tarriance

Example Sentences

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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

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

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)

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