| 1. | My blade was swinging with the rapidity of lightning as I sought to parry the thrusts and cuts of my opponents. - from A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs |
| 2. | "Then give me water," cried Danglars, endeavoring to parry the blow. - from The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, Pere |
| 3. | Hyde whom I described was to have full liberty and power about my house in the square and to parry mishaps, I even called and made myself a familiar object, in my second character. - from Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson |
| 4. | made but a faint attempt to parry this unexpected blow the monarchy he had scarcely reconstructed tottered on its precarious foundation, and at a sign from the emperor the incongruous structure of ancient prejudices and new ideas fell to the ground. - from The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, Pere |