tarriance

Example Sentences

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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

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

He who was born in happy hour made no tarriance; they saddled him Bavieca and threw his trappings on.

From Chronicle of the Cid by Southey, Robert

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

So now, being old, my children eye askance    My slowly dwindling store, And crave my mite; till, worn with tarriance,    I care for life no more.

From Wessex Poems and Other Verses by Hardy, Thomas