Sentence example with the word 'parley'

parley

admonition, call in, confabulation, council, discuss with, flag of truce, interchange of views, outstretched hand, propitiatory gift, sit down with, thought

Definition n. a negotiation between enemies

Last update: August 30, 2016


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The king sent a messenger to the enemy camp to parley.   [verb]

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Richard then led the mob to a neighbouring meadow, where he kept them in parley till Walworth, who had returned within the city to summon the loyal citizens to the king's aid, returned with a sufficient following to overawe and disperse the rebels.   [noun]

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Their leader, Juan Diaz de Solis, landing incautiously in 1516 on the north coast with a few attendants to parley with a body of Charrua Indians, was suddenly attacked by them and was killed, together with a number of his followers.   [noun]

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"Halt a bit, halt a bit," said the trooper; "rein up and parley, Jenny."   [noun]

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--Stay--he coughs and hems; he is about to summon the Castle with the but-end of a sermon, instead of a parley on the trumpet.   [noun]

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'T has been my custom ever To parley with mine host.'   [noun]

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It was decided after a brief parley that the principals only should fight.   [noun]

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BARLEY, a parley, a truce.   [noun]

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I demanded a parley: and having assured him of my pacific disposition, Gawky exclaimed, "Ah, villain."   [noun]

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