tarry over

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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

We will not tarry over imaginary incidents whilst terrible and thrilling scenes are before us.

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

This generation of the idea of value has not been noted by the economists with sufficient care: it is important that we should tarry over it.

From System of Economical Contradictions; or, the Philosophy of Misery by Proudhon, P.-J. (Pierre-Joseph)

But there was one of Brutus's party, named Atellius, who opposed his resolution, advising rather that they should tarry over the winter.

From Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans by Clough, Arthur Hugh