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Updated: June 25, 2025
"A few minutes since you asked whether we had not heard from Graham during our absence, and I said there were two letters for papa on business; this was true, but I did not tell you all." "You evaded?" "I shuffled and equivocated, you know. However, I am going to speak the truth now; it is getting darker; one can talk at one's ease.
Bishop was caught; he equivocated; he had not yet bought it; but he was furnishing his house, and had fixed upon the place where it was to be hung. "Ah, Sam!" rejoined Goldsmith reproachfully, "if your picture had been published, I should not have waited an hour without having it."
Because she felt herself unable to advocate in plain terms a thorough shutting up of her daughter, a protecting of her from the temptation of sin by absolute and prolonged sequestration, therefore she equivocated with him, pretending to think that he was desirous of sending his girl out to have her hair braided and herself arrayed in gold and pearls.
Remember, nothing is mean that is not sin, and an acted falsehood like this is sin and shame both while your brother's deed is an honour. Alda was obliged to go away murmuring within herself, 'That's all true: it is very good of Felix, and I should not have equivocated, I know; but those stupid girls, how is one to live with them?
None could wonder that the precepts and example of the malecontent clergy should have corrupted the malecontent laity. When Prebendaries and Rectors were not ashamed to avow that they had equivocated, in the very act of kissing the New Testament, it was hardly to be expected that attorneys and taxgatherers would be more scrupulous.
Waddington turned to a particular account, which he had investigated in the morning, pointed it out to him, and begged to know how he could account for such and such entries. My gentleman turned pale and equivocated. Mr.
"Throw in a little more coal, sonny; I'm half froze, but I guess that's the worst any one can say of me!" "You make much of it, whatever it is," said Mrs. Shrimplin. "Maybe I do and maybe I don't," equivocated Mr. Shrimplin genially. "Maybe you're not above telling a body what kept you out half the night?" inquired his wife. "If you done and seen what I've did and saw," replied Mr.
Walsingham, although kept in the dark as much as it was possible, discovered from time to time the mysterious practices of his political antagonists, and warned the Queen of the danger and dishonour she was bringing upon herself. Elizabeth, when thus boldly charged, equivocated and stormed alternately.
'It is very sad, parting with old friends, murmured Mrs. Macdougal, with veiled eyes. 'Sadder parting with new ones, replied Jim, glancing towards Lucy. 'Oh yes, it is, is it not? But you will come and visit us some time at Boobyalla. We are shipmates, and that's a sort of relationship in Australia. Done thanked her, but equivocated.
To injure, to insult, and to save himself from the consequences of injury and insult by lying and equivocating, was the habit of his life. He published a lampoon on the Duke of Chandos; he was taxed with it; and he lied and equivocated. He published a lampoon on Aaron Hill; he was taxed with it; and he lied and equivocated.
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