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  • After a few more thrusts and parries, another man appeared around the corner of the pyramid and ran toward the fighters.†   (source)
  • He looked as though he could have parried a spear-thrust out of the shadows.†   (source)
  • At the last second, I managed to tilt my own blade upward to awkwardly parry the attack.†   (source)
  • She put two on, he parried, lifting a third and fourth from the serving dish.†   (source)
  • "Cruc — " But Snape parried the curse, knocking Harry backward off his feet before he could complete it; Harry rolled over and scrambled back up again as the huge Death Eater behind him yelled, "Incendio!"†   (source)
  • The noise was strange, somehow more painful than receiving the blow, but Celaena thought little of it when he charged again and she met his weapon, parrying with ease.†   (source)
  • His parry was too slow.†   (source)
  • "I like what you've done with it," she parries.†   (source)
  • The stick swords clacked as Arya parried.†   (source)
  • He struck in a humming circle behind him and Ralph only just parried the blow.†   (source)
  • Without thinking, he lunged forward, but Brom easily parried the blow.†   (source)
  • I blocked a stiff-fingered jab, parried a kick that would have done real damage, and backed away.†   (source)
  • The next time the businessman sets up his ear-splitting screech and shuffles toward Hiro, cutting and snapping his blade, Hiro parries the attack, turns around, and cuts both of his legs off just above the knees.†   (source)
  • The Congress Parry returned to power.†   (source)
  • The skeletal cavalry officer with the broken sword lashed out at her, and she parried with her own sword.†   (source)
  • I parried the blow, and we fought up and down the dais, while the battle raged around us and one by one the members of the Circle fell.†   (source)
  • Paul fell back, parrying.†   (source)
  • He had not added that it was especially unsafe for a woman to be alone, but she knew both that he thought it and that it was true, even as she parried his suggestion.†   (source)
  • A swift parry.†   (source)
  • But the man parried Dan's blow with a kick of his own.†   (source)
  • He tried to sidestep, tried to parry, tried to somehow escape the doom that was now inevitable.†   (source)
  • On those evenings when he did arrive, his arms laden with groceries, he was short and sullen, parrying my questions about Mahtob with a terse "She is all right."†   (source)
  • I parried these questions without giving him much information.†   (source)
  • Though I pivot and bring up my scim to parry, my insides are paralyzed.†   (source)
  • Luma parried the challenges and maintained a supplicant monotone that would've amused the boys on the Fugees, who knew what she sounded like when she wanted to make a point.†   (source)
  • Although he did his best to appear confident and cheerful, he could feel that they were on edge, and after parrying one or two questions about the plan, he began to wonder how he could distract their thoughts and get them to relax until they were ready to set off again.†   (source)
  • I closed my eyes, but at the last possible moment he must have shifted his weight and parried the blow aimed at his head.†   (source)
  • But Janjungpa parried every charge leveled against him by repeating the promise he claimed Mortenson had made to him.†   (source)
  • "Oh, it is, huh?" she parried, stalling.†   (source)
  • It felt like a sudden, unexpected parry in a fencing match.†   (source)
  • After nearly two hours of tense parrying back and forth, Agent Heekin's interrogation had established little more than that Sachs was a collector of erotica, and that he'd been promiscuous with consenting students and professors over the last eleven years at the university.†   (source)
  • Already on her third page of precise notes, she listens intently as a talkative student in the first row parries with James on the "evangelical fervor" question.†   (source)
  • "I always look smart," she parries.†   (source)
  • He picked up the sword and swung it through the air like a swashbuckler, thrusting and parrying into thin air filled with imaginary Shataiki.†   (source)
  • He ducked, ducked again, and backed away, feeling terrible pain each time he parried a blow with his shoulder.†   (source)
  • Swift as a serpent, Max stabbed downward and caught the blade within his parrying guard.†   (source)
  • She spun, thrust, parried, and rarely missed the mark.†   (source)
  • Montes parried the strike and slashed one of the lines holding the boat.†   (source)
  • Within the thin veil Branna conjured she sliced and parried while Meara, relentless, drove her back.†   (source)
  • When they were together they talked, at first awkwardly, the thrusts and parries of strangers thrown together and surviving the shock waves of cataclysm.†   (source)
  • He held his ground, firmly parried the blade, and drove it to his left.†   (source)
  • The Confederate army is a nimble fighting force, at its best on open ground, able to feint and parry.†   (source)
  • Generally they weren't too serious, more bluster and parrying than actual fighting, and only rarely did someone get badly wounded or killed.†   (source)
  • The parry was over.†   (source)
  • First he was the triumphant attacker; in and out the yacca-yacca darted like the jab of a fish-barbed spear; round and about the ironbark flailed, battering, parrying, crushing.†   (source)
  • I parried and cut a few times.†   (source)
  • He was not cunning enough to know viciousness when he heard it, so idiotic that he believed in full confidence that his antique saws were parries.†   (source)
  • As he walked through the workshop on his way to their apartment, startling the fashionable ladies at their fittings so that they darted behind the screens playfully parrying his ambiguous jokes, the seamstresses, disapproving, muttered sneeringly: "Here comes his lordship," "Arnalia's heartache," "old goat," "lady-killer."†   (source)
  • The question was a quick, shrewd parry.†   (source)
  • The Warrior's swords parried the bear's sweeping blow, sparks blinking in the fog.†   (source)
  • Then Royce's parry came a heat too late.†   (source)
  • Caught off-guard, he only had time to deflect, his parry lost in his size.†   (source)
  • Annabeth parried away a stinger with the flat of her blade.†   (source)
  • Around the room they fought — thrust and parry, feint and counterfeint.†   (source)
  • I parried away a spike just before it would've hit her chest.†   (source)
  • Eragon disengaged with a flourish, thrust, and then riposted as Murtagh parried, dancing away.†   (source)
  • There was a green Parry's wrapper on the counter.†   (source)
  • Paul directed a parry downward, turned, saw Halleck's rapier catch against the table's edge.†   (source)
  • Her arms ached as they were shaken from their slumber, but she continued to deflect and parry.†   (source)
  • From her back, Eragon parried a hammer blow from an Urgal chief, protecting her vulnerable wings.†   (source)
  • Every parry was a little slower and a little lower than the one before.†   (source)
  • He parried my strike and almost slammed me with his shield, but I jumped back.†   (source)
  • Eragon retreated toward Murtagh, arms trembling as he parried the Shade's blows.†   (source)
  • Dorian swung his sword, grunting as Chaol easily deflected the blow and parried.†   (source)
  • I parried his blade and backed away, letting him come after me.†   (source)
  • Paul activated his shield, parried and countered.†   (source)
  • Sparks flew off his blade, and the clash of metal filled their campsite as Brom parried.†   (source)
  • He parried Celaena's attack with a brush of his blade.†   (source)
  • Eragon reflexively parried the attack, and their swords met in a shower of sparks.†   (source)
  • Brom parried the blow with the hilt of his sword, then jumped to his feet.†   (source)
  • As he parried a blow, the Twins contacted him urgently.†   (source)
  • She parried the metal lady's spear with her huge cavalry sword, but she was about to be overpowered.†   (source)
  • Eragon easily parried a stab, and with a looping backhanded stroke, sliced off the attacker's head.†   (source)
  • She tries to switch sword arms, but I jab my scim at her wrist faster than she can parry.†   (source)
  • "Again you parry the question," Catti-brie laughed.†   (source)
  • His point scraped past her parry and bit into her upper thigh.†   (source)
  • On every side blades broad and narrow, short and long, swung, parried, blocked, swiped, sliced.†   (source)
  • How was it you were taught to block and parry?†   (source)
  • You would have said, 'Excellent parry, Inigo, now that's enough for one day; let's have supper."†   (source)
  • Their blades blurred—strike and parry—and the pavement trembled.†   (source)
  • She ran at Mimas, who barely managed to parry her dragon-blade with the handle of his hammer.†   (source)
  • Mallory was on one knee, cursing as she parried attacks from three giants at once.†   (source)
  • Only a desperate parry deflected the next, as Vyndra now took his time, aiming with deliberation.†   (source)
  • He ducked and slashed, parried, riposted, jumped to the side, and stabbed in a whirl of activity.†   (source)
  • "Fine," Cedric says, knocked backward a step and looking to parry from a new direction.†   (source)
  • T.J. sang "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" while he stabbed and parried with his bayonet.†   (source)
  • "You parry well," Heafstaag growled as he squared off just a few steps from his challenger.†   (source)
  • In the belltower courtyard, Cadets lunge and parry with staffs as a Centurion circles them.†   (source)
  • With a shout, he parried the sword of the soldier who had been pressing him.†   (source)
  • Sword in hand, Eragon parried both blows, stunned by the dwarves' speed and ferocity.†   (source)
  • The Hound parried a cut at his head, grimacing as the heat of the flames beat against his face.†   (source)
  • Prince Oberyn parried a savage cut with his spearhead.†   (source)
  • The two combatants parried and countered, with the dwarf actually gaining a bit of an advantage.†   (source)
  • Roran dispatched the man with a second blow to the head, then parried a sword from another soldier.†   (source)
  • He struck at her and she parried, their blades moving with such speed, they were nearly invisible.†   (source)
  • The soldier saw what he intended and parried the blow.†   (source)
  • Dancing to the side, Eragon parried the attack.†   (source)
  • Their blades bound and disengaged, feinted, thrust, parried, riposted.†   (source)
  • He turned to parry the stroke, succeeded.†   (source)
  • She eyed me as if ready to parry or retreat.†   (source)
  • Casting aside the cloak and raising his guard, he parried Yama's new attack.†   (source)
  • It also gave me a shoulder wound, from an attack I could only partly parry as I dropped the bar.†   (source)
  • When he struck, I parried in quarte and riposted.†   (source)
  • I tried a headcut, which he parried; and I parried his riposte to my heart and cut at his wrist.†   (source)
  • I didn't have time to see what happened next, as I parried and thrust.†   (source)
  • Then I lunged, was parried, was attacked, and parried again myself.†   (source)
  • He parried me and made me retreat before his own attacks.†   (source)
  • He parried this and kicked a small stool between us.†   (source)
  • Before any of them could parry the question with one of their own, Harry felt a terrible, scorching pain in the lightning scar.†   (source)
  • Clary pulled away from Jace and saw that Valentine had struck at Luke, who had met his blow with an ear-shattering parry.†   (source)
  • "Yes, indeed," cried Slughorn a little thickly, "Parry Otter, the Chosen Boy Who — well — something of that sort," he mumbled, and drained his mug too.†   (source)
  • I parried, returned with a thrust.†   (source)
  • Estha pressed his Parry's sweets into her hand and she felt his fever-hot fingers whose tips were as cold as death.†   (source)
  • The Other's parry was almost lazy.†   (source)
  • He merely assured Inspector Thomas Mathew that as far as he was concerned Velutha did not have the patronage or the protection of the Communist Parry.†   (source)
  • Farther on, two spearmen faced each other across a little trickle of a stream, practicing their thrust-and-parry in the fading light, their chests bare and slick with sweat.†   (source)
  • Geryon parried my first strike with a pair of red-hot tongs and lunged at my face with a barbecue fork.†   (source)
  • And there were Chani's words of instruction still in the front of his consciousness: "Jamis turns to the right with his knife after a parry.†   (source)
  • Any decent master-at-arms could give Arya the rudiments of slash-and-parry without this nonsense of blindfolds, cartwheels, and hopping about on one leg, but he knew his youngest daughter well enough to know there was no arguing with that stubborn jut of jaw.†   (source)
  • He parried my attack with no problem.†   (source)
  • The slave shifted knife hands, turned inside both parry and feint to grapple the na-Baron's short blade—the one in the white gloved hand that tradition said should carry the poison.†   (source)
  • Parry!†   (source)
  • He parried my overhead cut.†   (source)
  • Ser Jorah parried as best he could, but the slashes came so fast that it seemed to Dany that Qotho had four arakhs and as many arms.†   (source)
  • Her long spear was a steel-headed serpent, flashing out at his chest, once, twice, three times, but Robb parried every thrust with his longsword, turning the point aside.†   (source)
  • Parry, Magnus!†   (source)
  • Backstepping toward the Ra'zac, Roran parried a sword thrust, then swung his hammer up under the man's chin, sending him to the ground.†   (source)
  • The second man-at-arms lunged, Brienne parried, and their swords danced and clanged against each other.†   (source)
  • He came at Jace with a side swing; Jace parried, though the force of Sebastian's blow sent a shock up his arm.†   (source)
  • He lifted his sword to parry a Cyclops's club, then stabbed the monster in the leg, sending him backward into the pit.†   (source)
  • Eragon parried the thrust with a flick of his wrist, swinging Brisingr faster than either a human or an elf could follow.†   (source)
  • I managed to parry a sword strike.†   (source)
  • Max parried the attack, but his movements were now mechanical and sluggish; they had none of his normal strength or fluidity.†   (source)
  • Eragon pivoted around Roran, whose left side was slick with blood, and parried the sword of the other Ra'zac.†   (source)
  • He parried Jaime's last cut lazily and launched a counterattack that drove Jaime back into the river, where his boot slipped out from under him in the mud.†   (source)
  • Neither man had taken up a shield this morning, so it was a game of slash and parry, back and forth across the deck.†   (source)
  • He would throw roundhouse swings that he telegraphed a month in advance, and I could duck or parry them.†   (source)
  • The world would be looking for the crazed American who'd kidnapped Monique de Raison, never suspecting that they were both now in the hands of a third parry.†   (source)
  • Max parried the thrust, seeking to catch the slim blade in his guard, but Cooper retreated, and Max's counterattack met empty air.†   (source)
  • He slashed open the pit fighter's belly, parried the arakh as it wrenched free, then finished Khrazz with a quick thrust to the heart as the pit fighter's entrails came sliding out like a nest of greasy eels.†   (source)
  • She stabbed and parried with her right hand, occasionally shooting tomatoes from the cornucopia in her left, while yelling at the suitors, "Save yourselves!†   (source)
  • The TV is blaring, as usual, offering a ready partner if either needs to momentarily turn away from the exhausting, heart-pricking thrust and parry that sometimes passes for conversation in this cramped apartment.†   (source)
  • Knives flashed, but the baton smoothly parried them and— then swung in a blur, cracking against ribs, knees, knuckles, and cheekbones with appalling accuracy.†   (source)
  • He dodged and parried as the dolphin warriors backed up, guarding the other captives while giving their captain room to battle.†   (source)
  • Keeping his motion under complete control, he pivoted to the right-twisting Zar'roc's point to parry an imaginary blow-then stopped with rigid arms.†   (source)
  • The man in black was slowly being forced toward a group of large boulders, for Inigo was anxious to see how well he moved when quarters were close, when you could not thrust or parry with total freedom.†   (source)
  • He stabbed and parried, dancing on light feet as he forced the steel-clad Rider to retreat toward the edge of the plateau.†   (source)
  • Inigo's eyes began to focus again, not well, not perfectly, but enough to see the Count's blade as it approached his heart, and Inigo couldn't do much with the attack, parry it vaguely, push the point of the blade into his left shoulder where it did no unendurable harm.†   (source)
  • Another guy lounged in a lawn chair, flirting with the girl on his left while he casually parried attacks from the guy standing on his right.†   (source)
  • He stepped inside the giant's guard and stabbed at his chest, but somehow Ephialtes parried the strike.†   (source)
  • "When we left King's Landing we were men of Winterfell and men of parry and men of Blackhaven, Mallery men and Wylde men.†   (source)
  • They lunged around Ephialtes, stabbing and slashing in a blur of gold and bronze, but the giant parried every strike.†   (source)
  • His left arm remained useless, his reflexes were slowing with exhaustion, and this giant was simply too powerful for him to parry any blows.†   (source)
  • An oar was not a sword, but the blade could break a man's face if well swung, and the shaft could be used to parry.†   (source)
  • On edge, however, the blade was almost impossible for him to see, and he timed his parry badly and missed the sword with his hammer.†   (source)
  • Drizzt said little during that first week, though he would occasionally compliment the barbarian about a good parry or counter, or more generally on the improvement Wulfgar was showing in such a short time.†   (source)
  • His reaction was so unexpected, Eragon faltered, then barely had time to recoil and parry as Murtagh retaliated, swinging Zar'roc at him, the blade humming through the air with inordinate speed.†   (source)
  • Eragon parried his dagger twice …. thrice …. and then cut through the dwarf's padded sleeve and scored his dagger arm from the elbow to the wrist.†   (source)
  • Occasionally, he had to parry a cut or a stab, but he tried to avoid exchanging more than a few blows with any one person, because he knew his lack of experience would soon prove fatal.†   (source)
  • Arstan splashed sideways, parried a looping cut, danced away from a second, checked a third mid-swing.†   (source)
  • He parried the man's sword, then stepped past his guard and struck the man on his helm, which rang like an iron pot.†   (source)
  • The third man parried two of Roran's attacks, but then Roran deceived him with a feint and slew him as well.†   (source)
  • He immediately retaliated with a looping overhead attack, but the soldier parried and then slashed at Roran's arms and legs twice more.†   (source)
  • Eragon lunged and parried and dodged, whipping Brisingr through the air as if it weighed no more than a switch.†   (source)
  • Roran parried three separate thrusts, cursing the whole while as he realized that he could not reach past the spears with his hammer.†   (source)
  • He parried and slashed crosswise at her waist, but she skipped out of reach of Brisingr's glittering, sunlit edge.†   (source)
  • Barst retaliated with a counterstroke, which Islanzadi parried with a deft turn of her wrist, sending the spiked ball of his mace crashing into the cobblestones.†   (source)
  • Twice, he parried the staff.†   (source)
  • Its shortcoming is that, unless it is done perfectly, it is too late for parry and riposte; you run your own chest against his point.†   (source)
  • I need food and drink and a long siesta before the fighting starts, or I'll yawn when I should parry.†   (source)
  • He feinted then a chest cut, and at the last instant moved around the parry so that he lay the edge of his weapon high upon the other's wrist.†   (source)
  • He advanced so fast and smoothly that he seemed to apport and our blades rang as I parried his attack in sixte and riposted, was countered—remise, reprise, beat-and-attack—the phrase ran so smoothly, so long, and in such variation that a spectator might have thought that we were running through Grand Salute.†   (source)
  • With his dagger, which he drew as he sprang into a stumbling crouch, he managed to parry the high cut of the other's blade.†   (source)
  • Yama fell back before this onslaught, giving ground foot by foot, moving only his wrist as he parried the blows that fell about him.†   (source)
  • The man in black raised his guard, shaking his head, parried another attack and thrust forward, to be parried again himself.†   (source)
  • There on the hill, Brahma parried Thunderbolt again and again, blood spurting from the stump of his severed left arm and streaming from wounds of the head and chest.†   (source)
  • You're slowing. you know," and I tried a hard, fast, vicious attack, He parried it, but he fell back two paces in doing so.†   (source)
  • I struck at him, hovering there above me, and he parried again, but this carried him beyond the rail.†   (source)
  • I suddenly had the feeling that I couldn't take him, and I parried like mad and retreated in the same fashion as he beat me back, step by step.†   (source)
  • I parried his attack, and he mine.†   (source)
  • Blow by blow he gained advantage; Brom's parries slowed and he lost ground.†   (source)
  • They battled back and forth, thrusting and parrying.†   (source)
  • His fighters screamed, thrusting and parrying and beheading with a practiced frenzy.†   (source)
  • Brienne jumped back, parrying, but he followed, pressing the attack.†   (source)
  • Try, and the axe will take you in the back whilst you are parrying the sword.†   (source)
  • Alec had Sandalphon in one hand, a hachiwara—good for parrying multiple attackers—in the other.†   (source)
  • He has no shield, Jon reminded himself, and that monster sword's too cumbersome for parries.†   (source)
  • He had all that he could handle parrying and counter-thrusting with the two giants he now faced.†   (source)
  • "What now?" he shouted, parrying a spear jabbed at his thigh.†   (source)
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