go around the houses vs prevaricate

go around the houses

verb
  • Do something (especially talking) circuitously. 

prevaricate

verb
  • To shift or turn from direct speech or behaviour; to deviate from the truth; to evade the truth; to waffle or be (intentionally) ambiguous. 

  • To undertake something falsely and deceitfully, with the purpose of defeating or destroying it. 

  • To collude, as where an informer colludes with the defendant, and makes a sham prosecution. 

How often have the words go around the houses and prevaricate occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )