Parleying

"Parleying" in a Sentence (2 examples)

Those things […] about which he was wont to have long parleyings and disputings with his own conscience — employing carnal reason to invent arguments and pleas of excuse — he now sticks at no longer […]

He and Colonel Rotton, who was also Chairman for a period, could generally make the lads on arrival understand them without much parleying.

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