Lexicographical Neighbors of Parleyers
Literary usage of Parleyers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Plays of Emile Verhaeren: The Dawn: The Cloister: Philip II: Helen of Sparta by Emile Verhaeren (1916)
"It was not parleyers: there were too many. When the troops were a hundred yards
away, some threw away their arms, others raised the butt ends of their ..."
2. Romance of Imperial Rome by Elizabeth Williams Champney (1910)
"... nor had you known of the refusal of the Senate to Alaric's demand for your
presence in our camp until the return of the parleyers, when, ..."
3. French Revolution in 1848: The Three Days of February, 1848; with Sketches by Percy Bolingbroke St. John (1848)
"Still the parleyers tried to make the fighting cease :— all in vain ! In vain M.
de Girardin came down with the proclamation of the King's Abdication ..."
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