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Most of the foreign soldiers followed their order to charge if the parley was attacked.
Rather, two weeks before Amherst suggested the idea, infected blankets were given to two visiting Indian chiefs during a parley at Fort Pitt.
When Abraham won the war, there ensued a brief parley between himself and the king of Sodom.
Fitzpatrick camped a comfortable three miles away and rode over to parley with the chief.
For example, the Saturday assistant in a local electrical outlet isn't a good person to parley with.
In most situations you will be attacked by them before there is even an opportunity to parley.
This was well, for the enemy was drawing near again, though it appeared they meant to parley.
Raven had little desire to parley with their enemies, but she had been given an order.
The troops halted as Macdonald, Younghusband and Captain O'Connor, political assistant and interpreter, went forward to parley with the Tibetans.
Saladin and Richard certainly knew about truce and parley in one era of technological equivalence between their two civilisations.
According to one story, they took unfair advantage by attacking when a parley was in progress.
My dear lords and ladies, disperse, and a week hence we'll parley anew.
The past is another country, and as foreigners who visit it, the quality we novelists and historians most need is tact when we parley and fossick.
One day the prince went to the land of canals and clogs to parley with his fellow princes.
According to some witnesses, Jumonville was killed while attempting to parley, something which Washington denied.
Lea and Celeste have very different mentalities, and their parley abounds in references to the thought and life of Galileo.
Two Brazilian regiments were ordered to the Campo, field guns trained on the barracks, and a deputation of senators sent to parley with the rebels.
It was rather amusing for me, watching these two gentlemen parley.
If one side tried to parley with the other, it would surely be crushed.
It may dangle cheap oil to the Afghans as an incentive to parley.
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Examples from Classical Literature
The old General spoke Pushtu fluently, and there was a parley, begun by him, ordinarily the most silent of mankind.
The clangor distracted the attention of the assailants, and a parley ensued.
He armed himself, therefore, cap-a-pie, and undertook this dangerous parley with the alcayde.
I know exactly where180 lies Castle Yewe, and I wish to ride within its sallyport without further parley or delay.
Upon such occasions it is not amiss to know how to parley cuisine, and to be able to dissert upon the growth and flavor of wines.
Each door and barrier, too, was guarded by soldiers, with whom the brothers had to parley.
The servant, after some parley, led him through the house and out at the back door.
There can be no parley, no compromise with the evil thing for which Germany fights.
The Prince let her go and half turned to meet him, but Camille was not inclined to parley.
There was a long parley during which I could see that I was often the subject of their discourse.
Do you two get on as fast as you can and leave us to the parley.
Cambronne wished to parley with them, but they would not listen to him.
Don't you be listening to a woman's parley, for it's all nonsense.
Reed, impatient of my now frantic anguish and wild sobs, abruptly thrust me back and locked me in, without farther parley.
Immediately, Boucher, a North-West clerk, was sent forward to parley.
Here ensued a parley, which, as I do not think myself obliged to relate it, I shall omit.
Here and there they would stop to inspect a bunch of cattle, and there would be a parley, brief and businesslike.
Clarence felt the uselessness of further parley, and rode away.
The enemy is still outside the walls, so we must try to gain time by engaging them in parley.
The only parley Ill have with that pack of lousy beggars will be hot shot!
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