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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

    11. The Knights of Coermantyr parried the thrusting blades of the orcs tactfully and counter-attacked a number of them


    12. Gnoll and his wood trolls parried the strikes of their attackers with their shields and counter-attacked with their broadswords


    13. They parried the slashing claws and fangs of the dragon and countered with their broadswords


    14. Reoren parried the flurry of strikes from the minotaurs and counter-attacked with a studded mace, similar to the one Bors used


    15. Blueblood rode into the scene and was about to render a serious infliction to Torvald’s flank when he parried the attack just in time


    16. He swung his scimitar at Gnoll who parried the attack with his longsword


    17. They parried and evaded the swinging claws of the wolf creatures


    18. Jalhi glanced at the small dragons as she parried against an orc


    19. Torvald and Satvinder parried the rapid strikes of their adversaries and the other fighters in the group followed suit


    20. The gaunt humanoids parried and lunged with their steel weapons

    21. Llewellyn and his Qualinesti Elves were experienced fighters and parried the blows of the Nozroth


    22. I verbally parried with him for a while before I


    23. Sparks flashed blue as Conan parried the blade, and the next instant the madman was stretched senseless in the dust from a thundering buffet of Conan's left fist


    24. With a lion-like roar the Cimmerian parried the whistling blade, then dropping his own sword, gripped the prince and heaved him high above his head by crotch and neck


    25. Three of the four were down, dying in their own blood, and the fourth was bleeding from half a dozen wounds, stumbling in headlong retreat as he parried frantically, when Conan's spur caught in the surcoat of one of the fallen men


    26. Joey backpedaled and parried the other Cyri’s slash with the handle of his bat, sidestepped and whacked the Cyri in the head


    27. She was easily avoided them and parried them by striking Joey’s arm


    28. The soldier parried S’us two strikes and knocked her with the butt of his gun in the head


    29. Yeltsa reached for her knuckledusters and parried the first attack while on her back


    30. Onn lashed down at her but Tylin parried them, Onn repeated his assault with Tylin, constantly blocking, finally she was shown some mercy when Oleon, both arms cloaked in the Hiranien and ending in massive claws, slashed Onn repeatedly across the back

    31. In that instant Onn got up to his feet and parried the blows


    32. As Josef parried remark for remark with the Duke he caught a


    33. machine drew his own sword and parried the thrust with a well-


    34. victim once more, but this time the Duke parried the blow with


    35. Noosh smiled and parried yet another thunderous punch with a side step, making Milner swivel around the Perso- Iraqi boy’s right leg which stood rooted to the ground


    36. “And a very good morning to you too, Mr Scully,” parried Rudolph


    37. The balled point of Len’s sword was quickly piercing the air on its way to Ben’s chest, which, if it found its mark would end the match, but Ben easily stepped back and parried the thrust


    38. Len parried the thrust but the sudden changing of hands threw him off balance, which gave Ben the opening he was looking for


    39. Two minutes and fourteen seconds from the end of the round, Ben parried, thrust, switched hands in mid air and thrust toward Zirnen’s chest


    40. Zirnen parried in time to keep from being hit in the chest and thereby losing the match, then with the sinuosity of a striking snake he lunged at Ben’s stomach

    41. He stepped back, parried the thrust with a counter thrust and ended the match


    42. After two minutes into the round Ben parried, stepped back, parried, stepped back, parried, and then stepped forward which caught Talman by surprise


    43. One of the three attackers lunged at her on seeing this but she parried easily his blade, then followed with a slash to the man’s face that left a long cut across his forehead, making him scream with pain while blood blinded him within seconds


    44. I figure I’ll hit whatever weak areas I can so my next attack was a lunge with my left which he parried again with his right


    45. I lunged for him and he parried


    46. When he parried I used my left hand to punch him in the face


    47. stepped, feigned and parried as if she’d been fighting faceless trolls all her life


    48. Michael parried it with the shield but it was ripped from his grasp by the


    49. Nord parried the blow, deflecting the ax head towards the rock floor


    50. In between the echoes, Guo Yuxia had parried several attacks, and beads of



















    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

    11. They had obviously wagered on a short match, and now, those who wagered most accurately, within the fifteen-second window, and on the number of thrusts, feints, parries, and rare maneuvers would be the big winners


    12. Ben started with a series of parries and half thrusts, which were meant to fool the antagonist into believing an offensive move was coming


    13. Another, even more intricate exchange of passes and parries followed for a good minute, an eternity in professional fencing, with the movement of their blades so quick that one could barely follow them visually


    14. Severus gritted his teeth and engaged Otho in a series of strikes and parries


    15. Now even his parries were slower a lot and he was slowly unable to hold on


    16. The way this is been performed is many years of training hard in all defense and attacks in as many art as possible including to finally create your own common sense own art for example you learn things such as all punches kicks knees elbows so on and defense like blocks parries ducks moving out the way in constant movements, so on so ones you perfect these you have to make the hands body legs think for themselves the way you do that is you don't say this is the best thing to do like blocking or punching or peering or this or that by the time you think to which punch to use and which defense to use and by the time you react to when you strike are 4 thought away from just one responding in letting it go to strike for itself now that is faster just one thought just strike nor do you say today I think I use this technique you must be dead to thought and have a plan to react intently without one reacting with your reflexes in


    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

    11. The first ranks fell upon Barrad like a wave that would have drowned any normal person, but his movements were practically superhuman – side step, riposte, parry, lunge – two men fell dead


    12. Here’s another cool testimony from a great friend of mine, Chuck Parry, who had a visitation of the Lord one day where He was taken to heaven:


    13. The parry stopped the blow that would have easily split the magician’s head in two


    14. He covered the ground with remarkable speed to the first man, who barely had time to bring up his blade in time to parry


    15. Boys and girls flip over themselves, splash water over your face, your bangs hang right above eye level, you parry jets spewing from the mouths of play fighters


    16. The merfolk were forced to parry the strikes of the longer weapons with their curved daggers


    17. They were desperate to defeat the Maegar Dwarves but could not summon the strength to parry their berserker attacks


    18. But they were closer to him than he was to the door, and with one foot on the sill he had to wheel and parry the swipe of a yard-long blade


    19. Her sword darted past a blade that sought to parry, and sheathed six inches of its point in a leather-guarded midriff


    20. He caught the sword of the first man on his ax-head and crushed in the wielder's breast with a murderous counterstroke before he could step back or parry

    21. Keep the blade close to you when you parry


    22. cits a well-informed parry on Stallman's part


    23. As Joseph spun with the parry he heard a


    24. Unknown to him the parry had done more


    25. Now Jason was fencing with him, thrust, a question, parry with an unhelpful answer


    26. Thrust, thrust, parry, thrust, thrust, and then the tip of Ben’s sword hit Zirnen’s sword hand


    27. Ben countered in time to keep from losing the match, but his parry wasn’t enough to keep Zirnen’s sword from hitting his shoulder


    28. When the buzzer stopped Ben jumped back, quickly faked a parry of Zirnen's first thrust, stepped to the right, and scored another point with a thrust of his own to Zirnen's left biceps


    29. It was clearly his turn to land a few punches in the verbal parry


    30. the thrust and parry of mind games and strategy

    31. Quickly slipping back in her belt her two empty pistols, she then grabbed back her nagemaki in time to parry down the point of a lance trusted at her and in turn jabbed in the throat the unhorsed samurai running at her


    32. The momentum of the attack and his parry forced me toward his right side and he tried to stab me with the knife


    33. The goalkeeper could only parry


    34. hand that was holding his sword to parry mine


    35. right hand was holding his long sword, and his left hand had to hold the coffin and to parry at the same time!


    36. Ring on his right hand to parry and used his left hand to receive it


    37. expressions changed and extended his hands to parry his moves


    38. exponent such as Ge Zhonghai, Nangong Ping could only parry and there was no


    39. They came to, this time Sophie moved correctly and there was the attack, parry, attack, parry, with the clacking rhythm of a violent dance


    40. The crow tried to parry the budgie’s next attack

    41. Hooting with laughter, Tucker stumbled back, grabbing another rod on the fly and bringing it up to parry


    42. The creature snarled and raised the lance for an attack, Galahad tried to parry, but his sword arm was still numb from contact with such a deadly


    43. ' Senator Parry Up said at the time of the massacre, in defense of O'Really's patriotic, but slightly overly enthusiastic, pursuit of imagined threats: 'He was, after all, a former Regal Scout, the highest rank in the Reagan Eagle Squadron, with a twenty-second level public security clearance


    44. ” she jokingly pretended to parry the verbal volley


    45. more than parry the Jedi blades and dodge and dance out of the way


    46. combatants Iratus used his left saber to parry the Jedi blade down and to


    47. She must, like Miss Parry, have been in her early forties: "Miss Robinson's last chance", the affair had been dubbed


    48. He wondered whether Miss Parry had found her last chance in Dr Whittaker and if she was prepared to fight for it


    49. He couldn't believe the elegant, if slightly repressed, Miss Parry, would be anything but extremely put out in similar circumstances


    50. 'We believe that the victim entered the grounds of the hospital by the side gate, Miss Parry

























    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

    11. To the amazement of the watching Knot each of Karlov's blows were met by Eugenie's parrying sword or thin air as she side stepped


    12. As the sun was sinking, Hazel brought them all together, under close cheerful, he could feel that they were on edge, and after parrying one or two cover, to chew pellets and rest


    13. He had hit on a more ingenious mode of parrying than he was aware of


    14. We danced betwixt the swaying Hammocks, feinting, thrusting, parrying, and playing Hide and Seek


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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)