tarriance

Example Sentences

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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

His tarriance full spent, he departed    And met me in Venice, And lines from her told that my jilter    Was stooping to sue.

From Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses by Hardy, Thomas

He who was born in happy hour made no tarriance; they saddled him Bavieca and threw his trappings on.

From Chronicle of the Cid by Southey, Robert

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 Birrell, Augustine

So feared the King,   And, after two days' tarriance there, returned.

From Idylls of the King by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron