tarriance

Example Sentences

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Lady, as little tarriance as we may, Lest some misfortune happen by the way.

From Fair Em by Shakespeare (spurious and doubtful works)

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

His tarriance full spent, he departed    And met me in Venice, And lines from her told that my jilter    Was stooping to sue.

From Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses by Hardy, Thomas

Thus one cause of my tarriance to you I do render: Another I had as I came by the way, Which did me the longer from your company stay.

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 6 by Hazlitt, William Carew

So feared the King,   And, after two days' tarriance there, returned.

From Idylls of the King by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron