tarriance
Example Sentences
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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 Birrell, Augustine
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
So feared the King, And, after two days' tarriance there, returned.
From Idylls of the King by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron
After having finished the service in Yorkshire, I have had a week's tarriance at Harrowgate.
From Memoir and Diary of John Yeardley, Minister of the Gospel by Yeardley, John
Making these Tents stronger or slighter, according to the time of their tarriance.
