None may palter with the King's command, or fit it to his ease, where it doth chafe, with deft evasions.
I have found no time to palter with the fripperies of women.
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.
His brain reeled, but he could not doubt it or palter over it for a moment.
But," continued the baron anxiously, "what hope that this juggling slave of Saladin will not palter with your Grace?
Palter not with me, Sir Scot--it were ill for thy safety," said the irritable monarch.
That palterwith us in a double sense] That shuffle with ambiguous expressions.
Let these be no more believ'd That palter with us in a double sense.
For in the first flush of the frightful discovery I did not stop to palter with myself, I did not attempt to disguise the truth, to delude myself with the hope that this was a new experience in Barbara's character.
I needed nothing to convince me that he was a truthful and honorable man who would not palter with his conscience even though it added to the peril in which he stood.
It is not to be a Justice of Peace as you are, and palter out your time i'th' penal Statutes.
It is not to be a justice of Peace as you are, And palter out your time ith' penal Statutes.
