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.

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

Parry right and parry HIGH.

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

" 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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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 she was shrewd enough to parry all his ingenious cross-questioning.

Number two, at chest, lunge; 2. Number one, parry right and at stomach (chest, head, etc.), thrust; 3. ASSAULT.

The Mongols parried the risings by raising loans from the rich and using the money to recruit volunteers to fight the rebels.

But if as soon as the Enemy has parryed he Risposts, you must only redouble with the Hand, the Body low without stirring the Feet, and join.

To this Manner of parrying Seconde, there is but one Opposite, which is done by feinting below, and as the Adversary is going to cross your Sword, in order to parry, you must disengage by a little Circle, with the Hand in Seconde, which preventing the Enemy's Sword, gives an Opportunity of hitting him above, if the Wrist is lower than I have observed, or in Flanconnade, if the Wrist is high.

But the mighty Pradyumna parried off that arrowy shower.

On clear days it threw off light like parrying steel in sunshine.

Ken's blade clashed against the other's as he parried, then side-stepping like a flash, he drove his bayonet into the man's ribs, and with a choking sob he fell dead.