Not that he could fairly be called a temporizer, for deep down in him there was undoubtedly a vein of obstinate, fundamental loyalty to the traditions of a caste which prized high spirit beyond all things.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Patrician] Reference

Lavim did not consider himself a liar, or even a temporizer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stormblade]

I held that even defeat with Grant was better than success with a temporizer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life and Times of Frederick Douglass, Written by Himself. His Early Life as a Slave, His Escape from Bondage, and His Complete History to the Present Time, Including His Connection with the Anti-slavery Movement; His Labors in Great Britain as Well as in His Own Country; His Experience in the Conduct of an Influential Newspaper; His Connection with the Underground Railroad; His Relations with John Brown and the Harper's Ferry Raid; His Recruiting the 54th and 55th Mass. Colored Regiments; His Interviews with Presidents Lincoln and Johnson; His Appointment by Gen. Grant to Accompany the Santo Domingo Commission--Also to a Seat in the Council of the District of Columbia; His Appointment as United States Marshal by President R. B. Hayes; Also His Appointment to Be Recorder of Deeds in Washington by President J. A. Garfield; with Many Other Interesting and Important Events of His Most Eventful Life; With an Introduction by Mr. George L. Ruffin, of Boston] Reference

But he feared Francis, and hoped that such a vacillating temporizer might abdicate in favor of some thoroughly trustworthy successor.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. III. (of IV.)] Reference

Does it see what finally befalls, and has always finally befallen, each temporizer, patcher, outsider, partialist, alarmist, infidel, who has ever ask'd any thing of America?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Patriotic Poems of Walt Whitman] Reference

Does it see what finally befalls, and has always finally befallen, each temporizer, patcher, outsider, partialist, alarmist, infidel, who has ever ask’d anything of America?.    From Wordnik.com.  [As I Sat Alone by Blue Ontario’s Shores] Reference

Edward could, indeed, as we have seen, be false and crafty, a temporizer, a dissimulator; but it was only as the tiger creeps, -- the better to spring, undetected, on its prey.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Last of the Barons — Complete] Reference

In the East, the Anomoeans turned almost as a matter of course to Acacius of Caesarea, whose influence was growing stronger at court and who was felt to be a shrewd and not too scrupulous temporizer.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize] Reference

The action of Miss Florence Belgarnic at the recent World's W.C.T.U. convention in London will always stand out as one of conspicuous bravery, and the fact that she stood alone proves nothing so much as that Miss Willard is a great leader as well as what we claim for her -- a great temporizer in matters pertaining to southern sentiment.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Woman's Era, Vol. 2] Reference

"We shell see, " temporizer the Matriarch.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Shadow Sorceress]

Or else a hovering temporizer, that.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Winter's Tale] Reference

The temporizer could temporize no longer.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. III. (of IV.)] Reference

Never was there less of a flunkey or temporizer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy] Reference

Befallen, each temporizer, patcher, outsider.    From Wordnik.com.  [Leaves of Grass [1867]] Reference