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Ranger Higgins parried with his rifle-barrel, found it too heavy, drew his own knife, and gallantly closed. They locked and swayed and panted and stabbed. The Indian proved much the stronger, but he had no liking for this knife work. He hurled Tom sprawling, and hastened to a rifle. After all, a bullet was the surest weapon against this kind of a white man.
For a time she parried every question, but an outburst so strangely unlike Chris Blanchard had its roots deeper than the crushing temporary disaster which he had brought with him. Clement, suspecting, importuned for the truth, gathered it from her, then passed away into the dusk, faced with the greatest problem that existence had as yet set him.
Genevieve was also curious to learn and very naturally so what had transpired between Belle and me. "How is she now?" I parried. I had concluded that when Miss Belle was again her normal self, she would rather have our little episode forgotten. "Calm as a graven image," was the reply. Grief and anxiety trembled in Genevieve's voice.
Could the wariest statesman have better parried that question?
“He talks very coherently,” thought Ivan, “though he does mumble; what’s the derangement of his faculties that Herzenstube talked of?” “You are cunning with me, damn you!” he exclaimed, getting angry. “But I thought at the time that you quite guessed,” Smerdyakov parried with the simplest air. “If I’d guessed, I should have stayed,” cried Ivan.
He came up and said: "If I had been here you would not have turned that ox out. I would have switched you if you had tried it." "Kennedy," I said, "I have lost property enough without your oppressing me any more." He shoved his fist under my nose. I parried his blow, and told him that he would do well to keep at a proper distance from me. He again made a pass at me.
During four hundred years preceding Lord Verulam philosophers would have flown by aid of a broomstick. Bacon himself would have merely parried the problem with a platitude! At any rate, physicists, even in the brilliant seventeenth century, made no material progress towards the navigation of the air, and thus presently let the simple mechanic step in before them.
William Murray Bradshaw tried all his fascinations upon her, but she parried compliments so well, and put off all his nearer advances so dexterously, that he could not advance beyond the region of florid courtesy, and never got a chance, if so disposed, to risk a question which he would not ask rashly, believing that, if Myrtle once said No, there would be little chance of her ever saying Yes.
An irregularly shaped hole immediately below the window showed where Vane had alighted. Footprints distinct enough indicated the direction taken. "If you're not satisfied search the house." "I'll take your word. Who's your friend? You wouldn't lift your little finger to save a stranger." "Who's the girl?" Sally parried in a flash. "What's she like?" Rofflash had sharp wits.
"But," persisted Schetz, "do you fairly, promise to submit to all which the states-general shall ordain, as well on this point of religious exercise in Holland and Zealand, as on all the others?" This was a home thrust. The Prince parried it for a while.
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