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  • Their phones rested screens-down between them, like the weapons of desperadoes at a parley.  (source)
    parley = negotiation or discussion
  • Now, Percy Jackson, let us parley?  (source)
    parley = negotiate or discuss -- especially between enemies
  • She argued a little with Sebastian Gomez to save face, but she almost immediately accepted the proposal that Miguel should go out with a white flag to parley with the police.  (source)
    parley = negotiate
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  • "I come in peace and wish to parley," he said to the men on the shore.  (source)
    parley = negotiate or talk
  • A sort of transaction went on between them, in which she was on one side, and life was on another, and she was always trying to get the better of it, as it was of her; and sometimes they parleyed (when she sat alone); there were, she remembered, great reconciliation scenes; but for the most part, oddly enough, she must admit that she felt this thing that she called life terrible, hostile, and quick to pounce on you if you gave it a chance.†  (source)
  • Kemp had hurried upstairs after letting Adye out, and now crouching among the broken glass and peering cautiously over the edge of the study window sill, he saw Adye stand parleying with the Unseen.†  (source)
  • All the dark pageantry of war in Gaul, the thrust of the Roman spear through the shield of hide, the barbaric parleys in the forests, and the proud clangor of triumph—all that might have been supplied in the story of the great realist, by one touch of the transforming passion with which a great teacher projects his work, was lacking.†  (source)
  • There was no earthquake, and the whole of the following day was spent, so far as Rieux was concerned, in long drives to every corner of the town, in parleyings with the families of the sick and arguments with the invalids themselves.†  (source)
  • I do degenerate, and abuse my nation, To play with opportunity thus long; I should have done the act, and then have parley'd.†  (source)
  • Badenhorst agreed to meet us, and at our parley we threatened work stoppages, go-slows, hunger strikes—every weapon at our disposal—unless he reformed his ways and restored many of the privileges that he had rescinded.  (source)
    parley = negotiation
  • They parleyed briskly for a moment—then Barban nodded and bowed coldly to his late antagonist.†  (source)
  • Some parleying was audible in the hall, and soon the new-comer entered.†  (source)
  • From the bottom of the slope, where the parleys had taken place, came the report of musketry.†  (source)
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