All 8 Uses
parry
in
Glory Road
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- I need food and drink and a long siesta before the fighting starts, or I'll yawn when I should parry.†
Chpt 9parry = to avoid
- There is a go-for-broke tactic, "the target," taught by the best swordmasters, which consists in headlong advance with arm, wrist, and blade in full extension--all attack and no attempt to parry.
Chpt 15 *parry = use one's blade to turn aside the blade of an opponent
- 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.†
Chpt 15parried = avoided
- He respected it, not attacking, playing with the end of my blade, tiny counters and leather-touch parries.†
Chpt 15
- It caught him barely off guard but he failed to fall back, parrying strongly instead and suddenly we were in an untenable position, corps-a-corps, forte-a-forte, almost tete-a-tete.†
Chpt 15
- Instead of parrying to carte, you press and bind, sliding all the way down and around his blade and corkscrewing in till your point finds flesh.†
Chpt 15
- 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.†
Chpt 15parry = to avoid
- She eyed me as if ready to parry or retreat.†
Chpt 19
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)