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Against his will and against his nature he began to temporize, meaning later to revenge his present humiliation upon his son. From Wordnik.com. [Winnie Childs The Shop Girl] Reference
But Baneelon, though haughty, knew how to temporize. From Wordnik.com. [The Settlement at Port Jackson] Reference
"I could temporize or perhaps rationalize my actions.". From Wordnik.com. [Analog Science Fiction and Fact]
Sagasta, who, to temporize with America, recalled the inflexible. From Wordnik.com. [The Philippine Islands] Reference
It is the worst possible policy to temporize with a blackmailer. From Wordnik.com. [Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology] Reference
"We're in no position to temporize," the city manager was saying. From Wordnik.com. [Cities In Flight]
Eliza as to the criticism of food put before one, made her temporize. From Wordnik.com. [The Heart of Arethusa] Reference
These circumstances allow Obama to temporize, in a number of respects. From Wordnik.com. [Michael Brenner: Obama Will Not Strike Iran] Reference
Why temporize by adopting half-way measures and a policy of indirection?. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States] Reference
Thus Blake tried to temporize, so that he might think what was best to do. From Wordnik.com. [The Moving Picture Boys on the Coast] Reference
Did they temporize with a henious evil, because it was common and popular?. From Wordnik.com. [Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject] Reference
In the case that thus was presented there was no opportunity to temporize. From Wordnik.com. [The Aztec Treasure-House] Reference
From stark necessity, she put her whole reliance on an effort to temporize. From Wordnik.com. [Heart of the Blue Ridge] Reference
Never temporize with a man who has broken his promise as to the liquor habit. From Wordnik.com. [Watch Yourself Go By] Reference
But, like Israel's leaders since Rabin, they for the most part chose to temporize. From Wordnik.com. [Exit Olmert] Reference
Don't temporize, don't delay, don't regard lightly any diarrhea during the summer time. From Wordnik.com. [The Eugenic Marriage, Volume IV. (of IV.) A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies] Reference
This realist existed and this is why it was impossible to temporize with this situation. From Wordnik.com. [CASTRO SPEAKS ON EDUCATION AND PARASITES] Reference
I saw his meaning, and did not for a second believe him; but I had the sense to temporize. From Wordnik.com. [Prester John] Reference
She had expected them to temporize because of her long association with enemies of the empire. From Wordnik.com. [An Ill Fate Marshalling]
The British TUC in 1954 agreed to 'temporize on basic principles' and support this exclusion of. From Wordnik.com. [11 SACTU ON THE INTERNATIONAL FRONT] Reference
Given your cartoonishly conceived human compassion, care to temporize profoundly on such as this?. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
He was an honest and a most loyal man, but was willing to temporize upon the most vital questions. From Wordnik.com. [Fifty Years of Public Service] Reference
Until that proof is made, the Court tends to resist implementation, or temporize, or a bit of both. From Wordnik.com. [Hullabaloo] Reference
So Clement in his bewilderment was led to temporize, to make promises to Henry and then evade them. From Wordnik.com. [General History for Colleges and High Schools] Reference
Never temporize if there is any suspicion of the existence of such diseases as consumption or cancer. From Wordnik.com. [The Home Medical Library, Volume II (of VI)] Reference
I knew how to behave in parlous circumstances, to temporize and compromise, a lesson taught me by my father. From Wordnik.com. [Borrowed Finery, A Memoir]
The authorities, taken by surprise, were forced to temporize and agreed to lay the petition before the emperor. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"] Reference
If you fail or hesitate to recognize the truth, if you temporize or procrastinate, you are only deferring the issue. From Wordnik.com. [The Eugenic Marriage, Vol 2 (of 4) A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies] Reference
It is not here to temporize, but to make all things new, and it strikes at the heart of evil and not at its surface. From Wordnik.com. [The American Missionary — Volume 43, No. 09, September, 1889] Reference
A disposition to temporize was manifested in these localities, soon after their principles had been judicially exhibited. From Wordnik.com. [Act, Declaration, & Testimony for the Whole of our Covenanted Reformation, as Attained to, and Established in Britain and Ireland; Particularly Betwixt the Years 1638 and 1649, Inclusive] Reference
As elected officials posture and temporize, families are bankrupted by health-care costs and forgo treatment they can't afford. From Wordnik.com. [Hope Springs Eternal] Reference
Before you temporize and go too far with the fish grab agenda, you need to first determine where we are actually losing the fish. From Wordnik.com. [Striped Bass Are Gamefish] Reference
And so she will temporize, using salves and washes, and the disease will in the meantime be making progress, that is, getting worse. From Wordnik.com. [Woman Her Sex and Love Life] Reference
He was prepared to temporize, but there was no need for him to contemplate surrender, or flight, so long as Bailey remained at large. From Wordnik.com. [Hidden Gold] Reference
Dan Cassey, shaking in every limb, tried to temporize, and stuttered until he got red in the face and seemed on the point of apoplexy. From Wordnik.com. [The Radio Boys' First Wireless Or Winning the Ferberton Prize] Reference
But when the Bosnian Serb assembly rejected the plan, they also called for a referendum, which fed a mounting European urge to temporize. From Wordnik.com. [The Road To Indecision] Reference
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