Let us therefore parley with him from the battlement above the gate.

So, ugly fiend, farewell, till time shall serve, That we may meet to parley for the best. ENVY.

After our fierce assaults and their resist, Our siege, their sallying out to stop our trench, Labour and hunger reigning in the town, The younger Marius on the city's wall Vouchsaf'd an inter-parley at the last; Wherein with constancy and courage too He boldly arm'd his friends, himself, to death; And, spreading of his colours on the wall, For answer said he could not brook to yield, Or trust a tyrant such as Sylla was.

Vanbraam's services as interpreter were called for a second time, and there was a longer parley between him and the messenger.

Heaven grant her life hath borrowed so much impudence of her sex but to speak to me first: for, by this hand, I have not so much steel of immodesty in my face to parley to a wench without blushing.

The third section of Robert Browning's Parleyings with certain People of Importance in their Day drew attention to a Cambridge poet of whom little had hitherto been known, Christopher Smart, once fellow of Pembroke College.

And light words and gay Parley of women never passed my door.

295 Francis de Lorraine, Duke of Aumale and of Guise 302 Massacre of Protestants 305 The Duke of Guise waylaid 315 Conde at the Ford 328 Parley before the Battle of Moncontour 337 Admiral Gaspard de Coligny 346 Charles IX.

Society, we may be sure, began to whisper of these snug parleys in the arbor after dinner, these shadowed mumblings on the balcony when the moon was upand Lady Digby stiffened into watchfulness.

The bell was answered by the same woman who had admitted him before, and who made no parley about letting him in this time.

On the 27th (there having been a parley on the 26th), the populace attempted to seize the arsenal.

But though they "covered the sea with their canoes," they parleyed after landing when they should have fought.

But Mr. Thomasson, who had only parleyed out of compliance, took fright at that, and rose from the table, shaking his head.

We cannot parley through a hole.

This caused a parley as to the best mode of proceeding, which resulted in the simultaneous appearance of three of the rioters at the opening.

It was ten o’clock and the besiegers suddenly withdrew a short distance for parley among themselves.

The month of September passed thus in parleys without result.

There was some parleying between the two nations, and the information arrived in Tahiti that England was going to make war on France.

and, "a parley from the brigantine!" were the only words that were distinctly audible.

Meantime there was some parleying in low tones among the crowd outside.

But after many conflicting stories as to what would be done and much parleying on the part of the recommending power, who said that there was none in the regiment qualified for the promotion.