Thus one cause of my tarriance to you I do render. From Wordnik.com. [A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 6] Reference
Highness back to your tent, and that without further tarriance. ''. From Wordnik.com. [The Talisman] Reference
'So fear'd the King, and, after two days' tarriance there, return'd. From Wordnik.com. [Lancelot and Elaine] Reference
After having finished the service in Yorkshire, I have had a week's tarriance at Harrowgate. From Wordnik.com. [Memoir and Diary of John Yeardley]
He who was born in happy hour made no tarriance; they saddled him Bavieca and threw his trappings on. From Wordnik.com. [Chronicle of the Cid] Reference
Seeing him come and somewhat provoked at his long tarriance, she began to rail at him, saying, 'Devil take the man!. From Wordnik.com. [The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio] Reference
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 Wordnik.com. [Chronicle of the Cid] Reference
They made no tarriance in doing this, for they had it at heart; one tarried with them, and the other returned, and said it was the host of the. From Wordnik.com. [Chronicle of the Cid] Reference
Picture-frames and copper succeed to tin-ware, argand lamps, and damaged crockery; china marks the next transition; and after no long tarriance in the "omnium gatherum" stage, the shop becomes a museum. From Wordnik.com. [Cousin Pons] Reference
Now came true tidings that the host of the Almoravides, which was at Lorca, was coming on through Murcia, and that the tarriance which they had made had been by reason of their Captain, who had fallen sick, but he was now healed, and they were advancing fast. From Wordnik.com. [Chronicle of the Cid] Reference
At last, after much long tarriance, the night drew near unto day and the dawn began to appear; whereupon the maid, who had been lessoned by the lady, coming down, opened the courtyard door and feigning to have compassion of Rinieri, said, 'Bad luck may he have who came hither yestereve!. From Wordnik.com. [The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio] Reference
Highness back to your tent, and that without further tarriance.”. From Wordnik.com. [The Talisman] Reference
I must have your highness back to your tent without further tarriance. ". From Wordnik.com. [The World's Greatest Books — Volume 08 — Fiction] Reference
Mr. Thomas Dickson, at my entreaty, as well as in respectful reverence to your honour’s health, carried him through the room without tarriance, judging his own bed-chamber the fittest place for a young man recovering from a severe illness, and after a day of no small fatigue.”. From Wordnik.com. [Castle Dangerous] Reference
Nor could she fail to be struck by the incongruity between his first dissuasion from her going to Eagle’s Crag at all, and the readiness with which he now accelerated her departure, and for a tarriance to which there did not appear to be, in his mind, any definite end. From Wordnik.com. [Isabella. A Novel] Reference
Mr. Thomas Dickson, at my entreaty, as well as in respectful reverence to your honour's health, carried him through the room without tarriance, judging his own bed-chamber the fittest place for a young man recovering from a severe illness, and after a day of no small fatigue. ". From Wordnik.com. [Waverley Novels — Volume 12] Reference
Canst give thy tarriance?. From Wordnik.com. [Fourth Book] Reference
I am impatient of my tarriance. From Wordnik.com. [Two Gentlemen of Verona The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.]] Reference
Who smiled on their tarriance here. From Wordnik.com. [Heart Utterances at Various Periods of a Chequered Life] Reference
A longing tarriance for Adonis made. From Wordnik.com. [The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare] Reference
Lady, as little tarriance as we may. From Wordnik.com. [Fair Em] Reference
One whose brief tarriance was foretold. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852] Reference
From tarriance in that frontier-region dim. From Wordnik.com. [The Poems of William Watson] Reference
Of tarriance; with loud din Cithaeron calls. From Wordnik.com. [The Georgics] Reference
So without rest or tarriance all that night. From Wordnik.com. [The Poems of William Watson] Reference
And crave my mite; till, worn with tarriance, 135. From Wordnik.com. [The Peasant's Confession] Reference
1065: I am impatient of my tarriance. From Wordnik.com. [Two Gentlemen of Verona (1623 First Folio Edition)] Reference
His noisome limbs, till, no long tarriance made. From Wordnik.com. [The Georgics] Reference
And, after two days’ tarriance there, returned. From Wordnik.com. [Idylls of the King] Reference
Lest, however, for overlong usance aught should grow thereof that might issue in tediousness, and that none may avail to cavil at our overlong tarriance, -- each of us, moreover, having had his or her share of the honour that yet resideth in myself, -- I hold it meet, an it be your pleasure, that we now return whence we came; more by token that, if you consider aright, our company, already known to several others of the neighbourhood, may multiply after a fashion that will deprive us of our every commodity. From Wordnik.com. [The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio] Reference
She answered that she would without fail do it and taking leave of him, returned to her house; whilst the scholar, rejoiced for that himseemed his desire was like to have effect, made an image with certain talismanic characters of his own devising, and wrote a rigmarole of his fashion, by way of conjuration; the which, whenas it seemed to him time, he despatched to the lady and sent to tell her that she must that very night, without more tarriance, do that which he had enjoined her; after which he secretly betook himself, with a servant of his, to the house of one of his friends who abode very near the tower, so he might give effect to his design. From Wordnik.com. [The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio] Reference
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