"Timeserving" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... have only attempted, to place Napoleon on the stage of action, and oppose his words, his deeds, and the truth, to the erroneous assertions of certain historians, the falsehoods of the spirit of party, and the insults of those timeserving writers, who are accustomed to insult in misfortune those, to whom they ...
— Memoirs of the Private Life, Return, and Reign of Napoleon in 1815, Vol. I • Pierre Antoine Edouard Fleury de Chaboulon
... make their student-years but a pretext for a life of rough debauchery, from which they issue with a bought diploma; and, in many cases, satiated and disgusted with their own lives, they dwindle down into the timeserving reactionaries, the worst enemies of free development, because they themselves have abused in youth ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 7, Issue 41, March, 1861 • Various
... that the freed man would not become a public charge. But, defective as it was, it was not long without attack. In 1798, Simcoe had left the province never to return, and while the government was being administered by the timeserving Peter Russell,[10] a bill was introduced into the Lower House to enable persons "migrating into the province to bring their negro slaves with them." The bill was contested at every stage but finally passed on a vote of eight to four. In the Legislative Council it received ...
— The Journal of Negro History, Volume 5, 1920 • Various
... the hare but run with the hounds; nager entre deux eaux [Fr.]; wait to see how the cat jumps, wait to see how the wind blows. Adj. changeful &c 149; irresolute &c 605; ductile, slippery as an eel, trimming, ambidextrous, timeserving^; coquetting &c v.. revocatory^, reactionary. Phr. a change came o'er the ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget
... is of cowardice and the passage is a fling at the "timeserving" of the Olema, a favourite theme, like "banging the bishops" ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 10 • Richard F. Burton |
