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    1. They parried for a bit and then Altera increased the strength of her blows


    2. calm centre in the eye of a storm as he parried and


    3. Salic parried them easily and laughed as they stuck in the side of the boat in a neat row


    4. One of the old Ani’ Yun’-wiya warriors had shown me how to use the spear this way, so I was ready and parried his blunt thrust


    5. Sephiroth parried the assault effortlessly with the Masamune,


    6. or parried with the RCMP in pursuit of his own respective agenda


    7. always one step ahead and easily parried the both of them


    8. “At last,” said the Captain, as he parried yet another thrust from Boglehob


    9. A Hunter came out of nowhere and slashed at me with her knife, but I parried and kept running


    10. but the monster parried his strikes with its horns and breathed fire























































    1. Her eyes of white never leaving those of Solo Ki, she hopped, leaving the blade of the female guard to slice the air below her feet, while she fended off the attack of the other with a series of lightning quick parries, both her blades flashing out to redirect the powerful blow of his long sword


    2. The female forms were designed to accommodate for the fact that women would usually have less force behind their strikes and parries


    3. She felt how all of her parries fell one by one when she looked into his eyes


    4. “So I only learned these standard strikes and parries, and the basics of tactics, mostly as it applies to duels


    5. the thrusts and parries, feints, and jabs as the soldiers attempted to break the defensive ring


    6. immediately and parries the


    7. A furious exchange of blows and parries followed, with Elizabeth putting to good use her souvenirs of combat from her previous life as a Zulu warrior


    8. He pretended a mock adversary and did a few feints, a few parries, a few thrusts, and then, with his sword by his side, he stood waiting for Doog to come out of the tunnel


    9. This is where the large payoffs started, and then it became larger depending on how accurately the gambler predicted the number of hits, feints, thrusts, parries, and so on


    10. All of Ben's feints, thrusts, and parries were deft and accurate







    1. Nathalia kept up with two, three, sometimes even four at a time, but her blades had been reduced to shields, darting in all directions to parry a multitude of blows while every second, a score of her companions were cleaved in half, cut down by the demons' blades as though the wolf helmed beings were reaping wheat


    2. Maldynado’s attempt to parry came too late


    3. Forced to fight for his life, Brokin had quickly countered the unexpected assault, leaving his attacker with little choice but to parry the frenzied blows being rained upon him from every direction


    4. Thrust and parry, thrust and parry


    5. This time my parry threw me a little off balance but not so much that I couldn’t hold on to my spear when he slammed my ribs with the butt end of his spear


    6. These were not hard to parry with our shields, but weariness was telling on the men


    7. parry sent the flying blade back towards its wielder, forcing the


    8. Cloud blocked the strike, his triceps burning as he fought to parry


    9. But I was also trained with these fuller motions required to use and to parry heavy weapons and to strike through armor


    10. So He flooded the earth knowing that one day all those same people that died would have another chance to be saved! Praise and glory to God! As my friend Chuck Parry says, “God’s idea of justice is that He took personal responsibility for all of His creations sins





























































    1. Grindel and Brokin fought near the entrance to the chamber, both lost to the depths of their rage, thrusting and parrying with flashing claws as they tried to kill each other


    2. parrying the attack with the blunt edge, the strength of the block


    3. She stepped back coolly, parrying the strokes and watching for her chance to thrust home


    4. The remaining Nemedian, missing a savage swipe, had his brains dashed out before he could recover his balance, and an instant later the Aquilonian was backed into a corner, desperately parrying the crashing strokes that rained about him, lacking opportunity even to scream for help


    5. Lezura whirled her spear with an artistic grace, parrying repeated attacks from three Cyries at once


    6. quick for her, parrying the thrust of her blow with the radio,


    7. For the past two hours she had sat glaring at the No Smoking sign on the dashboard and parrying his chat-up banter


    8. ����������� ��Hell!� Who�se that fury?��� Said one of the policemen as Nancy used a nearby car to bounce high in the air and do a summersault above the head of her assailant while parrying with her ASP another knife thrust


    9. He had his knives, but they were no use for parrying


    10. Liam poked his head out of the fray while still parrying the rain of blows effortlessly





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    Synonyms for "parry"

    counter counterpunch parry circumvent dodge duck elude evade fudge hedge put off sidestep skirt block deflect by-pass avert rebuke avoid rebuff evasion prevention

    "parry" definitions

    (fencing) blocking a lunge or deflecting it with a circular motion of the sword


    a return punch (especially by a boxer)


    impede the movement of (an opponent or a ball)


    avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues)