he called, "Black Roger!" "Aye, lord, 'tis I," cried Roger, parrying a pike-thrust, "make sure of thy work, master, I can hold these in check yet a while.

Hugh stood warily upon the defensive, and parried Mark's blows with admirable skill; he had not the muscle nor the endurance of the young blacksmith, but he had considerable skill in boxing, and was perfectly cool; and though Mark finally succeeded in grappling and hurling to the ground his lithe and resolute foe, it was not until he had been pretty severely pommelled himself, especially in his face.

" As Joseph was mumbling indistinctly in the depths of the cellar, and gave no sign of ascending, his master dived down to him, leaving me vis-à-vis with the ruffianly bitch and half a dozen four-footed fiends that suddenly broke into a fury, while I parried off the attack with a poker and called aloud for assistance.

While I was muttering out something about the Panorama of those strange regions (which I had actually seen), by way of parrying the question, the coach stopping relieved me from any further apprehensions.

But the able Carthaginian commander Himilco parried this assault by giving orders for the erection of a second wall behind the breach.

" Sterry was clever enough to parry this compliment with considerable skill.

" The Khakán, filled with indignation at these haughty words, cautioned Rustem to parry off his own danger, and then commanded his troops to assail the enemy with a shower of arrows.

"Steady, sir!" said Wynd, springing back, and parrying his outstretched hand.

Parry right and parry HIGH.

If the Enemy parrys the Pass with his Fort, you must only join, commanding his Sword with your Fort, 'till you have seized his Guard with the left Hand, which must be done at the Time that you advance the right Foot, carrying your Sword from the Inside to the Out, then you must bring the left Foot to the side of the right, and bring back the right presenting the Sword to the Enemy.

"This," says he, "they call mother wit; and the most illiterate have a quickness in parrying the effect of a question by an evasive answer.

Finding this would not do, he laid his beloved burden on the ground, and then strode hither and thither, over and round about it, parrying the horsemen's endeavours to take him prisoner.

To the two ladies who felt their own hearts stirred almost to tears of gratitude, he wasas he sat before them calm, unmoved, handling keen-edged facts with the easy rapidity of one accustomed to use them, smiling courteously and collectedly, parrying their expressions of appreciationto them, we say, at least to one of them, he was "the prince of gentlemen."

He shook hands before Redwood remembered that he meant to parry that familiarity; he pitched the note of their conference from the outset, sure and clear, as a search for expedients under a common catastrophe.

If on the Engagement he thrust under, you must parry and thrust strait, or take the Time, opposing with your Hand, and if instead of going under, he only feints there in order to return above; you must either parry the Feint and risposte under, or push on the time, as I have said before.

Opening it he read, 'You took the Sword of the Spirit and stabbed me through and through one day, and every time I tried to parry the blade and get you to use your hands, and not the Heavenly steel, you simply gave me another stab.

First, that you are to parry all Thrusts with the inmost Edge, except in yeilding Parades, which are made with the Flat.

He now fights cautious, getting away from and parrying the slogger's lunging hits, instead of trying to counter, and leading his enemy a dance all round the ring after him.

But"he did not take the pains to parry her interruption with more foolery, and proceeded as if she had not spoken"it has never been out of my mind that your father gave me a glance at our first meeting which asked the question that has kept recurring to me: Where had he and I seen each other before?

I will show them that I have weapons to parry the jibes of rough soldiers, weapons I have not yet brought into play.

The unfortunate king, unable to parry the onset, fell into the hands of his enemies, together with upwards of one thousand of his famous warriors.

When they had approached sufficiently near to each other, one threw his spear with great force and dexterity, still keeping time to the music, and the other parried the weapon with his bamboo shield.

It could be easy to fence with you for ever and parry every point you attempt to make, until English people began to think there was nothing wrong with England at all.

The United States was often sharply attacked and I was put to all my resources to parry the prods that were directed at our weak places.

But Heywood, by some desperate sleight, had parried the certainty, and even tried a riposte.