Example Sentences

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"Thou didst fright me parlously, and my coz likewise."

From Men of Iron by Pyle, Howard

By any meanes, our thing of learning saies so: Where he himselfe will edifie the Duke Most parlously in our behalfes: hees excellent i'th woods; Bring him to'th plaines, his learning makes no cry.

From The Two Noble Kinsmen by Shakespeare (spurious and doubtful works)

Faith, Master Sad, he's parlously in the right.

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays Volume 14 of 15 by Dodsley, Robert

As everyone knows, he was always an advocate of Compulsory Universal Service for Home Defence, but he casts no stone at those who so long and parlously delayed to learn their lesson.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, March 21, 1917 by Various

She was directly opposite the Sheridan Building then, waiting for the traffic to thin before she crossed, though other people were risking the passage, darting and halting and dodging parlously.

From The Turmoil, a novel by Tarkington, Booth