tarry at

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

The people flocked after them, and many were the invitations extended to tarry at some hall, but the supposed minstrel and his daughter refused them, and kept steadily on their way to the Danish camp.

From A Maid at King Alfred?s Court by Madison, Lucy Foster

Bernaldez has algunos dias, and Coma says the tarry at Gomera was nearly six days. 284-2 La nao Capitana means the flagship.

From The Northmen, Columbus and Cabot, 985-1503 by Olson, Julius E.

Old Croom, deacon and magistrate, was not one to tarry at such a gathering longer than need be.

From The Mormon Prophet by Dougall, Lily

As many as sword and helm can bear    With him must sail across the foam; All of fit age must follow their liege,    Those who are not may tarry at home.

From King Hacon's Death and Bran and the Black Dog two ballads by Borrow, George Henry

After a short tarry at Mackinac, the sails of the Griffin were again spread, and passing through the strait between Mackinac and the main land, they entered the head of Lake Michigan.

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 Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot)