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Then again, your opponents will parry your attacks as well, sometimes over and over and over again. Occasionally you’ll even lock blades, making you vulnerable to a second opponent in the meantime.

From Forbes • Oct. 9, 2012

I shall wait a while now to see how they will parry this thrust.

From Works of Martin Luther With Introductions and Notes (Volume I) by Luther, Martin

ALL, ALL, will be thrown on you!—I will parry the blow as much as in my power: I foresee much mischief brewing.

From The Life of Horatio Lord Nelson by Southey, Robert

All, all, will be thrown on you: I will parry the blow as much as in my power; I foresee much mischief brewing.

From Drake, Nelson and Napoleon by Runciman, Walter

You've but to lunge, and I will parry.

From Faust by Taylor, Bayard