tarriance

Example Sentences

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Our short tarriance here has excited curiosity to know who and what we are, and a great desire for books; and a liberal supply has been furnished them.

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

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

He who was born in happy hour made no tarriance; he drew on his legs hose of fine cloth, and put on over them shoes which were richly worked.

From Chronicle of the Cid by Southey, Robert

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