tarrying
Example Sentences
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Tarrying afterward, however, he asked where the contracts’ effects would appear, and Robert Moses, the New York urban planning czar, offered to show him some sites.
From New York Times • Jul. 23, 2010
Tarrying for only a day or less in such cities as Ottawa, Winnipeg and Vancouver, the Queen will see more of her people and country than most Canadians do in a lifetime.
From Time Magazine Archive
Tarrying only long enough to rest and refresh themselves, for they were anxious to return to the farmhouse, they were soon on their way thither.
From Peggy Owen and Liberty by Madison, Lucy Foster
Beloved of Love—life's King, death's Conqueror, 790 Tarrying by will of Him through troubled time, Lighting the way unto eternity.
From Elias An Epic of the Ages by Whitney, Orson F.
Tarrying in the same house with me was Mrs. John Griffith Worthington of Georgetown, D.C., with whom I formed a lasting friendship.
From As I Remember Recollections of American Society during the Nineteenth Century by Gouverneur, Marian
