tarriance

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 William Carew Hazlitt

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

From Idylls of the King by Alfred Tennyson, Baron Tennyson

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 Robert Knox

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 John Yeardley

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 John Yeardley