tarry at
Example Sentences
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But we must pass on to other waters, and not tarry at this glorious cataract until we are carried away by our subject.
From Round-about Rambles in Lands of Fact and Fancy by Frank Richard Stockton
I am permitted to tarry at none of them.
From Cities of the Dawn by J. Ewing (James Ewing) Ritchie
My friends, whether you tarry at home—which will be quite as safe and perhaps quite as comfortable—or go into the country, arm yourself against temptation.
From New Tabernacle Sermons by T. De Witt (Thomas De Witt) Talmage
Anxious to return to Quebec as soon as possible, with the tidings of their glorious achievement, they made no tarry at the many villages which were scattered along the banks.
From The Adventures of the Chevalier De La Salle and His Companions, in Their Explorations of the Prairies, Forests, Lakes, and Rivers, of the New World, and Their Interviews with the Savage Tribes, Two Hundred Years Ago by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott
I did but tarry at Court till the great plague-time, when all was broke up, and I went home to nurse my mother, who took the plague and died of it.
From The Maidens' Lodge None of Self and All of Thee, (In the Reign of Queen Anne) by Horace Petherick
