But her stainless heart was too proud in virtue to palter and equivocate with circumstances. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 361, Supplementary Issue (1829)] Reference
They need not palter with the stale and timid compromise and convention called Birth-Control. From Wordnik.com. [Vintage Distributism] Reference
“How, or what do you mean?” said Nigel; “I will break your head, you drunken knave, if you palter with me any longer.”. From Wordnik.com. [The Fortunes of Nigel] Reference
“But,” continued the baron anxiously, “what hope that this juggling slave of Saladin will not palter with your Grace?”. From Wordnik.com. [The Talisman] Reference
'To palter in a double sense' has ever been the practice of philosophers who, like Bacon, knew more than they found it discreet to utter. From Wordnik.com. [An Apology for Atheism Addressed to Religious Investigators of Every Denomination by One of Its Apostles] Reference
A horson dog, that shal palter thus with vs, would. From Wordnik.com. [Troilus and Cressida (1623 First Folio Edition)] Reference
I will not palter and parley with the unholy thing. From Wordnik.com. [The Woman Who Did] Reference
Here, then, thou shalt not palter with or elude me. From Wordnik.com. [Zanoni] Reference
We refused to palter longer with the miseries of Cuba. From Wordnik.com. [Republican Hand-Book North Carolina. Republican State Executive Committee 1906] Reference
Rugged Bhima will not palter, fatal is the vow he made. From Wordnik.com. [Maha-bharata The Epic of Ancient India Condensed into English Verse] Reference
Aziel could no longer palter with himself, it was the truth. From Wordnik.com. [Elissa] Reference
Temptations to palter with my conscience; victory over them. From Wordnik.com. [Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White, Volume I] Reference
Never for an instant did either of these palter with the other. From Wordnik.com. [A Son of Hagar A Romance of Our Time] Reference
She made the fool a duke, in hope With Heaven's taboo to palter. From Wordnik.com. [INTERNET WIRETAP: The Devil's Dictionary, by Ambrose Bierce (1993 Edition)] Reference
Corbett; but she was not the woman to palter with her convictions. From Wordnik.com. [The Lamp of Psyche] Reference
A hoarson dog that shall palter with us thus, would he were a Troyan?. From Wordnik.com. [The Historie of Troylus and Cresseida (1609 Edition)] Reference
He mustn't palter, or trifle, or shilly-shally about that iron certainty. From Wordnik.com. [The Devil's Garden] Reference
Why must he "palter in a double sense," and blow hot and cold in one breath?. From Wordnik.com. [Apologia pro Vita Sua] Reference
We will find someone to do it when we palter with starvation at the Café du Bel. From Wordnik.com. [A Chair on the Boulevard] Reference
The honour of the school was in question, and he had no right to palter with that. From Wordnik.com. [The Willoughby Captains] Reference
It is in vain to palter with our conscience: there are not two honours -- two honesties. From Wordnik.com. [Tales and Novels — Volume 05] Reference
She could not speak out her very thought, and to palter with solemn words was impossible. From Wordnik.com. [A Life's Morning] Reference
But though his language is calm and restrained, he never condescends to palter with slavery. From Wordnik.com. [Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln, 1832-1865] Reference
Thou laggard sonorous Beer-vat, with the loud voice and timber head, is it time now to palter?. From Wordnik.com. [The French Revolution] Reference
Alabama, refused to palter with any plan not built on the proposition that slavery was in itself right. From Wordnik.com. [History of the United States] Reference
He is nothing -- unless we palter with the meaning of words -- but a clerk in the office at the stores where we pay. From Wordnik.com. [Somehow Good] Reference
He does not palter with problems of right and wrong, nor hesitate over his moral judgements; casuistry is wholly alien to his temper. From Wordnik.com. [Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal] Reference
Do not palter with them, father --- do not, mother; and above all things, don't attempt to sacrifice the happiness of your only daughter. From Wordnik.com. [The Evil Eye; Or, The Black Spector The Works of William Carleton, Volume One] Reference
I will not palter with it, I accept your offer -- ". From Wordnik.com. [Gallantry Dizain des Fetes Galantes] Reference
"We create and destroy on palter with amazing facility. From Wordnik.com. [The Devil's Paw] Reference
I have found no time to palter with the fripperies of women. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Lost Continent] Reference
Go speedily, else thou mayst stand and palter with me too long. ". From Wordnik.com. [Hero-Myths & Legends of the British Race] Reference
“escobarder” came to signify “to palter in a double sense.”. From Wordnik.com. [Pascal] Reference
The man who dares palter with such a measure is a rebel, a traitor to his party and his people. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Clansman An Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan] Reference
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