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Tarry in sentence

12 examples of Tarry in a sentence

"From far, from eve and morning From yon twelve-winded sky, The stuff of life to knit me Blew hither; here am I. Now — for a breath I tarry Nor yet disperse apart — Take my hand quick and tell me, What have you in your heart.
I'm thinking it's no long he'd tarry to chat.
Tom came up to the fence and leaned on it, grieving, and hoping she would tarry yet awhile longer.
This was what I read -"SIR CHARLES TREGELLIS,"For God's sake, come at once, when this reaches you, to Cliffe Royal, and tarry as little as possible upon the way.
"Alas!" said the Jew, "he will not let me travel in his train--Saxon or Norman will be equally ashamed of the poor Israelite; and to travel by myself through the domains of Philip de Malvoisin and Reginald Front-de-Boeuf--Good youth, I will go with you!--Let us haste--let us gird up our loins--let us flee!--Here is thy staff, why wilt thou tarry?""I tarry not," said the Pilgrim, giving way to the urgency of his companion; "but I must secure the means of leaving this place--follow me."
Saint Maur!Clement! false-hearted, knaves, where tarry ye?""Call on them again, valiant Baron," said the hag, with a smile of grisly mockery; "summon thy vassals around thee, doom them that loiter to the scourge and the dungeon--But know, mighty chief," she continued, suddenly changing her tone, "thou shalt have neither answer, nor aid, nor obedience at their hands.--Listen
When the raft was completed, the Black Knight addressed the besiegers:--"It avails not waiting here longer, my friends; the sun is descending to the west--and I have that upon my hands which will not permit me to tarry with you another day.
My people, save the few who are now with me, do but tarry my presence to transport his honoured remains to their last mansion.
my daughter!--Alas! for the beauty of Zion!--Alas! for the captivity of Israel!""Thou seest," said Isaac, "how it stands with me, and that I may not tarry.
The deep and sharp rowels with which Ivanhoe's heels were now armed, began to make the worthy Prior repent of his courtesy, and ejaculate,--"Nay, but fair sir, now I bethink me, my Malkin abideth not the spur--Better it were that you tarry for the mare of our manciple down at the Grange, which may be had in little more than an hour, and cannot but be tractable, in respect that she draweth much of our winter fire-wood, and eateth no corn."
Come, my friends--such of you as are left, follow me to the banquet-hall, lest any more of us disappear--it is, I trust, as yet tolerably furnished, as becomes the obsequies of an ancient Saxon noble; and should we tarry any longer, who knows but the devil may fly off with the supper?"
"Lingerer!" he said, "my brain is on fire with impatience, and you tarry so long!"