All 22 Uses
parry
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Mrs. Dalloway
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- But he had never got on well with old Parry, that querulous, weak-kneed old man, Clarissa's father, Justin Parry.†
parry = to avoid
- But he had never got on well with old Parry, that querulous, weak-kneed old man, Clarissa's father, Justin Parry.†
- She had either been engaged to somebody or quarrelled with her family and old Parry disliked them both equally, which was a great bond.†
- He had gone in to dinner rather late, from some idiotic idea of making himself felt, and had sat down by old Miss Parry—Aunt Helena—Mr.†
- Parry's sister, who was supposed to preside.†
- Afterwards he could remember standing by old Miss Parry's chair in the drawing-room.†
- There he stood by Miss Parry's chair as though he had been cut out of wood, he talking about wild flowers.†
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- He must have forgotten even to pretend to listen; at last he woke up; he saw Miss Parry looking rather disturbed, rather indignant, with her prominent eyes fixed.†
- Don't you want to go with them?" said Aunt Helena—old Miss Parry!†
- It was an extraordinary summer—all letters, scenes, telegrams—arriving at Bourton early in the morning, hanging about till the servants were up; appalling tête-à-têtes with old Mr. Parry at breakfast; Aunt Helena formidable but kind; Sally sweeping him off for talks in the vegetable garden; Clarissa in bed with headaches.†
- To see your own sister killed by a falling tree (all Justin Parry's fault—all his carelessness) before your very eyes, a girl too on the verge of life, the most gifted of them, Clarissa always said, was enough to turn one bitter.†
- It seemed so fitting—one of nature's masterpieces—that old Miss Parry should turn to glass.†
- There was old Miss Parry, her aunt.†
- For Miss Helena Parry was not dead: Miss Parry was alive.†
- For Miss Helena Parry was not dead: Miss Parry was alive.†
- "There's Peter Walsh!" she said, shaking hands with that agreeable sinner, that very able fellow who should have made a name for himself but hadn't (always in difficulties with women), and, of course, old Miss Parry.†
- Lady Bruton stood by Miss Parry's chair, a spectral grenadier, draped in black, inviting Peter Walsh to lunch; cordial; but without small talk, remembering nothing whatever about the flora or fauna of India.†
- The Prime Minister had just been telling her (old Miss Parry huddled up in her shawl, did not care what the Prime Minister had just been telling her), and Lady Bruton would like to have Peter Walsh's opinion, he being fresh from the centre, and she would get Sir Sampson to meet him, for really it prevented her from sleeping at night, the folly of it, the wickedness she might say, being a soldier's daughter.†
- It was old Miss Parry certainly—the old aunt who used to be so cross when she stayed at Bourton.†
- Never should she forget running along the passage naked, and being sent for by Miss Parry!†
- And Mr. Parry was dead; and Miss Parry was still alive.†
- And Mr. Parry was dead; and Miss Parry was still alive.†
Definitions:
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(1)
(parry) to block or deflect an attack; or to avoid answering something by responding cleverly or indirectly
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)