tarriance

Example Sentences

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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

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

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

From Fair Em by Shakespeare (spurious and doubtful works)

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

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

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