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He mustn't palter, or trifle, or shilly-shally about that iron certainty.— The Devil's Garden
The Chancellor may weigh and palter--the courtier is decided, the politician is firm, and rivetted to his place in the Cabinet!— The Spirit of the Age Contemporary Portraits
He will not palter with a double sense,— Expositions of Holy Scripture Psalms
That palter with us in a double sense;— Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Kings Chapters VIII to End and Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah. Esther, Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes
Nor palter with unworthy pleas.— The Complete Works of Whittier

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