Byron was not above "paltering" with his readers "in.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 5 Poetry] Reference

And yet (the fact is palpable) the Democrats are paltering.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Bromwich: Iran, the Decider, and the Enablers] Reference

The paltering of the king called forth the patriotism of the people.    From Wordnik.com.  [Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries] Reference

The Parthian glance of contempt that reached me through her tears showed that the lady understood and despised my paltering.    From Wordnik.com.  [Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War] Reference

No more subservient paltering at the doors of fish-houses!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blow The Man Down A Romance Of The Coast - 1916] Reference

It looked like paltering and peddling, like sale and barter.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Drama Of Three Hundred & Sixty-Five Days Scenes In The Great War] Reference

But there was no paltering with the situation which arose in 724.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era] Reference

The inquisitors of the new faith would have no paltering with error.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Psychology of Revolution] Reference

But it would be paltering with the truth to say that he felt debonair.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Girl on the Boat] Reference

What need of paltering with petty fiends, when backed by His omnipotence?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alroy The Prince Of The Captivity] Reference

Let us be faithful to our convictions, and shun paltering in a double sense.    From Wordnik.com.  [Prisoner for Blasphemy] Reference

Government, however, felt that there could be no paltering with the situation.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era] Reference

But the least preliminary paltering with the spirit of commerce is a degradation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Without Prejudice] Reference

The storm was met, our Government was not a paltering inability, the loyal people.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Teachings of the Crisis] Reference

Here was no paltering of a puny nature with great feelings and a great experience.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shadows of the Stage] Reference

He was, in fact, already doing it while he was paltering with his ostensible profession.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner] Reference

I may say that now without paltering, since you are not the man I thought some day to love.    From Wordnik.com.  [Domnei A Comedy of Woman-Worship] Reference

And if there was an avoidance of a particular phrase, there was no paltering with doctrine.    From Wordnik.com.  [NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works] Reference

So he cried fiercely, 'No paltering, O Rukrooth, my mother: and if not to thy tent, then to mine!'.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Shaving of Shagpat; an Arabian entertainment — Complete] Reference

He detected paltering as readily in dignified and prosperous persons as in beggars, and with equal scorn.    From Wordnik.com.  [Excursions] Reference

Contrast with such a revelation the cave-muttered oracles of heathenism and their paltering double sense.    From Wordnik.com.  [Expositions of Holy Scripture Isaiah and Jeremiah] Reference

With this ambiguous phrase, worthy the paltering oracles of antiquity, the wretched woman was obliged to withdraw.    From Wordnik.com.  [PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete] Reference

But such paltering with plain commandments is as ruinous as sinful, and is not to be atoned for by outward worship.    From Wordnik.com.  [Expositions of Holy Scripture Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and First Book of Samuel, Second Samuel, First Kings, and Second Kings chapters I to VII] Reference

Henceforward there was to be no paltering with that dangerous spirit of independence—was it not almost Gallicanism?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cardinal Manning: Part V] Reference

In that pause, he perhaps felt some compunction at paltering with justice, which it was Rome's one virtue to administer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Expositions of Holy Scripture : St. Matthew Chaps. IX to XXVIII] Reference

She helps me to establish my mind when it thinks of too many things at once, and cannot choose for paltering and fumbling.    From Wordnik.com.  [Children of the Market Place] Reference

She wrung her hands, paltering, pleading, trying to explain, trying more desperately to postpone that settlement he was demanding.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Landloper] Reference

The time speedily arrived, however, when a persistence in this reticence would have involved me in an unworthy paltering with truth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lectures and Essays] Reference

This implies no loss of principle, no paltering with loyalty, but merely putting in practice the wisdom of the experienced statesman.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Trade Union Woman] Reference

But the paltering irresolution which he had at all points displayed urged him to redeem himself, -- else was he lower than a criminal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Idolatry A Romance] Reference

She pursued her aim for a time, sending showers of dew-drops paltering down, and knocking off a good many blossoms, but catching nothing.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hour and the Man, An Historical Romance] Reference

From all this paltering rises the suspicion that "The Way Back," like so many heroic accounts, may be gilded with a touch of the tall tale.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New Yorker] Reference

His paltering with truth is a form of casuistry of which we see altogether too much nowadays. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Philistines] Reference