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

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.)

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

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.

But ye're not goin' to tarry over there, ner gossip—you hear?

From A Phyllis of the Sierras by Harte, Bret