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I pray you let five good lads ride straight for Douglasdale with David in the midst Sholto," cried the boy, "I will not go back, nor be a palterer, all because you are afraid for your own skin My place is with my master," said Sholto, curtly, and the boy looked ashamed for a moment; but he soon recovered himself and returned to the charge Well, then, 'tis because you want to see Maud Lindesay that you are so set on returning.— The Black Douglas
He can get around it, evade it somehow, but that's the part of the timid and palterer, and sooner or later the superficial man is found out.— Winning His "W" A Story of Freshman Year at College
In Djabal, at once enthusiast and impostor, Browning may seem, as often afterwards, to offer an apology for the palterer with truth; but in the interests of truth itself, he desires to study the strange phenomenon of the deceiver who would fain half-deceive himself FOOTNOTES Footnote 18: Dr Moncure Conway in "The Nation" vol. i. (an article written on the occasion of Browning's death) says that he was told by Carlyle of his first meeting with Browning--as Carlyle rode upon Wimbledon Common a "beautiful youth," walking there alone, stopped him and asked for his acquaintance.— Robert Browning
"Are you at heart a poltroon or a palterer, cruel, dull, envious, full of hate?— From a Cornish Window A New Edition
He is but a drunkard in his cups, thou a palterer in sobriety. '— The Fifth Queen Crowned
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