Is this space of our couple of hours too dimensional for you, temporiser?. From Wordnik.com. [Finnegans Wake] Reference
‘Que la trahison se taise! car c’est trahir que de conseiller de temporiser avec Buonaparte. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Charlotte Bronte] Reference
He is prudent by nature, and a temporiser from necessity. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Girondists, Volume I Personal Memoirs of the Patriots of the French Revolution] Reference
This threat had no effect on Kutusoff; he persisted in remaining inactive; either because to the frost of age was superadded that of winter, and that in his shattered frame his mind was depressed by the sight of so many ruins; or that, from another effect of old age, a person becomes prudent when he has scarcely any thing to risk, and a temporiser when he has no more time to lose. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Expedition to Russia Undertaken by the Emperor Napoleon in the Year 1812] Reference
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