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1. "It's of no use, your trying to accomplish anything in this way," said he; "you'd better parley
2. One time, a French officer insulted the powerful Seneca chief Half King during a parley for alliance
3. After a humiliating parley at Rock Landing, Georgia, at which McGillivray toyed with less crafty representatives from the U
4. They wished to parley, but were given the usual ultimatum
5. He was not eager for this parley yet the protocol of war demanded that he ride forwards
6. Neither must get within the walls! Then we will parley with Conan
7. 'In effect, yes!' Seeing Jehungir's look of amazement, Ghaznavi continued: 'We will ask for a parley with the kozaks in regard to prisoners, at the edge of the steppes by Fort Ghori
8. They will come, with an equal force, and the parley will go forward with the usual distrust and suspicion
9. 'Then, shortly after the parley, before he has time to forget all about her, we will send a messenger to him, under a flag of truce, accusing him of stealing the girl, and demanding her return
10. know that someone - I think it was Mary Parley, a white-haired widow with a
11. “This place is Sacred to the Light, the Dark could not enter here unless they either came to parley on Sacred ground, or-” Herne paused, the thought was unthinkable, “ or someone of the Light gave them entry
12. “In five days - yes - there was to be a parley here at Budec’s castle
13. He advanced towards the Frenchman and they began to parley
14. Assaults proving fruitless, Don Juansummoned Guzmán to a parley on the walls of the city, where he told himthat if Tarifa were not immediately surrendered, the son of the gallantdefender would be put to death before his eyes
15. The two women, rooted to the ground, watched her as if fascinated, saw her speak to Robin on his ladder, saw how he started and dropped his nails, saw how nimbly he clambered down, and how after the shortest parley the infatuated youth rushed away at once in the direction of the Cock and Hens
16. The king does not parley with traitors
17. Than a command to parley
18. He rode upon a grey ass, as Sancho said, and this was what made it seem to Don Quixote to be a dapple-grey steed and a knight and a golden helmet; for everything he saw he made to fall in with his crazy chivalry and ill-errant notions; and when he saw the poor knight draw near, without entering into any parley with him, at
19. cruellest of her profession, began to incline to a parley on those
20. It was in the afternoon of the fifth day of the siege, and the fourth of his own service in it, that Major Heyward profited by a parley that had just been beaten, by repairing to the ramparts of one of the water bastions, to breathe the cool air from the lake, and to take a survey of the progress of the siege
21. Through the crevices in the granite he had seen the two young peasants talking with the carbineers, and guessed the subject of their parley
22. That's wot's wrong! You've not done enough, that's all!' And without further parley he turned and went out
23. The domino, after a little discourse, in which Emily doubtless distinguished her good nature and easiness more than her wit, began to make violent love to her, and drawing her insensibly to some benches at the lower end of the masquerade room, got her to sit by him, where he squeezed her hands, pinched her cheeks, praised and played with her fine hair, admired her complexion, and all in a style of courtship dashed with a certain oddity, that not comprehending the mystery of, poor Emily attributed to his falling in with the humour of her disguise; and being naturally not the cruellest of her profession, began to incline to a parley on those essentials
24. Will you be wise? will you be guided? will you suffer me to take this glass in my hand and to go forth from your house without further parley? or has the greed of curiosity too much command of you? Think before you answer, for it shall be done as you decide
25. public affairs, detachments of Montero's cavalry camped on the Alameda charged them without parley, at speed, with long lances levelled at their flying backs as far as the ends of the streets
26. He didn’t like the reason he’d had no choice but to leave the cleric safely in Fairkyn, but there was no use pretending, just as there was no use pretending he had any choice about accepting the parley summons in the first place
27. “I need to send the parley request to Eastshare as soon as I can,” Kaitswyrth replied unflinchingly
28. The idea that Erik was probably in the room beside us, working his trick, made me suddenly resolve to enter into a parley with him, for we must obviously give up all thought of taking him by surprise
29. Goby, who died apparently of a heart-disease not very clearly expressed in the symptoms, too daringly asked leave of her relatives to open the body, and thus gave an offence quickly spreading beyond Parley Street, where that lady had long resided on an income such as made this association of her body with the victims of Burke and Hare a flagrant insult to her memory
30. “I came to parley,” he reminded her, “and I have drunk your wine
31. "Who are you, and of what would you parley?"
32. With my friends behind them and winter upon them, they will perhaps be in softer mood to parley with
33. Then he raised his empty hand, palm outward in token of parley
34. We had an escort of five or six soldiers of fortune, you might call them, not members of the Talamasca you understand, but quite loyal in their work for us, so there was a parley of sorts
35. Yates did not chuse would perfectly satisfy him, and a short parley of compliment ensued
36. They tried to parley with the driver
37. But as the workmen really were in a difficult plight and the police to whom they appealed would not enter into their grievances, what could be more natural than their idea of going in a body to "the general himself" if possible, with the petition at their head, forming up in an orderly way before his door, and as soon as he showed himself, all falling on their knees and crying out to him as to providence itself? To my mind there is no need to see in this a mutiny or even a deputation, for it's a traditional, historical mode of action; the Russian people have always loved to parley with "the general himself" for the mere satisfaction of doing so, regardless of how the conversation may end
38. I had told six landladies that the hall bedroom I sought was for myself alone, and I had been banished at once, without further parley, from their presences
39. And Huldah went, glancing back to see that the man had seated himself once more in front of the huddled figure, looming above her, bending toward her; and that urgent whispered parley had begun again
40. Could he but have foreseen the future, what a different ending that engagement should have had! But again it was too late, and the author sprang behind the big easy chair with astonishing agility, and from that vantage ground endeavored to bring on a parley