shillyshally

“(John M'Iver the humblest of its members) built up on doubt and whim and shillyshally hither and yond?”

John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn

“Then a lot of shillyshally usually followed, Tom for and Dick and Harry against.”

Ulysses

“You've got to shillyshally, and then you've got to go it blind.”

April Hopes

“Two not sound, five true as steel, and the rest shillyshally.”

Farina

“And you'd shillyshally around, and throw over the true, noble hero to whom you owe everything -- whom you've pretended you loved -- to run after a title, an Englishman, when you could have that big-hearted American! ”

Out of the Primitive

“You'll have the moral courage to come right to the point when he would like to shillyshally, and you can be frank while he's trying to think how to make y-e-s spell no. ”

April Hopes