parlous
adjective
parlously
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a word derived from
parlous.
Example Sentences
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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 Booth Tarkington
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)
You are so parlously in love with Learning, that I'd be glad to know what you understand, Brother; I'm sure you have read all Aristotle.
From The Works of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher Volume 2 of 10: Introduction to the Elder Brother by John Fletcher
These acts of lethal self-preservation prove conclusively that he knows who he is and that he fully realizes that his acts are parlously illegal.
From Moral Deliberations in Modern Cinema by Samuel Vaknin
"Thou didst fright me parlously, and my coz likewise."
From Men of Iron by Howard Pyle
