Word: parleyed
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Evans, H R A, 15 Parley Vale, Jamadica Plain...
...opening chorus was scarcely over when an excited personage in gray whiskers rushed in and informed the director that the performance could not go on, as the Symphony Orchestra was rehearsing in the adjoining room. After a short parley, a compromise was agreed upon by which the H. P. C. company deferred their rehearsal until Mr. Damrosch and his orchestra should have time to give more strict attention to the able directing of Mr. Daniels - who as Mr. Damrosch confidentially remarked, was the only man that he considered his superior as an orchestral director. As Mr. Damrosch begged so earnestly...
...Espanol or French call upon you with a delightful tale of having just arrived in Boston from Havana on a ship with fine cigars which they have smuggled in and will sell to you dirt cheap at $5 per hundred - if such creatures call upon you, stop neither to parley with them or buy their wares, but turn them out of the premises at once. The men are impostors and their wares fraudulent. A visit was paid to the Law School a day or two ago by the fellows, but they were remembered from last year and men were...
...rowed at 10 o'clock, if the Harvard men were anxious to leave New London, and that it either be rowed down and against the current, or up and with it. Mr. Bancroft insisted upon 12 o'clock as the only hour which suited his crew. After some further parley he said: 'You will row at 10 or you will row at 1, but you will not row at 12." Without another word he left the Columbia...
Doctor M-ner immediately arose, and, after quoting the beautiful lines, "Peter Parley pickt a peck of pickled peppers," &c., said that if Algernon were given to the use of spirituous drinks he (M-ner) should withdraw from the Club. As no one made any objections to this, the reverend doctor did not withdraw...