shillyshally

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

Ulysses 2003

(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 Neil Munro

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

Ulysses James Joyce 1911

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

April Hopes William Dean Howells 1878

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

Complete Short Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868

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

Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868

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

Farina George Meredith 1868

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 Robert Ames Bennet 1912

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 William Dean Howells 1878