tarriance

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

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

Making these Tents stronger or slighter, according to the time of their tarriance.

From An Historical Relation of the Island Ceylon in the East Indies Together with an Account of the Detaining in Captivity the Author and Divers other Englishmen Now Living There, and of the Author's Miraculous Escape by Knox, 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 now, being old, my children eye askance    My slowly dwindling store, And crave my mite; till, worn with tarriance,    I care for life no more.

From Wessex Poems and Other Verses by Hardy, Thomas