英语词汇“palter”造句子简单的方法、技巧、例句及翻译-英语例句辞典

You can equivocate, or dissemble, or palter, or mislead, or prevaricate, or fib, or perjure. Opinion | Elected Republicans are lying with open eyes. Their excuses are disgraceful. 2021-05-03T04:00:00Z

Which brings us to Thursday’s main event, a hearing before the Senate committee that has already seen two Democratic truth-seekers demonstrate a Trumpian zest for paltering with the truth. Opinion | There’s no such thing as rock bottom 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z

The researchers asked experienced negotiators who were part of an executive education course at Harvard Business School whether they engage in paltering, and 52% admitted to doing so. When telling the truth is actually dishonest 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z

But they're different, says Rogers: One is the passive failure to disclose something a negotiation counterpart doesn't know, while paltering is the active use of truthful statements to mislead. When telling the truth is actually dishonest 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z

Gino and Rogers wanted to see what people on both sides of the coin think about paltering from an ethical, and personal, standpoint. Distorting the Truth is Just as Bad as Lying, Research Shows 2016-12-19T05:00:00Z

He began his profitable paltering with America’s past with “Killing Lincoln.” Bill O’Reilly makes a mess of history 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z

They endeavored in a paltering and limping way to show that the French Government had been selfish and only selfish, and had taken every care to keep Germany properly weak and divided. Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches 2012-04-01T02:00:10.050Z

Their research found that people doing the misleading think paltering is less wrong than telling an outright lie. When telling the truth is actually dishonest 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z

But if you say "I drove it yesterday in 10-below temperatures and it drove well," even if you know it's been to the shop twice in the past month, that's paltering. When telling the truth is actually dishonest 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z

In a series of experiments involving more than 1,750 participants, the researchers determined that paltering is common and recognized as a separate, third form of deception. Distorting the Truth is Just as Bad as Lying, Research Shows 2016-12-19T05:00:00Z

Would you have me palter with the scum of the streets? The Red Cockade 2012-03-30T02:00:19.603Z

While thus to love he gave his days In loyal worship, scorning praise, How spread their lures for him in vain Thieving ambition and paltering gain! The English Novel And the Principle of its Development 2012-03-21T02:00:37.123Z

But they're different, says Rogers: One is the passive failure to disclose something that a negotiating counterpart doesn't know, while paltering is the active use of truthful statements to mislead. When telling the truth is actually dishonest 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z

Of course, classifying whether voters or negotiation counterparts will see "paltering" as ethical is vastly complicated by an election in which the usual standards for truth and political rhetoric seemed to be ignored. When telling the truth is actually dishonest 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z

To palter with reform, to listen to a word about the rights of the masses, was to his mind to parley with anarchy. Starvecrow Farm 2012-03-15T02:00:29.617Z

Yet time pressed, she could no longer palter with her love, she must be true to Clement now or false, she must suffer for him now or play the coward. Ovington's Bank 2012-02-28T03:00:25.267Z

His brain reeled, but he could not doubt it or palter over it for a moment. The Beckoning Hand and Other Stories 2012-01-10T03:00:17.100Z

"And if you don't abide by those, then there's no reason you would ever need to palter, because you could just say whatever you want." When telling the truth is actually dishonest 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z

"And if you don’t abide by those, then there’s no reason you would ever need to palter, because you could just say whatever you want." When telling the truth is actually dishonest 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z

No more paltering or taking refuge in abuse. The King of Schnorrers Grotesques and Fantasies 2011-12-28T03:00:34.587Z

I think I knew Somewhat of peace at last, with my good Lord Who loved too much, to palter with the past, Flushed with the present. The Epic of Hades In Three Books 2011-11-16T03:00:28.060Z

In Freedom's name, in her's to whom we bow, In her great name, I charge ye, palter now With no traducer of your country's cause. Love Letters of a Violinist and Other Poems 2011-10-08T02:00:23.627Z

But if you say, "I drove it yesterday in 10-below temperatures and it drove well," even if you know it's been to the shop twice in the last month, that's paltering. When telling the truth is actually dishonest 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z

The researchers asked experienced negotiators who were part of an executive education course at Harvard Business School whether they engage in paltering, and 52 percent admitted to doing so. When telling the truth is actually dishonest 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z

Is it thus you would palter with the sacred texts? The King of Schnorrers Grotesques and Fantasies 2011-12-28T03:00:34.587Z

"Do not palter with me, sirrah! but tell me what this imports." Rob of the Bowl, Vol. I (of 2) A Legend of St. Inigoe's 2011-09-11T02:00:10.443Z

I’ve paltered with compromise, and the other thing has caught me.… The Sea Lady 2011-04-22T02:00:07.843Z

Of course, classifying whether voters or negotiating counterparts will see paltering as ethical is vastly complicated by an election in which the usual standards for truth and political rhetoric seemed to be ignored. When telling the truth is actually dishonest 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z

Though not a new term -- he says it's borrowed from the field of philosophy -- Rogers and his co-authors have co-opted the concept of paltering for the field of negotiation. When telling the truth is actually dishonest 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z

For all this, he had attained to a grand degree of popularity, partly from the pretence of being on the Liberal side, but more from paltering to that fiend of false patriotism—national prejudice. The Child Wife 2011-04-21T02:00:50.050Z

There was now not an instant's paltering between them—not a word of explanation. The Deemster 2011-04-08T02:00:08.197Z

That paltering, faltering element, was not among my natural enemies. All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography The Red Leaves of a Human Heart 2011-03-31T02:00:16.763Z

For my own part I scorn to palter with words. The White Gauntlet 2011-03-30T02:00:16.130Z

Their research found that people doing the misleading think paltering is better than committing an outright lie. When telling the truth is actually dishonest 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z

The brave make danger opportunity;— The waverer, paltering with the chance sublime Dwarfs it to peril. The History of Company A, Second Illinois Cavalry 2011-03-28T02:00:23.133Z

At length he hit on a plan, and then peace seemed to come to him, a poor paltering show of peace, and he went about no longer like a beaten and broken horse. The Deemster 2011-04-08T02:00:08.197Z

To palter or hesitate is to show that she is there: to refuse to swear is equivalent to a betrayal. The Condition of Catholics Under James I. 2011-03-09T03:00:42.087Z

I choose to earn thine hate Of set will now, not palter with the mood Of mercy, and hereafter weep in blood. Medea of Euripedes 2011-03-03T03:00:47.283Z

He was held to have paltered and played a double part, to have betrayed alike his country, the fair name of his corps, and his own unsullied record. The Storm Centre 2011-03-01T03:00:39.427Z

This shows he is worthy of your esteem; and if he were to palter between the hope of all your fortune and the love of this girl, he would only deserve your contempt. Sir Brook Fossbrooke, Volume II. 2011-02-18T03:00:19.343Z

The last thing to have entered her mind would have been to attempt to mitigate her offence by lying; she would not even palter with disingenuousness. A Noble Woman The Life-Story of Edith Cavell 2011-01-27T03:00:42.663Z

He knew when to bluster and he knew when to palter. King Spruce, A Novel 2011-01-15T03:00:34.400Z

"Can the dead return to life, or is it the evil one himself who thus palters with my sight and senses?" William Shakespeare as he lived. An Historical Tale 2011-01-01T03:00:20.833Z

Do not think that you should palter with the truth either because it may not be palatable to me, or seem decorous to yourself. Ayala's Angel

She told me that Romish practices led to Romish principles, and that where they led it was easy to see; but that she for her part had other principles and didn't palter with them. The Great Miss Driver

For the very first time in his life, I suppose, Sutton found himself called to account without a chance either to smile or to sulk, to palter or to play at clever tricks. Where the Pavement Ends

But his eyes shifted, and the keen and candid gaze of the woodsmen detected his paltering. King Spruce, A Novel 2011-01-15T03:00:34.400Z

He would not consent to any paltering with justice, he would drive no bargain. The Intriguers

And day by day he paltered, doubted, put off going to the steamship office to engage passage. The Destroying Angel

You will find, and other advanced liberals and radicals who believe as I do will also find, that you are merely paltering with skin-deep measures when you stop short of socialism. The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 3 May 1906

False things, paltering things, were as abhorrent to her in her own conduct as in that of another. Rose MacLeod

“I think you’re wrong about the Indian following us,” paltered the millionaire. King Spruce, A Novel 2011-01-15T03:00:34.400Z

“Tell me the truth and don’t palter with me,” he thundered in his harsh, raucous tones. The Intriguers

He felt that he could not palter with a woman in the grasp of an agony like this. Hand and Ring

Nay, but he, this wonder, He cannot palter nor prate, Though many around him and under, With intellects trained to the curve, Distrust him in spirit and nerve Because his meaning is straight. The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume IV

Greater than England or than Earth discerned, He never paltered with his art for gain: When many a vaunted crown to dust is turned, This uncrowned king shall take his throne and reign. The Lord of Misrule And Other Poems

In his physical weakness, in the illness that was sapping his nerve, he became wistfully paltering. King Spruce, A Novel 2011-01-15T03:00:34.400Z

A weaker man would have plunged the country into anarchy, or have paltered and postponed indefinitely the true solution of a vital constitutional problem. The Winning of Popular Government A Chronicle of the Union of 1841

And yet, because he was an honest man, he had no thought of paltering with his duty. Hand and Ring

He wrote and published in the Globe a series of open letters addressed to Hincks, charging him with having paltered away his Liberal principles for the sake of French-Canadian support. The Day of Sir John Macdonald A Chronicle of the First Prime Minister of the Dominion

Why this paltering with us in a double sense? Arrows of Freethought

We dissent from the Rock however; and we venture to think that Carlyle's greatest fault was a paltering with himself on religious subjects. Flowers of Freethought (Second Series)

She would face the truth and not palter with it, now that the crisis had really come. Name and Fame A Novel

I have paltered long enough with this matter. Hand and Ring

Jean, I will tell you true: not for my love even and 167 your bonnie self will I lie or palter with my faith. Graham of Claverhouse

It was a feeble, puny grimace of love, and paltering with passion. Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges

He would never compromise or palter with the truth, either by way of suppression, or exaggeration, or casuistical refinement. War Letters of a Public-School Boy

The heroic heart Beats to the spiritual cognate, paltering not Fraudulent with truth once known. Legends of the Saxon Saints

He gave her credit for feelings so deep and for a nature so downright, that time-serving or paltering were the last faults he looked to find in her. The Wild Geese

"Maybe I got sunburned motoring," she paltered with me. The Lightning Conductor Discovers America

This paltering along with two or three drinks a day is mere cowardice. Cutting It Out How to get on the waterwagon and stay there

He is nothing—unless we palter with the meaning of words—but a clerk in the office at the stores where we pay a deposit and order goods on a form. Somehow Good

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

He often palters, with himself as well as others, in a double sense. Salem Witchcraft and Cotton Mather A Reply

But the oracle on this occasion had "paltered" with him in a double sense. Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 1 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History

The man who dares palter with such a measure is a rebel, a traitor to his party and his people.” The Clansman An Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan

Never for an instant did either of these palter with the other. A Son of Hagar A Romance of Our Time

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

So the will, which had long paltered with the temptress, at last took the fatal step, and perpetrated the crime which could never be undone. John the Baptist

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

That is only a matter of form, but it is the policy of the nation itself, and no Government that attempted to recede from or palter with that policy would last a week. Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan

Go speedily, else thou mayst stand and palter with me too long.” Hero-Myths & Legends of the British Race

Atheist is really "a thoroughly honest, unambiguous term," it admits of no paltering and of no evasion, and the need of the world, now as ever, is for clear-cut issues and unambiguous speech. Theism or Atheism The Great Alternative

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

There is no time to lose; we must tax the price of flour and guillotine every man who speculates in the food of the people, foments insurrection or palters with the foreigner. The Gods are Athirst

Here were composed and written the letters which I afterward signed, wonderful letters, which like the witches in Macbeth "paltered in a double sense." Lalage's Lovers

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

Byron was not above "paltering" with his readers "in a double sense." The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 5 Poetry

He had paltered with his honor, with his principles, with his public utterances; he had staked more than he had a right to stake on success, and he had lost, utterly and hopelessly. A History of the Four Georges and of William IV, Volume III

While Bolingbroke and his confederates were caballing and counselling, and paltering and drinking, the Whig statesmen were maturing their plans, and when the moment came for action it found them ready to act. A History of the Four Georges, Volume I

"Mr. Welles," she said, bending upon him that direct and placid regard that rendered evasion difficult and paltering impossible, "things have come to a point;" and she narrated the scene of the morning. A Philanthropist

The Act of 1793 was admittedly but a compromise measure; and beneficial as it was it was a paltering with sin. The Journal of Negro History, Volume 5, 1920

"Well, he said,—he said, let me see, what did he say?" paltered the Major. "George Washington's" Last Duel 1891

It was felt that to palter with such sacred formulas would be to renounce the most sacred obligations and to unsettle the very foundations of society. Red Cap Tales Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North

Others might falter on the way; might palter with the truth; might parlay with the enemy. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 104, March 4, 1893

Remember that these men had just broken every principle of justice in their treatment of Jesus, and now they palter over minute points of Rabbinical casuistry. Love to the Uttermost Expositions of John XIII.-XXI.

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

"Katharine has never come so very much inside my professional life," he paltered. The Brentons

He fell upon the Presbyterians when they showed a disposition to palter with the logical consequences of their own action, and scourged them unmercifully. Milton

Why do you dream and palter and stay, When every dawn, that rushes up the bay, Brings nearer, and more near, The Terror, the Discomforter, whose prey, p. 27Belovèd, we must be? Hawthorn and Lavender with Other Verses

The honour of the school was in question, and he had no right to palter with that. The Willoughby Captains

I will have no paltering with traitors, and I am more inclined to deal swiftly and summarily with you since to treason you add theft and this attempt upon a woman. The Eagle of the Empire A Story of Waterloo

The feeling was widespread that the United States ought to possess Florida, and that Spain had paltered with us long enough. John Quincy Adams American Statesmen Series

What need of paltering with petty fiends, when backed by His omnipotence? Alroy The Prince Of The Captivity

The code of honor is a delusion and a snare; it palters with the hope of true courage, and binds it at the feet of crafty and cruel skill. Something of Men I Have Known With Some Papers of a General Nature, Political, Historical, and Retrospective

The word "paltering" I reject, as vague; as to "tentative," he must show that I was tentative in my sermons; and he has eight volumes to look through. Apologia pro Vita Sua

IX Sleep on: is the time not a season For strong men to slumber and sleep, And wise men to palter with treason? A Channel Passage and Other Poems Taken from The Collected Poetical Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne—Vol VI

Here was no paltering of a puny nature with great feelings and a great experience. Shadows of the Stage

Thereby he brings into lurid relief the sin and the shame of paltering with, of putting to ignoble uses, the national character and influence. Shakespeare and the Modern Stage with Other Essays

I never mistrusted for a moment that statesmen of high repute could in so perilous an hour, upon so grave a question, palter with words in a double sense. Something of Men I Have Known With Some Papers of a General Nature, Political, Historical, and Retrospective

Why must he "palter in a double sense," and blow hot and cold in one breath? Apologia pro Vita Sua

Here, as elsewhere, there is, or there may be, "a paltering with us in a double sense." The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 6

Through all the seasons, You gave us reasons For splendid treasons To doubt and fear; Bade no foot falter, Though weaklings palter, And friendships alter From year to year. More Songs From Vagabondia

No paltering with this duty, and no delay. The Mystery of the Hasty Arrow

So I paltered with the truth, like any wretched coward of them all. The Master of Appleby A Novel Tale Concerning Itself in Part with the Great Struggle in the Two Carolinas; but Chiefly with the Adventures Therein of Two Gentlemen Who Loved One and the Same Lady

But soon another thought gets mastery o'er The first, that so to palter were unwise; E'en now the time, if memory err not, flies, When we should wait our lady-love before. The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch

This process cannot go much further, without too much paltering with obvious meanings. Practical Essays

But this also assures that his struggle against temptation shall be weak and vacillating; and that when, through his paltering with it, it culminates, he shall at once fall before it. The Ethics of George Eliot's Works

The Chorus hear it too; but they linger and palter, while each gives his grave sentence deliberately in his proper turn. Guy Livingstone; or, 'Thorough'

Yancey, speaking for Alabama, refused to palter with any plan not built on the proposition that slavery was in itself right. History of the United States

He urged the painful sense of unreality which clings to the whole transaction, and the injury to religion which is involved in thus paltering in a double sense with sacred forms and words. Prime Ministers and Some Others A Book of Reminiscences

But the paltering irresolution which he had at all points displayed urged him to redeem himself,—else was he lower than a criminal. Idolatry A Romance

There is no paltering with temptation, such as brings the sister so near to hopeless fall. The Ethics of George Eliot's Works

Don't palter any longer with the little rebel. Our Boys Entertaining Stories by Popular Authors

Do not palter with them, father—-do not, mother; and above all things, don't attempt to sacrifice the happiness of your only daughter. The Evil Eye; Or, The Black Spector The Works of William Carleton, Volume One

But I could not palter with the truth. The Child of the Dawn

To see the poles so falter I'm puzzled, friends, as much as you, For with no fiends I palter! The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood

To-day the duty of the nation seems to have been so clear that we have scant patience with the paltering policy of Congress and the Executive that permitted half a century of profitable law-breaking. American Merchant Ships and Sailors

Let these be no more believ'd That palter with us in a double sense. Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies

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

I marvel, room for such a paltering mood Should be within thy mind, now so nearly Deified with the first sense of my love. Emblems Of Love

Gentlemen must not palter in a double sense. American Eloquence, Volume 4 Studies In American Political History (1897)

Supporting the Party that retards; the Party that preserves for the rich, palters with the poor. The Notorious Mrs. Ebbsmith

They pass through the fire of death; Pant riders and steeds for breath; "Halt!" cried the Captain Then he looked up the hill; There on the summit still The "Third Company" paltered. The Feast of the Virgins and Other Poems

I am glad to say that the honourable gentleman refused to palter with his convictions. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, July 9, 1892

But though his language is calm and restrained, he never condescends to palter with slavery. Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln, 1832-1865

But the "Arab mystic" is too near sharing the belief to act his part with ease, and while he is still paltering the devoted Anael slays the Prefect. Robert Browning

Not once did he palter with his convictions or juggle with his self-respect for the sake of pelf or applause. William Lloyd Garrison The Abolitionist

Thus he paltered with his better part and presented a spectacle of one mentally sick unto death by reason of shattered purpose. Children of the Mist

For the paltering imbecility of the old Ministry they had the unconquerable courage, the iron purpose, the unwavering faith, the inextinguishable hope, of the new one. Montcalm and Wolfe

But while the English authorities quibbled, paltered, and delayed—with a little evasion, a little extra red-tapism, a little judicious procrastination—the days of Kinmont Willie were being numbered by his captors. Stories of the Border Marches

He would rather have jumped at once to Strong's pure denial, than yield an inch to the argument that a mystery was to be paltered with because it could not be explained. Esther

He is sorely tempted by the love of Palma and by the power 179offered him to give up that cause or to palter with it; yet in the end his soul resists the temptation. The Poetry Of Robert Browning

The Boanerges of the Pacific was, indeed, one of those rarely-gifted souls, souls like a Luther or a Knox, who can tolerate no contradiction, and will palter with no compromise, where the Truth is concerned. In the Wrong Paradise

He never palters with right; he enters into no truce with wrong; he admits of no compromise on such points. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862

But her stainless heart was too proud in virtue to palter and equivocate with circumstances. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 361, Supplementary Issue (1829)

We palter with truth, and we flatter our foes, And we cringe, and we crawl, and are led by the nose. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, August 1, 1891

So we must palter, falter, cringe, and shrink, And when the bully threatens, crouch or fly.— The Poems of William Watson

It palters with my conscience, blurs my thoughts Of duty, and confuses my ideas Of right and wrong. Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911: Francesca da Rimini

This was vexatious, for we were fighting the saloon, and were not seeking to palter with such frivolous and intermeddling legislation. Personal Recollections of Pardee Butler

But Burke's view of the constitution was a part of his belief with which he never paltered, and on which he surrendered his judgment to no man. Burke

But man crouches and blushes, Absconds and conceals; He creepeth and peepeth, He palters and steals; Infirm, melancholy, Jealous glancing around, An oaf, an accomplice, He poisons the ground. Poems Household Edition

She lived at Hillport, and even in that haughty suburb there was none who dared palter with an invitation from Mrs. Prockter. Helen with the High Hand (2nd ed.)

Then—a fact which should never be forgotten—the tale is carried through logically and expresses, with neither paltering nor evasion, George Eliot's sense of life's tragedy. Masters of the English Novel A Study of Principles and Personalities

Other States have paltered with the evil by means of feeble and frivolous legislation, but Kansas has grappled the monster by the throat by incorporating Prohibition into its fundamental law. Personal Recollections of Pardee Butler

To see not only immediate success imperiled, but the future paltered with by small, mean, and dishonest men, cut him to the quick. George Washington, Volume I

Virtue palters; Right is hence; Freedom praised, but hid; Funeral eloquence Rattles the coffin-lid. Poems Household Edition

Do you pretend that the President paltered with Congress in a double sense? The American Indian as Participant in the Civil War

Come what may, this trust at least should not, she mentally resolved, be betrayed or paltered with. The Experiences of a Barrister, and Confessions of an Attorney

If called on to speak of his wife's age, must he accommodate the truth to her story, or must he palter and evade? Pink and White Tyranny A Society Novel

I, give me the must again, brother, you palter. A King, and No King

I acknowledge that I spoke like a paltering knave, but in truth knew not what to say. Red Axe

What if disadvantages are to be suffered by the grocer who will not sell adulterated food, by the politician who will not palter, by the diplomatist who is ashamed to lie? The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 55, May, 1862

It is not to be a justice of Peace as you are, And palter out your time ith' penal Statutes. The Works of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher Volume 2 of 10: Introduction to the Elder Brother

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

Brother, I say you palter, the must three times together; I wear as sharp Steel as another man, and my Fox bites as deep, musted, my dear brother. A King, and No King

On the contrary, my spirits rose, and I declared my readiness to follow this paltering, knock-kneed Brother of Pity. Red Axe

Why palter o’er these mean excuses,Which tempt me to despise you? The Saint's Tragedy

It is not to be a Justice of Peace as you are, and palter out your time i'th' penal Statutes. The Works of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher Volume 2 of 10: Introduction to the Elder Brother

The world is full of these vulgar souls that palter with eternal Nature and the eternal Arts, blind to the Word who dwells among us therein. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 61, November, 1862

The Chancellor may weigh and palter—the courtier is decided, the politician is firm, and rivetted to his place in the Cabinet! The Spirit of the Age Contemporary Portraits

The inquisitors of the new faith would have no paltering with error. The Psychology of Revolution

To serve truly a reigning monarch, that I was prepared for; but to palter with sacrilege, and accept a swineherd's daughter as a God, who should receive prayers and obeisances, revolted my manhood. The Lost Continent

Bathsheba would probably have terminated the con- versation there and then by flatly forbidding the subject, had not her conscious weakness of position allured her to palter and argue in endeavours to better it. Far from the Madding Crowd

Bathsheba would probably have terminated the conversation there and then by flatly forbidding the subject, had not her conscious weakness of position allured her to palter and argue in endeavours to better it. Far from the Madding Crowd

Therefore it is an insult to the understanding, and paltering with all the rational inductions of modern science, for an educated writer, stone blind, to say a word about light. Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 07, May 14, 1870

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

But to palter with women was a lightness I had always neglected, and if I had invented would-be pretty speeches out of my clumsy inexperience, Phorenice would have seen through the fraud on the instant. The Lost Continent

It is in vain to palter with our conscience: there are not two honours—two honesties. Tales and Novels — Volume 05

He does not palter with problems of right and wrong, nor hesitate over his moral judgements; casuistry is wholly alien to his temper. Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal

My friend, thou hast gone too far to palter now. Queen Mary and Harold

You are a very brave and foolish gentleman," she said, "who chooses to face his own achievements without any paltering. Domnei A Comedy of Woman-Worship

The hour had come when Ida told herself that she must no longer dawdle along the flowery path of sin, no longer palter with fate. The Golden Calf

But how could sir Harry palter so with himself? A Rough Shaking

Was there ever such paltering, ever such base and stupid attempts to delude rational beings? Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. — Volume 1

The people are abused;—set on—this paltering Becomes not Rome: nor has Coriolanus Deserved this so dishonoured rub, laid falsely I' the plain way of his merit. The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded

Contrast with such a revelation the cave-muttered oracles of heathenism and their paltering double sense. Expositions of Holy Scripture Isaiah and Jeremiah

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

And then, again, intimate friends have almost reproached me with 'paltering with them in a double sense, keeping the word of promise to their ear, to break it to their hope.' Memoirs of James Robert Hope-Scott, Volume 2

He was sneaking and he knew it and no paltering self-assurance that he was handling a touchy situation with necessary tact helped his feelings in the least. All-Wool Morrison

He will not palter with a double sense, 'keeping His word of promise to the ear, and breaking it to the hope.' Expositions of Holy Scripture Psalms

Or has he fallen a victim to those— 'juggling fiends … That palter with us in a double sense; That keep the word of promise to the ear, And break it to the hope?' Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Kings Chapters VIII to End and Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah. Esther, Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes

To prevent this they took refuge in political religionism, and paltering with the disturbed consciences, or the pious fantasies, of a portion of the people, they organised them into religious sects. Coningsby

Visited him in spite of his wife's omniscience,—even the kind soul from Boston paltered with this plain duty. The Minister's Charge

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

The paltering fiend keeps the word of promise to the ear, and breaks it to the hope. Expositions of Holy Scripture Psalms

It actually paltered with those convictions and with the truth itself. The Great Conspiracy, Volume 1

Let us be faithful to our convictions, and shun paltering in a double sense. Prisoner for Blasphemy

And let there be no idle quacking and paltering! Chantecler Play in Four Acts

To say that I had not resented this foul deed, which seemed to me deserving of the title of the crime of the century, would be paltering with the truth. Right Ho, Jeeves

Her pitiless honesty of nature was just as inexorable in its dealing with her own soul as with others; she never paltered with, nor evaded an accusation of, her consciousness. Mercy Philbrick's Choice

Shame! to stand paltering thus, Tricked by the balancing odds; Strike! Poems

It might have implied, for example, that Victor's half-hearted and paltering distrust of Nogam had all along been only too well warranted. Red Masquerade

He paltered, shifting on his feet, his brow contracted in perplexity, as if I had propounded some intricate trifle of the higher mathematics. The Boss of Little Arcady

Now, fortune, frown and palter if thou please. A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 7

This he risked; the emergency had grown too desperate for more paltering; the lead had been abridged to thirty yards; in two minutes more it would be nothing. Alias the Lone Wolf

We cannot palter; we cannot dissemble; we cannot shelter ourselves under half-truths, and make a covenant with lies. All Saints' Day and Other Sermons

You may be cold enough to palter with fire that has burned you, Theodora. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 60, October, 1862

And, paltering villain I dare you then presume To construe, as you list, my words—and lay Your bloody meaning on them? Mary Stuart

England is the great reliance of the slave-power to- day, and next to England the faltering weakness of the North, which palters and dare not fire the great broadside for fear of hitting friends. Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe Compiled From Her Letters and Journals by Her Son Charles Edward Stowe

I am glad you do not palter with the truth. Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 02

But she had not come to palter with the truth. Betty Wales, Sophomore

But the least preliminary paltering with the spirit of commerce is a degradation. Without Prejudice

Shame! to stand paltering thus, Tricked by the balancing odds;Strike! Pike County Ballads and Other Poems

The Northern Balaam hemmed and paltered, and then—cursed the children of his loins! Bricks Without Straw

"How, or what do you mean?" said Nigel; "I will break your head, you drunken knave, if you palter with me any longer." The Fortunes of Nigel

Since murder was that man's intention, why should he palter with small details? A Tramp Abroad — Volume 02

Despite the degradation of the printed word to-day, there is something fine in this tenacious popular instinct, as there is something ignoble in all Literature which palters with it. Without Prejudice

He had permitted a lie to aid in prying his way out, and now he was paltering with evasions and making no progress except toward more dangerous involvement. When Egypt Went Broke

She wrung her hands, paltering, pleading, trying to explain, trying more desperately to postpone that settlement he was demanding. The Landloper

I will not palter and parley with the unholy thing. The Woman Who Did

She could not speak out her very thought, and to palter with solemn words was impossible. A Life's Morning

Can't you see into yourself far enough to know that you are paltering with necessity? The Emancipated

I loafed and paltered until the want of a dinner drove me into honesty. In the Year of Jubilee

The tenderness which dimmed his eyes would have changed to misery had he dreamed it possible that his own boy could palter so ignobly with the opportunities of life. The Whirlpool

Who are we that our tongues should palter, Hearts bow down, hands falter, Who are clothed as with flame from the altar, That the kings of the earth, repining, Far off, watch from afar? Songs Before Sunrise

When a man is going on my journey he does not palter with truth. Simon the Jester

Only the sense of a heart that hearkens hears, Louder than dreams that assail and doubts that palter, Sorrow that slept and that wakes ere sundawn peers. A Century of Roundels

My sword shall split thine heart With pardon if thou palter with me. Locrine: a tragedy

Then she rode back eagerly and required that thing of the King, and would listen to no paltering and no excuses. Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc — Volume 2

Aziel could no longer palter with himself, it was the truth. Elissa

We create and destroy on palter with amazing facility. The Devil's Paw

It does not palter or beat about the bush. Back Home

Henceforward, there was to be no paltering with that dangerous spirit of independence—was it not almost Gallicanism which possessed the Old Catholic families of England? Eminent Victorians

He did not foresee, till too late, that by paltering with the Presbyterians, he should put both them and himself into the power of a fiercer and more daring party. Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 1

What other Bond, Then secret Romans, that haue spoke the word, And will not palter? Julius Caesar

But I will not palter with them: I will not cite them to-day in order to serve one turn, and quibble them away to-morrow in order to serve another. Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 4

But he has paltered too long, and now the devil claims him for his own. The Lock and Key Library The most interesting stories of all nations: Real life

How long I might have paltered, had no sound come from that room, I know not. Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story

Can creeds or systems palter With what is truly great? Rhymes a la Mode

Wretch!" he said, "if you dare to palter with me, I will have your skin stripped from your living flesh! Kenilworth

Lie to her if you can; palter if you know how; try upon her the smallest honest shrewd trick, and see how it fares with you. A Lady of Quality

But, still, he had to justify himself either upon his own account or for the benefit of that posterity to conciliate which so many public men have paltered with the truth. A Vanished Arcadia: being some account of the Jesuits in Paraguay 1607-1767

"But," continued the baron anxiously, "what hope that this juggling slave of Saladin will not palter with your Grace?" The Talisman

Temptations to palter with my conscience; victory over them. Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White — Volume 1

So he walked to and fro on the heath outside the town, paltering with himself, struggling with himself, eating out his heart with eagerness, trying to believe that he was waiting for the night. The Scapegoat; a romance and a parable

Thou laggard sonorous Beer-vat, with the loud voice and timber head, is it time now to palter? The French Revolution

Their old art statesmen plied,And paltered, and evaded, and denied;Guiltless as yet, except for feeble will,And craven heart, and calculated skillIn long delays, of their great homicide. Grass of Parnassus

Loving you, he should, in the name of common sense, be doing something that would give him the right to marry, instead of paltering around with those stories of his and with childish dreams. Martin Eden

And I would warn you, sir, that if you palter with the truth in such little matters you may darken your more important statements with suspicion. The Night-Born

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例句	palter You can equivocate, or dissemble, or palter, or mislead, or prevaricate, or fib, or perjure. Opinion \| Elected Republicans are lying with open eyes. Their excuses are disgraceful. 2021-05-03T04:00:00Z Which brings us to Thursday’s main event, a hearing before the Senate committee that has already seen two Democratic truth-seekers demonstrate a Trumpian zest for paltering with the truth. Opinion \| There’s no such thing as rock bottom 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z The researchers asked experienced negotiators who were part of an executive education course at Harvard Business School whether they engage in paltering, and 52% admitted to doing so. When telling the truth is actually dishonest 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z But they're different, says Rogers: One is the passive failure to disclose something a negotiation counterpart doesn't know, while paltering is the active use of truthful statements to mislead. When telling the truth is actually dishonest 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z Gino and Rogers wanted to see what people on both sides of the coin think about paltering from an ethical, and personal, standpoint. Distorting the Truth is Just as Bad as Lying, Research Shows 2016-12-19T05:00:00Z He began his profitable paltering with America’s past with “Killing Lincoln.” Bill O’Reilly makes a mess of history 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z They endeavored in a paltering and limping way to show that the French Government had been selfish and only selfish, and had taken every care to keep Germany properly weak and divided. Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches 2012-04-01T02:00:10.050Z Their research found that people doing the misleading think paltering is less wrong than telling an outright lie. When telling the truth is actually dishonest 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z But if you say "I drove it yesterday in 10-below temperatures and it drove well," even if you know it's been to the shop twice in the past month, that's paltering. When telling the truth is actually dishonest 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z In a series of experiments involving more than 1,750 participants, the researchers determined that paltering is common and recognized as a separate, third form of deception. Distorting the Truth is Just as Bad as Lying, Research Shows 2016-12-19T05:00:00Z Would you have me palter with the scum of the streets? The Red Cockade 2012-03-30T02:00:19.603Z While thus to love he gave his days In loyal worship, scorning praise, How spread their lures for him in vain Thieving ambition and paltering gain! The English Novel And the Principle of its Development 2012-03-21T02:00:37.123Z But they're different, says Rogers: One is the passive failure to disclose something that a negotiating counterpart doesn't know, while paltering is the active use of truthful statements to mislead. When telling the truth is actually dishonest 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z Of course, classifying whether voters or negotiation counterparts will see "paltering" as ethical is vastly complicated by an election in which the usual standards for truth and political rhetoric seemed to be ignored. When telling the truth is actually dishonest 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z To palter with reform, to listen to a word about the rights of the masses, was to his mind to parley with anarchy. Starvecrow Farm 2012-03-15T02:00:29.617Z Yet time pressed, she could no longer palter with her love, she must be true to Clement now or false, she must suffer for him now or play the coward. Ovington's Bank 2012-02-28T03:00:25.267Z His brain reeled, but he could not doubt it or palter over it for a moment. The Beckoning Hand and Other Stories 2012-01-10T03:00:17.100Z "And if you don't abide by those, then there's no reason you would ever need to palter, because you could just say whatever you want." When telling the truth is actually dishonest 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z "And if you don’t abide by those, then there’s no reason you would ever need to palter, because you could just say whatever you want." When telling the truth is actually dishonest 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z No more paltering or taking refuge in abuse. The King of Schnorrers Grotesques and Fantasies 2011-12-28T03:00:34.587Z I think I knew Somewhat of peace at last, with my good Lord Who loved too much, to palter with the past, Flushed with the present. The Epic of Hades In Three Books 2011-11-16T03:00:28.060Z In Freedom's name, in her's to whom we bow, In her great name, I charge ye, palter now With no traducer of your country's cause. Love Letters of a Violinist and Other Poems 2011-10-08T02:00:23.627Z But if you say, "I drove it yesterday in 10-below temperatures and it drove well," even if you know it's been to the shop twice in the last month, that's paltering. When telling the truth is actually dishonest 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z The researchers asked experienced negotiators who were part of an executive education course at Harvard Business School whether they engage in paltering, and 52 percent admitted to doing so. When telling the truth is actually dishonest 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z Is it thus you would palter with the sacred texts? The King of Schnorrers Grotesques and Fantasies 2011-12-28T03:00:34.587Z "Do not palter with me, sirrah! but tell me what this imports." Rob of the Bowl, Vol. I (of 2) A Legend of St. Inigoe's 2011-09-11T02:00:10.443Z I’ve paltered with compromise, and the other thing has caught me.… The Sea Lady 2011-04-22T02:00:07.843Z Of course, classifying whether voters or negotiating counterparts will see paltering as ethical is vastly complicated by an election in which the usual standards for truth and political rhetoric seemed to be ignored. When telling the truth is actually dishonest 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z Though not a new term -- he says it's borrowed from the field of philosophy -- Rogers and his co-authors have co-opted the concept of paltering for the field of negotiation. When telling the truth is actually dishonest 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z For all this, he had attained to a grand degree of popularity, partly from the pretence of being on the Liberal side, but more from paltering to that fiend of false patriotism—national prejudice. The Child Wife 2011-04-21T02:00:50.050Z There was now not an instant's paltering between them—not a word of explanation. The Deemster 2011-04-08T02:00:08.197Z That paltering, faltering element, was not among my natural enemies. All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography The Red Leaves of a Human Heart 2011-03-31T02:00:16.763Z For my own part I scorn to palter with words. The White Gauntlet 2011-03-30T02:00:16.130Z Their research found that people doing the misleading think paltering is better than committing an outright lie. When telling the truth is actually dishonest 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z The brave make danger opportunity;— The waverer, paltering with the chance sublime Dwarfs it to peril. The History of Company A, Second Illinois Cavalry 2011-03-28T02:00:23.133Z At length he hit on a plan, and then peace seemed to come to him, a poor paltering show of peace, and he went about no longer like a beaten and broken horse. The Deemster 2011-04-08T02:00:08.197Z To palter or hesitate is to show that she is there: to refuse to swear is equivalent to a betrayal. The Condition of Catholics Under James I. 2011-03-09T03:00:42.087Z I choose to earn thine hate Of set will now, not palter with the mood Of mercy, and hereafter weep in blood. Medea of Euripedes 2011-03-03T03:00:47.283Z He was held to have paltered and played a double part, to have betrayed alike his country, the fair name of his corps, and his own unsullied record. The Storm Centre 2011-03-01T03:00:39.427Z This shows he is worthy of your esteem; and if he were to palter between the hope of all your fortune and the love of this girl, he would only deserve your contempt. Sir Brook Fossbrooke, Volume II. 2011-02-18T03:00:19.343Z The last thing to have entered her mind would have been to attempt to mitigate her offence by lying; she would not even palter with disingenuousness. A Noble Woman The Life-Story of Edith Cavell 2011-01-27T03:00:42.663Z He knew when to bluster and he knew when to palter. King Spruce, A Novel 2011-01-15T03:00:34.400Z "Can the dead return to life, or is it the evil one himself who thus palters with my sight and senses?" William Shakespeare as he lived. An Historical Tale 2011-01-01T03:00:20.833Z Do not think that you should palter with the truth either because it may not be palatable to me, or seem decorous to yourself. Ayala's Angel She told me that Romish practices led to Romish principles, and that where they led it was easy to see; but that she for her part had other principles and didn't palter with them. The Great Miss Driver For the very first time in his life, I suppose, Sutton found himself called to account without a chance either to smile or to sulk, to palter or to play at clever tricks. Where the Pavement Ends But his eyes shifted, and the keen and candid gaze of the woodsmen detected his paltering. King Spruce, A Novel 2011-01-15T03:00:34.400Z He would not consent to any paltering with justice, he would drive no bargain. The Intriguers And day by day he paltered, doubted, put off going to the steamship office to engage passage. The Destroying Angel You will find, and other advanced liberals and radicals who believe as I do will also find, that you are merely paltering with skin-deep measures when you stop short of socialism. The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 3 May 1906 False things, paltering things, were as abhorrent to her in her own conduct as in that of another. Rose MacLeod “I think you’re wrong about the Indian following us,” paltered the millionaire. King Spruce, A Novel 2011-01-15T03:00:34.400Z “Tell me the truth and don’t palter with me,” he thundered in his harsh, raucous tones. The Intriguers He felt that he could not palter with a woman in the grasp of an agony like this. Hand and Ring Nay, but he, this wonder, He cannot palter nor prate, Though many around him and under, With intellects trained to the curve, Distrust him in spirit and nerve Because his meaning is straight. The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume IV Greater than England or than Earth discerned, He never paltered with his art for gain: When many a vaunted crown to dust is turned, This uncrowned king shall take his throne and reign. The Lord of Misrule And Other Poems In his physical weakness, in the illness that was sapping his nerve, he became wistfully paltering. King Spruce, A Novel 2011-01-15T03:00:34.400Z A weaker man would have plunged the country into anarchy, or have paltered and postponed indefinitely the true solution of a vital constitutional problem. The Winning of Popular Government A Chronicle of the Union of 1841 And yet, because he was an honest man, he had no thought of paltering with his duty. Hand and Ring He wrote and published in the Globe a series of open letters addressed to Hincks, charging him with having paltered away his Liberal principles for the sake of French-Canadian support. The Day of Sir John Macdonald A Chronicle of the First Prime Minister of the Dominion Why this paltering with us in a double sense? Arrows of Freethought We dissent from the Rock however; and we venture to think that Carlyle's greatest fault was a paltering with himself on religious subjects. Flowers of Freethought (Second Series) She would face the truth and not palter with it, now that the crisis had really come. Name and Fame A Novel I have paltered long enough with this matter. Hand and Ring Jean, I will tell you true: not for my love even and 167 your bonnie self will I lie or palter with my faith. Graham of Claverhouse It was a feeble, puny grimace of love, and paltering with passion. Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges He would never compromise or palter with the truth, either by way of suppression, or exaggeration, or casuistical refinement. War Letters of a Public-School Boy The heroic heart Beats to the spiritual cognate, paltering not Fraudulent with truth once known. Legends of the Saxon Saints He gave her credit for feelings so deep and for a nature so downright, that time-serving or paltering were the last faults he looked to find in her. The Wild Geese "Maybe I got sunburned motoring," she paltered with me. The Lightning Conductor Discovers America This paltering along with two or three drinks a day is mere cowardice. Cutting It Out How to get on the waterwagon and stay there He is nothing—unless we palter with the meaning of words—but a clerk in the office at the stores where we pay a deposit and order goods on a form. Somehow Good The Government, however, felt that there could be no paltering with the situation. A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era He often palters, with himself as well as others, in a double sense. Salem Witchcraft and Cotton Mather A Reply But the oracle on this occasion had "paltered" with him in a double sense. Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 1 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History The man who dares palter with such a measure is a rebel, a traitor to his party and his people.” The Clansman An Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan Never for an instant did either of these palter with the other. A Son of Hagar A Romance of Our Time But there was no paltering with the situation which arose in 724. A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era So the will, which had long paltered with the temptress, at last took the fatal step, and perpetrated the crime which could never be undone. John the Baptist It looked like paltering and peddling, like sale and barter. The Drama Of Three Hundred & Sixty-Five Days Scenes In The Great War That is only a matter of form, but it is the policy of the nation itself, and no Government that attempted to recede from or palter with that policy would last a week. Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan Go speedily, else thou mayst stand and palter with me too long.” Hero-Myths & Legends of the British Race Atheist is really "a thoroughly honest, unambiguous term," it admits of no paltering and of no evasion, and the need of the world, now as ever, is for clear-cut issues and unambiguous speech. Theism or Atheism The Great Alternative She pursued her aim for a time, sending showers of dew-drops paltering down, and knocking off a good many blossoms, but catching nothing. The Hour and the Man, An Historical Romance There is no time to lose; we must tax the price of flour and guillotine every man who speculates in the food of the people, foments insurrection or palters with the foreigner. The Gods are Athirst Here were composed and written the letters which I afterward signed, wonderful letters, which like the witches in Macbeth "paltered in a double sense." Lalage's Lovers The Parthian glance of contempt that reached me through her tears showed that the lady understood and despised my paltering. Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War Byron was not above "paltering" with his readers "in a double sense." The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 5 Poetry He had paltered with his honor, with his principles, with his public utterances; he had staked more than he had a right to stake on success, and he had lost, utterly and hopelessly. A History of the Four Georges and of William IV, Volume III While Bolingbroke and his confederates were caballing and counselling, and paltering and drinking, the Whig statesmen were maturing their plans, and when the moment came for action it found them ready to act. A History of the Four Georges, Volume I "Mr. Welles," she said, bending upon him that direct and placid regard that rendered evasion difficult and paltering impossible, "things have come to a point;" and she narrated the scene of the morning. A Philanthropist The Act of 1793 was admittedly but a compromise measure; and beneficial as it was it was a paltering with sin. The Journal of Negro History, Volume 5, 1920 "Well, he said,—he said, let me see, what did he say?" paltered the Major. "George Washington's" Last Duel 1891 It was felt that to palter with such sacred formulas would be to renounce the most sacred obligations and to unsettle the very foundations of society. Red Cap Tales Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North Others might falter on the way; might palter with the truth; might parlay with the enemy. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 104, March 4, 1893 Remember that these men had just broken every principle of justice in their treatment of Jesus, and now they palter over minute points of Rabbinical casuistry. Love to the Uttermost Expositions of John XIII.-XXI. The paltering of the king called forth the patriotism of the people. Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries "Katharine has never come so very much inside my professional life," he paltered. The Brentons He fell upon the Presbyterians when they showed a disposition to palter with the logical consequences of their own action, and scourged them unmercifully. Milton Why do you dream and palter and stay, When every dawn, that rushes up the bay, Brings nearer, and more near, The Terror, the Discomforter, whose prey, p. 27Belovèd, we must be? Hawthorn and Lavender with Other Verses The honour of the school was in question, and he had no right to palter with that. The Willoughby Captains I will have no paltering with traitors, and I am more inclined to deal swiftly and summarily with you since to treason you add theft and this attempt upon a woman. The Eagle of the Empire A Story of Waterloo The feeling was widespread that the United States ought to possess Florida, and that Spain had paltered with us long enough. John Quincy Adams American Statesmen Series What need of paltering with petty fiends, when backed by His omnipotence? Alroy The Prince Of The Captivity The code of honor is a delusion and a snare; it palters with the hope of true courage, and binds it at the feet of crafty and cruel skill. Something of Men I Have Known With Some Papers of a General Nature, Political, Historical, and Retrospective The word "paltering" I reject, as vague; as to "tentative," he must show that I was tentative in my sermons; and he has eight volumes to look through. Apologia pro Vita Sua IX Sleep on: is the time not a season For strong men to slumber and sleep, And wise men to palter with treason? A Channel Passage and Other Poems Taken from The Collected Poetical Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne—Vol VI Here was no paltering of a puny nature with great feelings and a great experience. Shadows of the Stage Thereby he brings into lurid relief the sin and the shame of paltering with, of putting to ignoble uses, the national character and influence. Shakespeare and the Modern Stage with Other Essays I never mistrusted for a moment that statesmen of high repute could in so perilous an hour, upon so grave a question, palter with words in a double sense. Something of Men I Have Known With Some Papers of a General Nature, Political, Historical, and Retrospective Why must he "palter in a double sense," and blow hot and cold in one breath? Apologia pro Vita Sua Here, as elsewhere, there is, or there may be, "a paltering with us in a double sense." The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 6 Through all the seasons, You gave us reasons For splendid treasons To doubt and fear; Bade no foot falter, Though weaklings palter, And friendships alter From year to year. More Songs From Vagabondia No paltering with this duty, and no delay. The Mystery of the Hasty Arrow So I paltered with the truth, like any wretched coward of them all. The Master of Appleby A Novel Tale Concerning Itself in Part with the Great Struggle in the Two Carolinas; but Chiefly with the Adventures Therein of Two Gentlemen Who Loved One and the Same Lady But soon another thought gets mastery o'er The first, that so to palter were unwise; E'en now the time, if memory err not, flies, When we should wait our lady-love before. The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch This process cannot go much further, without too much paltering with obvious meanings. Practical Essays But this also assures that his struggle against temptation shall be weak and vacillating; and that when, through his paltering with it, it culminates, he shall at once fall before it. The Ethics of George Eliot's Works The Chorus hear it too; but they linger and palter, while each gives his grave sentence deliberately in his proper turn. Guy Livingstone; or, 'Thorough' Yancey, speaking for Alabama, refused to palter with any plan not built on the proposition that slavery was in itself right. History of the United States He urged the painful sense of unreality which clings to the whole transaction, and the injury to religion which is involved in thus paltering in a double sense with sacred forms and words. Prime Ministers and Some Others A Book of Reminiscences But the paltering irresolution which he had at all points displayed urged him to redeem himself,—else was he lower than a criminal. Idolatry A Romance There is no paltering with temptation, such as brings the sister so near to hopeless fall. The Ethics of George Eliot's Works Don't palter any longer with the little rebel. Our Boys Entertaining Stories by Popular Authors Do not palter with them, father—-do not, mother; and above all things, don't attempt to sacrifice the happiness of your only daughter. The Evil Eye; Or, The Black Spector The Works of William Carleton, Volume One But I could not palter with the truth. The Child of the Dawn To see the poles so falter I'm puzzled, friends, as much as you, For with no fiends I palter! The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood To-day the duty of the nation seems to have been so clear that we have scant patience with the paltering policy of Congress and the Executive that permitted half a century of profitable law-breaking. American Merchant Ships and Sailors Let these be no more believ'd That palter with us in a double sense. Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies She helps me to establish my mind when it thinks of too many things at once, and cannot choose for paltering and fumbling. Children of the Market Place I marvel, room for such a paltering mood Should be within thy mind, now so nearly Deified with the first sense of my love. Emblems Of Love Gentlemen must not palter in a double sense. American Eloquence, Volume 4 Studies In American Political History (1897) Supporting the Party that retards; the Party that preserves for the rich, palters with the poor. The Notorious Mrs. Ebbsmith They pass through the fire of death; Pant riders and steeds for breath; "Halt!" cried the Captain Then he looked up the hill; There on the summit still The "Third Company" paltered. The Feast of the Virgins and Other Poems I am glad to say that the honourable gentleman refused to palter with his convictions. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, July 9, 1892 But though his language is calm and restrained, he never condescends to palter with slavery. Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln, 1832-1865 But the "Arab mystic" is too near sharing the belief to act his part with ease, and while he is still paltering the devoted Anael slays the Prefect. Robert Browning Not once did he palter with his convictions or juggle with his self-respect for the sake of pelf or applause. William Lloyd Garrison The Abolitionist Thus he paltered with his better part and presented a spectacle of one mentally sick unto death by reason of shattered purpose. Children of the Mist For the paltering imbecility of the old Ministry they had the unconquerable courage, the iron purpose, the unwavering faith, the inextinguishable hope, of the new one. Montcalm and Wolfe But while the English authorities quibbled, paltered, and delayed—with a little evasion, a little extra red-tapism, a little judicious procrastination—the days of Kinmont Willie were being numbered by his captors. Stories of the Border Marches He would rather have jumped at once to Strong's pure denial, than yield an inch to the argument that a mystery was to be paltered with because it could not be explained. Esther He is sorely tempted by the love of Palma and by the power 179offered him to give up that cause or to palter with it; yet in the end his soul resists the temptation. The Poetry Of Robert Browning The Boanerges of the Pacific was, indeed, one of those rarely-gifted souls, souls like a Luther or a Knox, who can tolerate no contradiction, and will palter with no compromise, where the Truth is concerned. In the Wrong Paradise He never palters with right; he enters into no truce with wrong; he admits of no compromise on such points. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862 But her stainless heart was too proud in virtue to palter and equivocate with circumstances. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 361, Supplementary Issue (1829) We palter with truth, and we flatter our foes, And we cringe, and we crawl, and are led by the nose. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, August 1, 1891 So we must palter, falter, cringe, and shrink, And when the bully threatens, crouch or fly.— The Poems of William Watson It palters with my conscience, blurs my thoughts Of duty, and confuses my ideas Of right and wrong. Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911: Francesca da Rimini This was vexatious, for we were fighting the saloon, and were not seeking to palter with such frivolous and intermeddling legislation. Personal Recollections of Pardee Butler But Burke's view of the constitution was a part of his belief with which he never paltered, and on which he surrendered his judgment to no man. Burke But man crouches and blushes, Absconds and conceals; He creepeth and peepeth, He palters and steals; Infirm, melancholy, Jealous glancing around, An oaf, an accomplice, He poisons the ground. Poems Household Edition She lived at Hillport, and even in that haughty suburb there was none who dared palter with an invitation from Mrs. Prockter. Helen with the High Hand (2nd ed.) Then—a fact which should never be forgotten—the tale is carried through logically and expresses, with neither paltering nor evasion, George Eliot's sense of life's tragedy. Masters of the English Novel A Study of Principles and Personalities Other States have paltered with the evil by means of feeble and frivolous legislation, but Kansas has grappled the monster by the throat by incorporating Prohibition into its fundamental law. Personal Recollections of Pardee Butler To see not only immediate success imperiled, but the future paltered with by small, mean, and dishonest men, cut him to the quick. George Washington, Volume I Virtue palters; Right is hence; Freedom praised, but hid; Funeral eloquence Rattles the coffin-lid. Poems Household Edition Do you pretend that the President paltered with Congress in a double sense? The American Indian as Participant in the Civil War Come what may, this trust at least should not, she mentally resolved, be betrayed or paltered with. The Experiences of a Barrister, and Confessions of an Attorney If called on to speak of his wife's age, must he accommodate the truth to her story, or must he palter and evade? Pink and White Tyranny A Society Novel I, give me the must again, brother, you palter. A King, and No King I acknowledge that I spoke like a paltering knave, but in truth knew not what to say. Red Axe What if disadvantages are to be suffered by the grocer who will not sell adulterated food, by the politician who will not palter, by the diplomatist who is ashamed to lie? The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 55, May, 1862 It is not to be a justice of Peace as you are, And palter out your time ith' penal Statutes. The Works of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher Volume 2 of 10: Introduction to the Elder Brother This implies no loss of principle, no paltering with loyalty, but merely putting in practice the wisdom of the experienced statesman. The Trade Union Woman Brother, I say you palter, the must three times together; I wear as sharp Steel as another man, and my Fox bites as deep, musted, my dear brother. A King, and No King On the contrary, my spirits rose, and I declared my readiness to follow this paltering, knock-kneed Brother of Pity. Red Axe Why palter o’er these mean excuses,Which tempt me to despise you? The Saint's Tragedy It is not to be a Justice of Peace as you are, and palter out your time i'th' penal Statutes. The Works of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher Volume 2 of 10: Introduction to the Elder Brother The world is full of these vulgar souls that palter with eternal Nature and the eternal Arts, blind to the Word who dwells among us therein. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 61, November, 1862 The Chancellor may weigh and palter—the courtier is decided, the politician is firm, and rivetted to his place in the Cabinet! The Spirit of the Age Contemporary Portraits The inquisitors of the new faith would have no paltering with error. The Psychology of Revolution To serve truly a reigning monarch, that I was prepared for; but to palter with sacrilege, and accept a swineherd's daughter as a God, who should receive prayers and obeisances, revolted my manhood. The Lost Continent Bathsheba would probably have terminated the con- versation there and then by flatly forbidding the subject, had not her conscious weakness of position allured her to palter and argue in endeavours to better it. Far from the Madding Crowd Bathsheba would probably have terminated the conversation there and then by flatly forbidding the subject, had not her conscious weakness of position allured her to palter and argue in endeavours to better it. Far from the Madding Crowd Therefore it is an insult to the understanding, and paltering with all the rational inductions of modern science, for an educated writer, stone blind, to say a word about light. Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 07, May 14, 1870 I may say that now without paltering, since you are not the man I thought some day to love. Domnei A Comedy of Woman-Worship But to palter with women was a lightness I had always neglected, and if I had invented would-be pretty speeches out of my clumsy inexperience, Phorenice would have seen through the fraud on the instant. The Lost Continent It is in vain to palter with our conscience: there are not two honours—two honesties. Tales and Novels — Volume 05 He does not palter with problems of right and wrong, nor hesitate over his moral judgements; casuistry is wholly alien to his temper. Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal My friend, thou hast gone too far to palter now. Queen Mary and Harold You are a very brave and foolish gentleman," she said, "who chooses to face his own achievements without any paltering. Domnei A Comedy of Woman-Worship The hour had come when Ida told herself that she must no longer dawdle along the flowery path of sin, no longer palter with fate. The Golden Calf But how could sir Harry palter so with himself? A Rough Shaking Was there ever such paltering, ever such base and stupid attempts to delude rational beings? Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. — Volume 1 The people are abused;—set on—this paltering Becomes not Rome: nor has Coriolanus Deserved this so dishonoured rub, laid falsely I' the plain way of his merit. The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded Contrast with such a revelation the cave-muttered oracles of heathenism and their paltering double sense. Expositions of Holy Scripture Isaiah and Jeremiah But such paltering with plain commandments is as ruinous as sinful, and is not to be atoned for by outward worship. Expositions of Holy Scripture Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and First Book of Samuel, Second Samuel, First Kings, and Second Kings chapters I to VII And then, again, intimate friends have almost reproached me with 'paltering with them in a double sense, keeping the word of promise to their ear, to break it to their hope.' Memoirs of James Robert Hope-Scott, Volume 2 He was sneaking and he knew it and no paltering self-assurance that he was handling a touchy situation with necessary tact helped his feelings in the least. All-Wool Morrison He will not palter with a double sense, 'keeping His word of promise to the ear, and breaking it to the hope.' Expositions of Holy Scripture Psalms Or has he fallen a victim to those— 'juggling fiends … That palter with us in a double sense; That keep the word of promise to the ear, And break it to the hope?' Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Kings Chapters VIII to End and Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah. Esther, Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes To prevent this they took refuge in political religionism, and paltering with the disturbed consciences, or the pious fantasies, of a portion of the people, they organised them into religious sects. Coningsby Visited him in spite of his wife's omniscience,—even the kind soul from Boston paltered with this plain duty. The Minister's Charge In that pause, he perhaps felt some compunction at paltering with justice, which it was Rome's one virtue to administer. Expositions of Holy Scripture : St. Matthew Chaps. IX to XXVIII The paltering fiend keeps the word of promise to the ear, and breaks it to the hope. Expositions of Holy Scripture Psalms It actually paltered with those convictions and with the truth itself. The Great Conspiracy, Volume 1 Let us be faithful to our convictions, and shun paltering in a double sense. Prisoner for Blasphemy And let there be no idle quacking and paltering! Chantecler Play in Four Acts To say that I had not resented this foul deed, which seemed to me deserving of the title of the crime of the century, would be paltering with the truth. Right Ho, Jeeves Her pitiless honesty of nature was just as inexorable in its dealing with her own soul as with others; she never paltered with, nor evaded an accusation of, her consciousness. Mercy Philbrick's Choice Shame! to stand paltering thus, Tricked by the balancing odds; Strike! Poems It might have implied, for example, that Victor's half-hearted and paltering distrust of Nogam had all along been only too well warranted. Red Masquerade He paltered, shifting on his feet, his brow contracted in perplexity, as if I had propounded some intricate trifle of the higher mathematics. The Boss of Little Arcady Now, fortune, frown and palter if thou please. A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 7 This he risked; the emergency had grown too desperate for more paltering; the lead had been abridged to thirty yards; in two minutes more it would be nothing. Alias the Lone Wolf We cannot palter; we cannot dissemble; we cannot shelter ourselves under half-truths, and make a covenant with lies. All Saints' Day and Other Sermons You may be cold enough to palter with fire that has burned you, Theodora. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 60, October, 1862 And, paltering villain I dare you then presume To construe, as you list, my words—and lay Your bloody meaning on them? Mary Stuart England is the great reliance of the slave-power to- day, and next to England the faltering weakness of the North, which palters and dare not fire the great broadside for fear of hitting friends. Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe Compiled From Her Letters and Journals by Her Son Charles Edward Stowe I am glad you do not palter with the truth. Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 02 But she had not come to palter with the truth. Betty Wales, Sophomore But the least preliminary paltering with the spirit of commerce is a degradation. Without Prejudice Shame! to stand paltering thus, Tricked by the balancing odds;Strike! Pike County Ballads and Other Poems The Northern Balaam hemmed and paltered, and then—cursed the children of his loins! Bricks Without Straw "How, or what do you mean?" said Nigel; "I will break your head, you drunken knave, if you palter with me any longer." The Fortunes of Nigel Since murder was that man's intention, why should he palter with small details? A Tramp Abroad — Volume 02 Despite the degradation of the printed word to-day, there is something fine in this tenacious popular instinct, as there is something ignoble in all Literature which palters with it. Without Prejudice He had permitted a lie to aid in prying his way out, and now he was paltering with evasions and making no progress except toward more dangerous involvement. When Egypt Went Broke She wrung her hands, paltering, pleading, trying to explain, trying more desperately to postpone that settlement he was demanding. The Landloper I will not palter and parley with the unholy thing. The Woman Who Did She could not speak out her very thought, and to palter with solemn words was impossible. A Life's Morning Can't you see into yourself far enough to know that you are paltering with necessity? The Emancipated I loafed and paltered until the want of a dinner drove me into honesty. In the Year of Jubilee The tenderness which dimmed his eyes would have changed to misery had he dreamed it possible that his own boy could palter so ignobly with the opportunities of life. The Whirlpool Who are we that our tongues should palter, Hearts bow down, hands falter, Who are clothed as with flame from the altar, That the kings of the earth, repining, Far off, watch from afar? Songs Before Sunrise When a man is going on my journey he does not palter with truth. Simon the Jester Only the sense of a heart that hearkens hears, Louder than dreams that assail and doubts that palter, Sorrow that slept and that wakes ere sundawn peers. A Century of Roundels My sword shall split thine heart With pardon if thou palter with me. Locrine: a tragedy Then she rode back eagerly and required that thing of the King, and would listen to no paltering and no excuses. Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc — Volume 2 Aziel could no longer palter with himself, it was the truth. Elissa We create and destroy on palter with amazing facility. The Devil's Paw It does not palter or beat about the bush. Back Home Henceforward, there was to be no paltering with that dangerous spirit of independence—was it not almost Gallicanism which possessed the Old Catholic families of England? Eminent Victorians He did not foresee, till too late, that by paltering with the Presbyterians, he should put both them and himself into the power of a fiercer and more daring party. Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 1 What other Bond, Then secret Romans, that haue spoke the word, And will not palter? Julius Caesar But I will not palter with them: I will not cite them to-day in order to serve one turn, and quibble them away to-morrow in order to serve another. Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 4 But he has paltered too long, and now the devil claims him for his own. The Lock and Key Library The most interesting stories of all nations: Real life How long I might have paltered, had no sound come from that room, I know not. Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story Can creeds or systems palter With what is truly great? Rhymes a la Mode Wretch!" he said, "if you dare to palter with me, I will have your skin stripped from your living flesh! Kenilworth Lie to her if you can; palter if you know how; try upon her the smallest honest shrewd trick, and see how it fares with you. A Lady of Quality But, still, he had to justify himself either upon his own account or for the benefit of that posterity to conciliate which so many public men have paltered with the truth. A Vanished Arcadia: being some account of the Jesuits in Paraguay 1607-1767 "But," continued the baron anxiously, "what hope that this juggling slave of Saladin will not palter with your Grace?" The Talisman Temptations to palter with my conscience; victory over them. Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White — Volume 1 So he walked to and fro on the heath outside the town, paltering with himself, struggling with himself, eating out his heart with eagerness, trying to believe that he was waiting for the night. The Scapegoat; a romance and a parable Thou laggard sonorous Beer-vat, with the loud voice and timber head, is it time now to palter? The French Revolution Their old art statesmen plied,And paltered, and evaded, and denied;Guiltless as yet, except for feeble will,And craven heart, and calculated skillIn long delays, of their great homicide. Grass of Parnassus Loving you, he should, in the name of common sense, be doing something that would give him the right to marry, instead of paltering around with those stories of his and with childish dreams. Martin Eden And I would warn you, sir, that if you palter with the truth in such little matters you may darken your more important statements with suspicion. The Night-Born
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