paltered

But the oracle on this occasion had "paltered" with him in a double sense.

Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 1 of 8 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History 1906

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

Stories of the Border Marches Jeanie Lang

If nations attempted to solve the problem as they did at The Hague they paltered and shuffled.

Woodrow Wilson and the Doctrine of Sovereignty 1918

Obstinate and fatuous to the last, they dallied and paltered on the fatal ground, until sudden, blinding, inevitable catastrophe fell upon them from all sides at once, and swept them out of existence as a military force.

The River War An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan Winston S. Churchill 1919

How long I might have paltered, had no sound come from that room, I know not.

Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story Max Beerbohm 1914

By her negative attitude to so many points of Catholic doctrine she has paltered with the truth, She has by God's Providence retained the bare essentials of Catholicity and preserved the canonical succession of her bishops.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913

How long I might have paltered, had no sound come from that room, I know not.

Zuleika Dobson 1911

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 Arthur Cheney Train 1910

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 Morley, John 1907

Hesitant to do this thing which to him, by the strange standard of his warped code, spelled dishonour, he would and he would not; and while he paltered, was visited by an oddly vivid memory of the clear and candid eyes of Cecelia Brooke, seemed veritably to see them searching his own with their look of grieving wonder ... the eyes of one woman who had reckoned him worthy of her trust ....

The False Faces Further Adventures from the History of the Lone Wolf Louis Joseph Vance 1906