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Definition of Parleys
1. parley [v] - See also: parley
Lexicographical Neighbors of Parleys
Literary usage of Parleys
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. International Cases: Arbitrations and Incidents Illustrative of by Ellery Cory Stowell, Henry Fraser Munro (1916)
""AUSTRIA TRICKED BY MONTENEGRO IN PEACE parleys" (1916) [THE following account
is taken from a dispatch of Mr. Lincoln Eyre, staff correspondent of the New ..."
2. The Evidence in the Case: A Discussion of the Moral Responsibility for the by James Montgomery Beck (1915)
"... CHAPTER VI THE PEACE parleys THE issuance of the Austrian ultimatum precipitated
a grave crisis. It did not, however, present any insoluble problem. ..."
3. The Evidence in the Case: An Analysis of the Diplomatic Records Submitted by by James Montgomery Beck (1914)
"... CHAPTER VI THE PEACE parleys THE issuance of the Austrian ultimatum precipitated
a grave crisis. It did not, however, present any insoluble problem. ..."
4. The Story of the Great War by Francis Joseph Reynolds, Allen Leon Churchill, Leonard Wood, Francis Trevelyan Miller, Austin Melvin Knight, Frederick Palmer, Frank Herbert Simonds, Arthur Brown Ruhl (1919)
"CHAPTER XXI THE PEACE parleys BEGIN AC four o'clock in the afternoon of November
28, 1917, a Russian delegation crossed over into the German lines under a ..."
5. English Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases by William Carew Hazlitt (1907)
"VAIN-Glory blossoms but never bears. Valour that parleys is near yielding. H.
Valour would fight, ..."
6. Memoirs of Dr. Thomas W. Evans: The Second French Empire by Thomas Wiltberger Evans (1905)
"... parleys with the invaders—How the palace was protected—The interior of the
Tuileries—The Empress waits in the palace to hear from the Assembly—She is ..."
7. Diary of Iohn Evelyn, Esq., F.R.S.: To which are Added a Selection from His by John Evelyn (1906)
"... attempts of raising the siege, prisoners taken, parleys, and in short all the
circumstances of a formal siege to appearance, and, what is most strange, ..."
8. The reader's handbook of allusions, references, plots and stories by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1882)
"Alicia's passions impel bcr to evil, but her judgment ac- ci'scs her and prompts
her to the right course. She halts, and parleys with sin, lih. ]'. ..."
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