tarry over
Example Sentences
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Long did bewhiskered Frenchmen tarry over their Amer Picon discussing the significance of the latest hitch in the "affaires" of the Rumanian romancer.
From Time Magazine Archive
Yet ofttimes do guests tarry over the Pascal cup until the hour grow late.
From The Coming of the King by Babcock, Bernie
At length Melchoir's star seemed to tarry over the spire of a gothic church, into which the people were going in throngs.
From Christmas Stories And Legends by Curtiss, Phebe A.
We need not tarry over the painful, touching scene oft-told, and felt sooner or later in every home.
From Alvira, the Heroine of Vesuvius by O'Reilly, A. J. (Augustine J.)
Scant cause is there for me to tarry over the details of my return to Paris.
From The Suitors of Yvonne: being a portion of the memoirs of the Sieur Gaston de Luynes by Sabatini, Rafael
