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Still Parleying with Renard, all the day with Renard, And scarce a greeting all the day for me— And goes to-morrow.

From Queen Mary and Harold by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

Silent those listeners sat Parleying in wordless thought.

From Legends of the Saxon Saints by De Vere, Aubrey

The method of the Parleying is something of a new departure, and at the same time something of a reversion.

From An Introduction to the Study of Browning by Symons, Arthur

Parleying with the rebels is worse than useless.

From Preventable Diseases by Hutchinson, Woods

Of the Badí'a or euphuistic style, "Parleying euphuism," and of AI Saj'a, the prose rhyme, I shall speak in a future page.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 10 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir