tarriance
Example Sentences
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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 Yeardley, John
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 Southey, Robert
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 Hazlitt, William Carew
So feared the King, And, after two days' tarriance there, returned.
From Idylls of the King by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron
Making these Tents stronger or slighter, according to the time of their tarriance.
