tarriance

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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 Yeardley, John

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 Southey, Robert

His tarriance full spent, he departed    And met me in Venice, And lines from her told that my jilter    Was stooping to sue.

From Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses by Hardy, Thomas

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

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 Hazlitt, William Carew