be employed.
Parries against butt strike are made by quickly moving the guard so as to cover the point attacked.
These parries are rarely used, as an attack below the waist, leaves the head and body exposed.
Complex or Combined Parries are such as are composed of two or more parries executed in immediate succession, and are made in answer to feint attacks by the adversary (see below); e.
The origin of the numerical nomenclature of the parries is a matter of dispute, but it is generally believed that they received their names from the positions assumed in the process of drawing the sword and falling on guard.
It is evident that the above attacks are useless if the adversary parries by a counter (circular parry), which must be met by a "Double.
Contraction, Parries of," those which do not parry in the simplest manner, but drag the adverse blade into another line, e.
The foil is kept pointed as directly as possible towards the adversary, and the parries are made rather with the corners than the sides of the blade.
Phrase of arms," a series of attacks and parries ending in a hit or invalidation.
There are four traditional parries executed with the hand in supination, and four others, practically identical in execution, made with the hand held in pronation.
In like manner the parries are named from the different quarters they are designed to protect.
The complex parries are numerous and depend upon the attack to be met.
Parries against butt strike are made by quickly moving the guard so as to cover the point attacked.
In fighting a mounted man armed with a saber every effort must be made to get on his near, or left, side, because here his reach is much shorter and his parries much weaker.
When the instructor is demonstrating the combinations, feints returns, and parries the rapidity of his attack should be regulated by the skill of the pupil, and no more force than is necessary should be used.
Then the run was short and mad, despite warnings of friends, threats of relatives, and the baronet's own numerous clever checks and parries to avoid disaster.
After a night of play or drink, Camillo Agrippa himself could not thrust straight, and his parries were neither sure nor rapid.
He parries every stroke, or breaks their force upon his shield.
In the same way make the points in the lunge, in position three, and the corresponding parries in the second position.
It will also be observed that the parries for the points are also very different.
My hands taught Mahomet his first parries and thrusts; and he would sit by our fire to listen to the stories of the valor of our corps, and clap his hands, and cry 'good Selim, I would rather be a Janizary than be a prince.
The pause continued a few moments, as if each were striving to measure the hatred of the other; a few rapid and skilful thrusts and parries were exchanged, and then another interval of suspense and inactivity ensued.
Bacon certainly began to breathe more freely towards the conclusion, as having edged in with the crowd, he heard O'Reily's ingenious parries of the official's thrusts.
Beats and binds of the blade, with retreats of the body, or counter attacks with opposition, replace the old foil-parries in most instances, except at close quarters.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "parries" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
