"Equivocate" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... flushed a little. He felt that questions were trembling on her lips which he did not wish to answer, and the one thing he could not do was equivocate. ...
— 'Laramie;' - or, The Queen of Bedlam. • Charles King
... cast at her a look so full of pathetic appeal that she felt the tears come into her eyes. It was the look of a hunted creature which sees no way of escape, yet which has not the fury of resistance, which pleads its own weakness. She knew that Philip could not equivocate and that the secret of his heart lay bare before her. She shrank from what she had done, and a flood of pity and sympathy filled ...
— The Puritans • Arlo Bates
... a file of the Liberator, which suggests the iron will of the man in his conflict with slavery, and the strength of his purpose is further shown in the following inscription on the side of the pedestal "I am in earnest; I will not equivocate; I will not excuse; I will not retire a single ...
— The Bay State Monthly, Volume 3, No. 4 • Various
... equivocations are, after all, a kind of lying,—faint lies or awkward lies, but still lies; and some of these disputants infer, that therefore we must not equivocate, and others that equivocation is but a half-measure, and that it is better to say at once that in certain ...
— Apologia Pro Vita Sua • John Henry Cardinal Newman
... notions of duty as well as of honour, and he would not equivocate to his mother. "I do care very much for Sibylla West," he said in a low tone; "and, please God, I hope she will sometime be my wife. But, mother, this confidence is entirely between ourselves. I beg you not to speak of it; it must not be ...
— Verner's Pride • Mrs. Henry Wood
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