palters

The stone palters were chased away by the police and situation was brought under control.

Karbala is victory of truth over falsehood: JK CM 2009

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 Various

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 Israel Zangwill 1895

Supporting the Party that retards; the Party that preserves for the rich, palters with the poor.

The Notorious Mrs. Ebbsmith Arthur Wing Pinero 1894

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.

The Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe Stowe, Charles Edward 1889

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.

Dieux ont soif. English Anatole France 1884

Along the dark plains, on the fateful night before the battle, the sad ghosts may drift and wander, moaning and wailing in the ghastly gloom; and in that hour of haunted desolation the doomed king may feel that, after all, he is but mortal man, and that his pre-ordered destruction is close at hand and not to be averted; but Richard never deceives himself; never palters with the goodness that he has scorned.

Shadows of the Stage William Winter 1876

The writers of this school, as we have seen, agree in representing it as a series of elaborate equivocations — a story which ‘palters with us in a double sense.’

Essays and Reviews: The Education of the World, Bunsen's Biblical Researches, On the Study of the Evidences of Christianity; Seances Historiques de Gen��ve; On the Mosaic Cosmogony; Tendencies of Religious Thought in England, 1688-1750; On the Interpretation of Scripture. 1821-1902 1860

Hamlet knows only too well what 't were good to do, but he palters with everything in a double sense: he sees the grain of good there is in evil, and the grain of evil there is in good, as they exist in the world, and, finding that he can make those feather-weighted accidents balance each other, infers that there is little to choose between the essences themselves.

Among My Books First Series James Russell Lowell 1855

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 Harriet Beecher Stowe 1853