tarry over

The Welsh Rugby Union has enjoyed financial stability in recent years, having flirted with bankruptcy a decade ago when things got so bad their bankers told the governing body if it continued to tarry over appointing a chief executive, they would lose the keys to the Millennium Stadium.

Long did bewhiskered Frenchmen tarry over their Amer Picon discussing the significance of the latest hitch in the "affaires" of the Rumanian romancer.

They did not tarry over their meal.

Therefore we are to use all things on earth as a guest, who goes on wearily and arrives at an inn where he must tarry over night, and can receive nothing from it but food and lodging; yet does not say that the property of the inn is his.

He does not tarry over the foreign territory, nor does he hurry.