palter

Since murder was that man's intention, why should he palter with small details?

My friend, thou hast gone too far to palter now.

Why do you palter with the ceremony?

A whoreson dog, that shall palter with us thus!

Why should you palter with magazines?

"I would not palter with the plague.

What other bond Than secret Romans that have spoke the word And will not palter?

Thou laggard sonorous Beer-vat, with the loud voice and timber head, is it time now to palter?

None may palter with the king's command, or fit it to his ease, where it doth chafe, with deft evasions.

And I would warn you, sir, that if you palter with the truth in such little matters you may darken your more important statements with suspicion.

Yet he was himself a very stern respecter of the hedgerows; sought safety and found dignity in the obvious path of conduct; and would palter with no simple and recognised duty of his epoch.

After that, as if disdaining to palter any further with a prey so insignificant, the colossus turned his back on the little monastery, and like some fiend-born Goliath, went roaring down the valley into Averoigne.