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Definition of Parleyed
1. parley [v] - See also: parley
Lexicographical Neighbors of Parleyed
Literary usage of Parleyed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"But neither pleading, learning, nor conciliatory words availed to secure the
desired submission. Luther parleyed and temporized as he had done with the Holy ..."
2. An Historical Account of the Plantation in Ulster at the Commencement of the by George Hill (1877)
"The government, through Chichester, parleyed with him, pretending to accede to
his demands from a fear that he might join O'Dogherty ..."
3. Short comments on every chapter of the holy Bible (1838)
"Whatever appears to be a temptation to sin, must be resisted with abhorrence,
and not be parleyed with. Those that decline suffering for Christ, ..."
4. Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe (1895)
"... of that town denied' to admit them, as was the case everywhere; the constables
and their watchmen kept them off at a distance, and parleyed with them. ..."
5. Harper's New Monthly Magazine by Henry Mills Alden (1900)
"It was the padrone or tenant of the Giardino, who came up and parleyed with them.
Yes, the signoria might put down their baskets and make their tea. ..."
6. International Law Applied to the Russo-Japanese War: With the Decisions of by Sakuyé Takahashi (1908)
"Instead they parleyed. Japan, on the other hand, might have given notice to China
that ... So she, too, parleyed; and as the result of a sort of three-sided ..."
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