tarriance
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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
So feared the King, And, after two days' tarriance there, returned.
From Idylls of the King by Alfred Tennyson, Baron Tennyson
He who was born in happy hour made no tarriance; he drew on his legs hose of fine cloth, and put on over them shoes which were richly worked.
From Chronicle of the Cid by Robert Southey
Thus one cause of my tarriance to you I do render: Another I had as I came by the way, Which did me the longer from your company stay.
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 6 by William Carew Hazlitt
So now, being old, my children eye askance My slowly dwindling store, And crave my mite; till, worn with tarriance, I care for life no more.
From Wessex Poems and Other Verses by Thomas Hardy
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