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Meanings of dally with in English

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Usage of dally with in English
1
A dark design came to her to dally with him no longer.
We Can't Have Everything: A Novel
2
We've got no contract with the wench, so don't dally with her.
The Quest of the Silver Fleece: A Novel
3
The subject was too disagreeable for him to dally with it.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 77, March, 1864 / A Magazin...
4
So don't dilly- dally with making payments if you have the funds.
Ebony
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But I do not mean to dally with you this morning.
Mary Wollstonecraft
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At first he shut his ears to it, to dally with side issues.
Australia Felix
7
Not to dally with usurping emotions, I turned my eyes aside.
Lilith: A Romance
8
He put this question more to dally with what he ought to be saying.
Evan Harrington — Volume 6
9
Go dally with some other bird, for to this one you have no right.
Four Arthurian Romances
10
You first endure, then dally with them, and finally embrace them as established facts.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume ...
11
Up, and did this morning dally with Nell... which I was afterward troubled for.
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1667 N.S.
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It is well to dally with the great things.
The Great Prince Shan
13
He would dally with the aroma that was there.
Zuleika Dobson; Or, An Oxford Love Story
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Up, and did this morning dally with Nell .
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 54: June 1667
15
But once that awful voice is deadened, they charm, and allure to dally with them.
Expositions of Holy Scripture: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus and Nu...
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She could dally with her perplexity, evade it, trust to time for guidance, no longer.
Desperate Remedies
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United Kingdom
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