As she had received the confident idea of escape with life from the visit of Cranmer, there can be no rational doubt that he had been employed by the king to tamper with her fears of death and the stake, and draw this concession from her.
She could not tamper with the evidences of the date of her own birth.
I promise you indemnity for your loss, and an apology that shall, I trust, satisfy your feelings, assuring you that to tamper with witnesses is not the province of a Feverel.
They can at last tamper with truth without compunction or alarm; and the most solemn functions have often furnished materials only for mirth.
And who can ever compute the guilt of those who tamper with a servant's truthfulness, and train her to falsehood, to screen them from intruders?
There was one other matter in which I was obliged to tamper with legislation.
Moreover, as John Morley puts it, "to tamper with veracity is to tamper with the vital force of human progress.
Dare not to tamper with it, or my curse shall pursue you.
No, that cannot be; he would not dare to tamper with these seals.
At the moment his heart had gone out to Vivien in a great pang of compassion; it seemed such a shame to tamper with, even if not actually to betray, a trust like hers.
Led by those impulses of pride or of spite, she had set herself to tamper with Vivien's happiness; in the attempt she had fatally involved her own.
And if you want to have the Cross of Christ held upright in its place as the Throne of Christ and the attractive power for the whole world, you must not tamper with that great truth, but say, 'He died for our sins, according to the Scriptures.
And if, for the sake of meeting new phases of thought, Christian churches tamperwith this central truth, they have flung away their means of progress and of power.
A knobbed tamper which leaves numerous irregular depressions about 2 inches in diameter and three-fourths inch deep is often employed.
We may compare this with some other true remarks of Luther’s: “It is the way with all heretics to tamper first with only one article and then gradually to deny all.
It was even already certain that the Roman Catholic priests were endeavoring to tamper with the loyalty of the soldiers of their persuasion.
Checkweighmen shall not interfere with the use of or tamper with such scales, machinery or apparatus, nor make any false entry of any weight, or in any manner exceed the duties prescribed herein.
When it is necessary to tamp dynamite, nothing but a wooden tamper shall be used.
The great moralist says: "To trifle with the vocabulary which is the vehicle of social intercourse is to tamper with the currency of human intelligence.
Shall death, or life, or angels, or principalities, or powers, arrest or tamper with his eternal correspondences?
One reason for this is that to tamper with these correspondences might involve injury to closely related vital parts.
Anybody who would tamperwith boats would tamper with a cabin, we reckon," growled Mr. Grigsby.
To make false by multilation or addition; to tamper with; as, to falsify a record or document.
To meddle; to be busy; to try little experiments; as, to tamper with a disease.
Should I endeavour to tamper with the servant, he might discover my design, and then I should be abridged of the little comfort I enjoy.
You came here clandestinely to tamper like a schemer with my child.
In copying the names of the supposed ancestors of Jesus, they tamper with the list as given in the book of Chronicles, in the Old Testament, and thereby justly expose themselves to the charge of bad faith.
One of the oldest critics of the Christian religion was a Pagan, known to history under the name of Porphyry; yet, the early Fathers did not hesitate to tamper even with the writings of an avowed opponent of their religion.
Indeed the singer's awe of the mysterious revelation given him may be so deep that he dares nottamper with his first impetuous transcription of it.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tamper" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: buffer; disturb; fool; lathe; meddle; poke; tool
