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'I neither implied nor indicated nor mentioned a satellite, nor intended a satellite, never. 'YOU PREVARICATOR! she cried, in real indignation. 'Tea is ready, sir, said the landlady from the doorway. They both looked at her, very much as the cats had looked at them, a little while before. 'Thank you, Mrs Daykin. An interrupted silence fell over the two of them, a moment of breach.
The proclamation naturally made quite a stir among the great prevaricators of the realm, and hundreds of stories came pouring in from competitors everywhere, some even surreptitiously borrowing "whoppers" from the Persians, who are well known as the greatest economizers of the truth in all Asia; but they were one and all adjudged by the astute monarch-who was himself a most experienced prevaricator probably the noblest Roman of them all as containing incidents that might under extraordinary circumstances have been true.
Oliver refers to Archbishop Laud as a "deep-dyed liar," and in the Cathedral, at Ely, he once interrupted the services by calling the officiating clergyman, "a pious prevaricator." Cromwell, like many another bluff and gruff man, was a deal more tender-hearted than he was willing to admit. The death of his daughter broke the heart of Old Noll he could not live without her.
In accordance with that formulary, the mention at the divine mysteries of the prevaricator Acacius, formerly bishop of this city, has been forbidden for the future, as well as of the other bishops who either first came against the apostolic constitutions, or became successors of their error, and remained unrepentant to death.
The Pacific has three blues: the blue of morning, the blue of midday, and the blue of evening. But the blue of morning is the happiest: the happiest thing in colour sparkling, vague, newborn the blue of heaven and youth. "What are you looking for, Paddy?" asked Dick. "Say-gulls," replied the prevaricator; then to himself: "Not a sight or a sound of them!
It was really hard when she was in his presence to think of him as an audacious prevaricator and perhaps worse. He was so kindly in his manner and speech to her.
"If you hadn't I'd have booted you awake anyway, for you were snoring loud enough to bring the whole German army down on you." "I'd hate to call you an out and out prevaricator, Tom," remarked Billy, rubbing his eyes and running his hands through his tumbled hair, "so I'll simply say that you use the truth with great economy. Suppose you bring me my breakfast.
"Cavilling, not gravelling," said Don Quixote, "thou prevaricator of honest language, God confound thee!" "Don't find fault with me, your worship," returned Sancho, "for you know I have not been bred up at court or trained at Salamanca, to know whether I am adding or dropping a letter or so in my words. Why!
I do not believe in strong language, but that heavy individual with the soiled book was a dusty liar. There is no other word to express it if there was, and a stronger one, I would use it. He was a liar by instinct and a prevaricator by trade. The van was not at our door when I returned. Neither had it started in our direction.
He will surely be heard from again some day, as he has the elements that go to make up a successful prevaricator. He said that I could go through from Cincinnati to Asheville, North Carolina, with only one easy change of cars, and in about twenty-three hours. It took me twice that time, and I had to change cars three times in the dead of night.
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