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The administration speaks with pride of its forbearing, that is, parleying, policy.

From Diary from March 4, 1861, to November 12, 1862 by De Gurowski, Adam G., count

A threatening attorney shakes his fist at the villakin where at the window the wit is parleying with him.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 01, November, 1857 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

While this person is parleying with the chief of the servants, Lord Holchester, passing from one room to another, happens to cross the inner end of the hall.

From Man and Wife by Collins, Wilkie