Not that he could fairly be called a temporizer, for deep down in him there was undoubtedly a vein of obstinate, fundamental loyalty to the traditions of a caste which prized high spirit beyond all things.
"The Patrician"
John Galsworthy
Edward could, indeed, as we have seen, be false and crafty, a temporizer, a dissimulator; but it was only as the tiger creeps,-the better to spring, undetected, on its prey.
"The Last Of The Barons, Complete"
Edward Bulwer-Lytton