All 12 Uses
parry
in
Lord of Light
(Auto-generated)
- Twice, he parried the staff.†
Part 2 *parried = avoided
- Yama fell back before this onslaught, giving ground foot by foot, moving only his wrist as he parried the blows that fell about him.†
Part 3
- His parries widened slightly, but his ripostes became more sudden now, and were interspersed with feints and unexpected attacks.†
Part 3
- The man in black raised his guard, shaking his head, parried another attack and thrust forward, to be parried again himself.†
Part 3parried = avoided
- The man in black raised his guard, shaking his head, parried another attack and thrust forward, to be parried again himself.†
Part 3
- Yet, the other met his attacks, parrying wider and wider, retreating faster and faster now, but still managing to hold him off as he backed away, counterthrusting as he went.†
Part 3
- 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.†
Part 3parry = to avoid
- Leaping backward, parrying wildly and cutting at Yama's head, the man in black came into a position at the head of the log that lay above the crevice that led down to the stream.†
Part 3
- Their blades bound and disengaged, feinted, thrust, parried, riposted.†
Part 3parried = avoided
- Casting aside the cloak and raising his guard, he parried Yama's new attack.†
Part 3
- 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.†
Part 3parry = to avoid
- 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.†
Part 7parried = avoided
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)