tarriance

Example Sentences

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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

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

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

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

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

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

From Fair Em by Shakespeare (spurious and doubtful works)