Show me that letter.' 'What letter?' 'Don't prevaricate with me.'

To whiffle = to hesitate; waver; prevaricate.

I had been led to prevaricate as to the moment I entered the lower gateway, and he may have done the same as to the hour he left by the upper hall window.

That I should prevaricate even to my own detriment, at a preliminary examination, only to tell the truth openly and like a man when in court and under the sanctity of an oath was, in the popular estimation, something to my credit; and Mr. Moffat, whose chief recommendation as counsel lay in his quick appreciation of the exigencies of the moment, did not press me too sharply on this point when he came to his cross-examination.

It is an appeal to God as a most upright Judge whether we do prevaricate in asserting what we do not believe true, or in promising what we are not firmly resolved to perform.

" "I have brought no gift for Mademoiselle de Renzie," I prevaricated boldly; but the man's knowledge of my name was ominous.

Had Ivor told that he was with me, after I had prevaricated (if I had not actually lied) to Raoul about the midnight visitor to my house, what would Raoul think of me?

prevaricated Tutt, at the same time groping for his silk handkerchief.

And if he shuffle and prevaricate as to her, question him about Miss Lockyer.

"What should I be searching for bones for?" "Don't prevaricate," said the cobbler sternly; "answer the question:

"I don't think he's in the parlour," Hilda prevaricated.

misstate, misquote, miscite^, misreport, misrepresent; belie, falsify, pervert, distort; put a false construction upon &c (misinterpret); prevaricate, equivocate, quibble; palter, palter to the understanding; repondre en Normand

To the Duchess he prevaricated and hinted that the sudden death of the child was due to the malignant spotted fever, and that he had given personal instructions for the immediate removal and interment of her body.

" Henry had indeed prevaricated, for Angel had chanced to ask him just after Myrtilla's letter about his poems.

And yet he felt that he had prevaricated to her, and, in fact, deceived her, in the answer he had made when she asked him if he had sent her cousin to speak for him to Miss March.

To have fibbed a little, or even to have prevaricated whitely, would have spoiled everything.

An' ef I had to take one or the other, why, I'd let my wife prevaricate a little, ef need be, befo' I'd relinquish warmheartedness, an' the power to command peacefulness an' rest, an' make things comfortable an' homely, day in an' day out.

" "I never did doubt it, as a matter of fact, although I prevaricated at the time.

" "Just a minute," she prevaricated.

" "Some one of the girls was telling me," she prevaricated.

didn'tdidn't destroy it!" "Threw it into the river, thendon't prevaricate about details.

The man, taken by surprise, changed colour and prevaricated so much that the captain at once took him back to Bayard's lodging.

If we consider only them, better had it been for the English nation that it had still remained in the original Greek and Hebrew, or at least in the honest Latin of St Jerome, than that several texts in it should have been prevaricated, to the destruction of that government which put it into so ungrateful hands.

For the first time in his life he wore a mask before his companions, and prevaricated, and became, on a small scale, a humbug.

" "Sir!" replied Dymock, "Sir! do you give me the lie?direct or indirect, I will not bear it; I, a son of the house of Dymock, to be thus bearded in my own Tower, to be told that what I choose to assert may not be true; that I am, in fact, a deceiver,a sharper,one that would prevaricate for sordid pelf!"