The poem may be deemed as equivocal as the poet; the text has been impeached; interpolations and omissions are acknowledged by the learned in Saxon lore.
His equivocal personages are not always recognised in this travesty of their Roman masquerade.
Some become equivocal by changing their signification, and some fall obsolete, one cannot tell why, for custom or caprice arbitrate, guided by no law, and often with an unmusical ear.
Some ludicrous misconceptions ofequivocal terms or some ridiculous phraseology have been recorded in other counties, among the judges and the bar at a county assize.
Through him she exhibited the most equivocal and most contradictory conduct.
He was too unfamiliar with the annals and practices of such criminals, to gather this fact from the equivocal words, and half-spoken sentences, and sly looks of the confederates.
No other change was made by his appearance, than a renewal of the threatening gestures, with, if possible, a still less equivocal display of their remorseless intentions.
Abiram, alone, formed a solitary exception to this state ofequivocal repose.
When this equivocal species of amity was established between the warrior of the prairies and the experienced old trapper, the latter proceeded to give his directions to Paul, concerning the arrangements of the contemplated halt.
The old man, in his turn, perceived the necessity of being more explicit, and of securing the slight and equivocal advantage he had already obtained.
There would be no gentle knock, followed by her appearance with her equivocal stare and the intolerable: "Can I do anything for you, ma'am?
But I don't think so; I do not even think that there was in what he did a conscious and lofty confidence in himself, a particularly pronounced sense of power which leads men so often into impossible or equivocal situations.
The great patriot, as usual, related his lubricous, equivocal anecdotes without troubling himself very much as to whether ladies were present or not.
You do not, but your surroundings do; and this Kárpáthy woman has a very equivocal reputation.
Most of the suggestions I venture to put forward are sufficiently documented by hard facts, but some are necessarily based upon "hints and equivocal survivals".
He met the Spiritualists and hated them, with all the hatred of the middle class for borderlands and equivocal positions and playing with fire.
At length the equivocal and exhausting interregnum was over.
And the equivocal situation is indeed one which permits of two different meanings at the same time, the one merely plausible, which is put forward by the actors, the other a real one, which is given by the public.
Hence arise the misunderstandings and the equivocal nature of the situation.
What common ground can we find between the grimace of a merry-andrew, a play upon words, an equivocal situation in a burlesque and a scene of high comedy?
That this was an equivocal compliment to Milton's memory Dryden himself lived to acknowledge.
Questioned, if he had ever left the kingdoms of Spain since his first arrival, or had any dealings with people of equivocal faith.
Answered, that he had exercised his trade of a brazier for more than sixty years, in the kingdoms of Catalonia and Arragon, visiting at times his home in France, where there are no Lutherans, nor any persons of equivocal faith.
Harvey, in fact, believed as implicitly as Aristotle did in theequivocal generation of the lower animals.
I have you now, Madame," exclaimed the King with a somewhat equivocal smile; "and you shall not escape me again.
Andermatt was afraid that Gontran's marriage might not take place, for Père Oriol had, that very morning, spoken of him in equivocal terms.
His interest in the matter was so honest and simple amid all the complication of his youthful superficial insincerities, that this equivocal action was one of the very few which Vincent had actually never questioned even to himself.
If anybody saw you talking to an equivocal female figure at eleven o'clock in George Street, think what the butterman would say; but a single glimpse of my face would explain matters better than a volume.
He believed that better terms might have been exacted from Spain in the late negotiations, and strongly objected to the cavilling and equivocal language of the treaty.
But the white, diaphanous old man seems neither to see nor to hear, and the huge heads of Jupiter, the trunks of Hercules, the equivocal statues of Antinous continue to watch him as he passes on!
There are giant popes of bronze, allegorical figures and angels of equivocal character wearing the beauty of lovely girls, of passion-compelling women with the thighs and the breasts of pagan goddesses!
It's a deplorable axiom, an equivocal form of diplomacy even when it isn't so much low hypocrisy!
Prodigality in a king, however, who draws not on his own resources, but on the public, forfeits even this equivocal claim to applause.
His most equivocal act was his delay to obey the royal summons.
Janus nature, which stands in an equivocal relation,--to the divine nature by his actual perfections, to the human nature by his participation in the same animal frailties and capacities of fleshly temptation.
My only concern is that you shall put an end to this equivocal state of things for good.
And she proceeded to do so in her ownequivocal fashion.
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