If I could temporize with my affections Or brew it to a weak and colder palate, The like allayment could I give my grief.
The Dauphin is too wilful-opposite, And will not temporize with my entreaties; He flatly says he'll not lay down his arms.
If you are willing to be rid of so dangerous a man, my life is at your disposal: but if you must temporize with him, I do nothing to further measures which are to be carried out by flattery and hypocrisy.
When an entire nation are united, they rise to equality with their rulers, and it is no condescension then on the part of the sovereign if he listen to their grievances and temporize with the aggrieved.
I have no time totemporize as you would advise me to do.
Never temporize if there is any suspicion of the existence of such diseases as consumption or cancer.
The presence of pain in the head, or in any other part of the body, may be a symptom of a serious and deep-seated disorder, and it may often be a serious matter to temporize with it.
Henry's lieutenants were compelled totemporize and make concessions.
Accordingly he endeavoured to temporize and to avoid a rupture, to the archbishop's great disgust.
Trevethick winced; for the promise of the young man's interest with respect to Wheal Danes had, in fact, been the bait which had tempted him to temporize so long.
Upon the whole, he was almost as glad to temporize in the matter as Richard was himself.
He could not lawfully and properly temporize with a malum in se, ("that which is in itself sin.
She must temporize with Fernely--write in a style that would convey nothing, and tell him that he must wait.
If she could but temporize with him, if she could but pacify him, for a time, until she was married, all would be safe.
The Romans, hoping to temporize with the danger, had endeavored to conciliate Ariovistus, and in the year of Caesar's consulship had declared him a friend of the Roman people.
When the news of the Social war reached Mithridates, he thought it needless to temporize longer, and he stretched out his hand to seize the prize of the dominion of the East.
The Dolphin is too wilfull opposite And will nottemporize with my intreaties: He flatly saies, hee'll not lay downe his Armes Bast.
Consequently, I watched very closely the temper of the crowd, until I became convinced we couldn't temporize any longer, and I gave the command to load.
But not possessing such a strong army as would have enabled them to temporize with their enemies, and consequently not having the time needed for gaining any to their side, they were undone.
Wherefore we may always assume when we see a war set on foot by many against one, that this one, if he have strength to withstand the first shock, and can temporize and wait his opportunity, is certain to prevail.
When a Mischief has grown up in, or against a State, it is safer to temporize with than to meet it with Violence.
When a mischief has grown up in, or against a State, it is safer totemporize with it than to meet it with violence XXXIV.
And from this time he began to seek new alliances and to temporize with France in the expedition which she was making towards the kingdom of Naples against the Spaniards who were besieging Gaeta.
But recovering courage from the offers of the Florentines, he decided totemporize before fighting with the few soldiers that remained to him, and to negotiate for a reconciliation, and also to get assistance.
The Czar desired to temporize until his Mediterranean squadron should gain a place of safety and his Baltic ports be encased in ice; but on 27th October (8th November, N.
I now felt more than ever how dear she was become to me, and I promised myself not to temporize any longer.
It was therefore in keeping with Overberg's character that he recommended me to temporize with the General, to give him time to pay his debts, and not to drive such an old man to despair, though he was a foreigner.
He might be persuaded to temporize with the party which still offered to preserve a show of royalty in the constitution, until time or circumstances permitted him to enlarge its basis.
At the point of a revolver, yes, when, fearing for her life, she determined to temporize with you, hoping to throw you off your guard that she might escape your cowardly persecution.
Let ustemporize with him until we are out of his power.
But though he thus spoke totemporize over the position in which he now found himself, he knew that his opportunity was gone never to recur.
The King was now saying what he really believed, and at the sound of his own voice telling him he realized that all he had to do was to temporize and time would bring its own solution.
Temporize was all he could think of; temporize till he could hit on some expedient for ridding the position of this awkward element which threatened to spoil it.
The Americans will then know that we shall nottemporize any longer; if it passes with a tolerable unanimity, Boston will submit, and all will end in victory without carnage.
To temporize is to yield; and the authority of the mother country, if it is now unsupported, will in reality be relinquished for ever.
For Nat had talked with his men, and all had agreed that they would not turn traitor, though they intended to temporize as long as possible, in the hope of catching the Black Caesar unawares.
When this army finally appeared outside the gates of Constantinople, the sultan and his soldiers realized that all was lost, but it was now too late to temporize again.
The sultan, seeing that the whole army was against him, suddenly decided to temporize and finally agreed to proclaim a constitution for Turkey.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "temporize" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
