Let us talk no more of this now," said Raven, gently parrying her question.
That something had gone wrong, he freely acknowledged; and as he spoke of it always in connection with political topics, he succeeded in parrying their questions, and checking suspicion.
He gave back, parryingthe lunge, tempted to use his pistol upon his adversary.
Parrying the thrust with his hook, he shortened his stump and lunged at Diggle below the belt.
She played the game gallantly, fencing and parrying with admirable tact, and with a coolness wonderful for a woman in such peril.
Parrying his fierce thrust--he was very active for so stout a man--I called out to our people to fall back as quickly as they could, for I was afraid that we might be taken in the rear also.
Harry stood it all as long as he could; at last, parrying another kiss, he sprang up and declared it was time he set off with his prisoners and the convoy.
Almost before he had realized it he had passed over the dragoon and his horse, and, parrying a swinging cut from the man behind, had shortened his arm and thrust him through the shoulder.
Parrying the swashing blow with ease, he replied with a thrust that tumbled the captain groaning from his saddle.
Harry was sufficiently occupied in parrying the captain's vengeful attack without the necessity of guarding against the pike that threatened every moment to impale him.
A dimachaerus has to depend on parryingand his antagonist knows what to expect.
And she gave a scornful laugh, loftily parrying Mrs. van der Staal's arguments.
I cried, parrying a fierce thrust from an Austrian officer.
There was no time for parrying of blows; we had to take our chance, and, cutting and thrusting, try to force a passage.
Parrying a thrust from the duke, Paul took a swift backward step, and while maintaining his defensive attitude, contrived to glance sideways.
In Paul's eyes the sight of the gray-headed premier of seventy parrying and lunging with all the ardor of a boy of seventeen was significant of much.
Thus comes the common use of the word, in a figurative sense, with reference to both these meanings, of baffling or defeating an adversary, or of parrying an attack.
Some made way for him apparently paralysed by fear or surprise, some doubtless from secret friendship, so that, here and there parrying a random cut or thrust, he succeeded in gaining the palm-grove.
Parrying their ill-directed thrusts, he struck first one and then the other over the head with the full weight of his club, and the contest was over; they both lay helpless on the ground.
This parrying buckler does not appear in Homer: efforts made to discover it are unsuccessful.
All are hung from the shoulder by baldrics, not held in the hand, like the parrying bucklers of the eighth century and later.
When these had been accepted, the huge early shield, slung by a baldric, was discarded for the round or oval parrying buckler, blazoned with a device, and carried on the left arm.
Nor did any one, at any time, foist in the round Ionian parrying shield on the left arm: the Homeric body-covering shield hung by a baldric retained its place.
Joyeuse, parrying the blow, "I said you were a traitor, and as a traitor you shall die.
He did," answered Erskine, parryingeasily and with an answering thrust that turned Grey suddenly anxious.
Parrying a blow he was making at my neck, just above the gorget, I returned it with the full sweep of my long heavy sword.
Whereupon I dragged him down as promptly as he had just now dragged me up, telling him his broadsword would make but a poor shift parrying musket-balls.
Yet he had no choice, and presently I had him among the empty wine-butts, foining and parrying for his life and pouring out such blasphemies as would make your blood run cold.
We have the signal for a squadron breaking the enemy's line, but only in order to rejoin the main body, and we have the simple method of parrying the move by tacking with an equal number of ships.
And she gave a scornful laugh, loftilyparrying Mrs. Van der Staal's arguments.
Agricola, with a rapid movement, parrying the stone sledge with his own hammer.
In parrying off the brute with the fork, its prongs stuck into the brute and killed him.
But, surmounting growing difficulties and parrying the vicissitudes which are inevitable in war, let us strengthen in our hearts the resolution to carry on the struggle, with the help of God, to the complete triumph of the Russian arms.
Along the frontiers the army is parrying blows of the enemy and wearing him down, avoiding big battles, losing territory indeed, little by little, but gaining time and husbanding resources.
In a later age the bow was more and more neglected in Greek warfare, and consequently large shields went out, after the close of the Mycenaean age, and round parrying bucklers came into use.
