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Definition of Parrying
1. parry [v] - See also: parry
Lexicographical Neighbors of Parrying
Literary usage of Parrying
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life by George Eliot (1873)
"He had hit on a more ingenious mode of parrying than he was aware of. He had
touched a motive of which Sir James was ashamed. The mass of his feeling about ..."
2. National Militia Standard, Embracing the Discipline of Infantry, Light by Pierce Darrow (1822)
"MODES OF parrying. We now arrive at the different modes of parrying, which are
five in front, (including the one already practised, under the denomination ..."
3. Rosamond, a sequel to Early lessons by Maria Edgeworth (1821)
"It was observed, tkat she and her brother always attended t<? good conversation,
instead of parrying «»,, as many young person^ 4o, all Ate twe any rational ..."
4. Aristocracy in America by Francis Joseph Grund (1839)
"Mr. Van Buren's Method of parrying an Invective.— Discussion of General Jackson's
Character. — Jackson and Wellington's similarity of Character. ..."
5. The Law of Horses: Including the Law of Innkeepers, Veterinary Surgeons, Etc by George Henry Hewitt Oliphant, Clement Elphinstone Lloyd (1882)
"parrying, &c. in the street. Horse standing- to be shod not dia- trainable.
Horse may be detained for the price of his shoeing. Such Lien is favoured by law ..."
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