tarriance

Lady, as little tarriance as we may, Lest some misfortune happen by the way.

From Fair Em by Shakespeare (spurious and doubtful works)

Our short tarriance here has excited curiosity to know who and what we are, and a great desire for books; and a liberal supply has been furnished them.

From Memoir and Diary of John Yeardley, Minister of the Gospel by John Yeardley

Making these Tents stronger or slighter, according to the time of their tarriance.

From An Historical Relation of the Island Ceylon in the East Indies Together with an Account of the Detaining in Captivity the Author and Divers other Englishmen Now Living There, and of the Author's Miraculous Escape by Robert Knox

Howbeit we made no longer tarriance in either of these two towns, for that my father had resolved to fix his abode in the city of Geneva.'

From In the Name of the Bodleian and Other Essays by Augustine Birrell

Up! break the sluggish bonds Of tarriance; with loud din Cithaeron calls, Steed-taming Epidaurus, and thy hounds, Taygete; and hark! the assenting groves With peal on peal reverberate the roar.

From The Georgics by Virgil