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tarry
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Definition:to stick around; delay; to dilly dally; to linger
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Dinna tarry too long; we must be in Bargrennan before dawn.
Diana Gabaldon. Outlander (1991)
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Philautus was earnest to have Euphues tarry in Naples, and Euphues desirous to have Philautus to Athens, but the one was so addicted to the court, the other so wedded to the university, that each refused the offer of the other,
John Lyly. Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit (1578)
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I felt no inclination to tarry the event; and, resolving to seek medical aid on my own responsibility, I quitted the chamber.
Emily Brontë. Wuthering Heights (1847)
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"The Babe and His mother," Olga repeated, and flushed all over with emotion. "'And flee into Egypt,... and tarry there until such time as...'" At the word "tarry" Olga could not refrain from tears.
Anton Chekhov. The Witch and other stories
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he began to sing, “Tarye no longer; toward thyn heritage / Hast on thy weye, and be of ryght good chere.”
John Kennedy Toole. A Confederacy of Dunces (1980)
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And thereupon the wine was fet anon.
We drunken, and to reste went each one,
Withouten any longer tarrying
A-morrow, when the day began to spring,
Chaucer. The Canterbury Tales: The Prologue
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Seẏ forth thẏ tale, and tarie noght the tẏme
Lo Depeford, and it is half way prẏme
Lo Grenewẏch, ther manẏ a sherewe is Inne
It were al tẏme, thẏ tale to bigẏnne
Chaucer. The Canterbury Tales: The Reeve's Prologue. p. 113
Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales
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