tarriance
Example Sentences
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Up! break the sluggish bonds Of tarriance; with loud din Cithaeron calls, Steed-taming Epidaurus, and thy hounds, Taygete; and hark! the assenting groves With peal on peal reverberate the roar.
From The Georgics by Virgil
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 Robert Southey
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 Robert Southey
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.
