Temporiser

Is this space of our couple of hours too dimensional for you, temporiser? ❋ Unknown (2006)

‘Que la trahison se taise! car c’est trahir que de conseiller de temporiser avec Buonaparte. ❋ Unknown (2002)

"Nothing was omitted that might make for the temporiser"; even the example of Paul, who went up into the Temple to pay his vow by the advice of the Apostle James, which step, however, Knox pronounced at once, notwithstanding his absolute reverence for Holy Writ, to have been wrong, and not of God -- a mistake of both the Apostles, and manifestly bringing no blessing with it. ❋ George Reid (1862)

Mais la Providence permit qu'un homme se trouvat qui n'a jamais su ce que c'est que la crainte; qui aima sa patrie mieux que sa renommee; impenetrable devant les menaces, inaccessible aux louanges, il se presenta devant le conseil de la nation, et levant son front tranquille en haut, il osa dire: 'Que la trahison se taise! car c'est trahir que de conseiller de temporiser avec Buonaparte. ❋ Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell (1837)

He is prudent by nature, and a temporiser from necessity. ❋ Alphonse De Lamartine (1829)

This threat had no effect on Kutusoff; he persisted in remaining inactive; either because to the frost of age was superadded that of winter, and that in his shattered frame his mind was depressed by the sight of so many ruins; or that, from another effect of old age, a person becomes prudent when he has scarcely any thing to risk, and a temporiser when he has no more time to lose. ❋ Philippe-Paul S��gur (1826)

"Le pape différa tant qu'il put la réparation, persuadé qu 'avec les Français il n'y a qu' à temporiser, et que tout s'oublie." ❋ James Boswell (1767)