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Example sentences for "tarried"

Lexicographically close words:
tarre; tarred; tarriance; tarrible; tarrie; tarrier; tarries; tarrieth; tarrified; tarring
  1. Had I not better have tarried in Bagdad, and awaited my death?

  2. The two little slaves conducted me into a saloon magnificently furnished; and while one of them went to acquaint her mistress with my arrival, the other tarried with me, and pointed out to me the beauties of the hall.

  3. In fact, she tarried in Washington to finish many an uncompleted task, for some time after her office had been abolished.

  4. I tarried and yet tarried because of the buckhorn, the which came not yet, me to right great anger and discomfort by my troth .

  5. She invited Roderick to dismount and enter, but he was obliged to excuse himself as having tarried already too long, and thus this adventure terminated.

  6. He would willingly have tarried longer in this delicious retreat, but at the end of the five days, having learned that stirring events were being prepared in camp, he decided that he was sufficiently recovered to take part in them.

  7. One of the guests, who had tarried longer than all the others, issued alone and proceeded in the direction of Cathedral Square.

  8. If Pauline tarried she would not be allowed within the gates.

  9. They tarried at the bedside of a man whose left arm and right leg were bandaged.

  10. While Mr. World and Miss Church-Member tarried at the Theatres, I was permitted to see a conference of the evil spirits that had in charge the Theatre interests of Satan.

  11. She tarried longest in one of the sub-departments where Satan's expert doctors of literature delivered their special lectures on the writings of each author as far as they related directly or indirectly to the passions.

  12. Miss Church-Member, in traveling her chosen path, tarried at a place called Fellowship which occupied a pleasing site close by the King's Highway.

  13. Some who came tarried long; others, not satisfied, foolishly drifted to the schools of the King's Highway which ever carry on their work in opposition to the University of the World.

  14. As the noiseless carriage sped along I turned toward Blackana, who, in strange muteness still tarried at my side.

  15. Of the multitudes that tarried here from the Narrow Way very few went out at the front door.

  16. Don Diego and the physician took the same road, while the real clergyman and Joshua tarried with the ladies, who were, by this time, very much interested in the event.

  17. Innumerable birds had come and, like the northward-journeying ducks, they had tarried to stay.

  18. Then he sternly bound her to silence, tarried a moment to comfort Christine, and returned to where Madeline lay concealed.

  19. And I suppose the young men went down too, to flirt with the charming damsels, from the fact that the servant of Abraham tarried there.

  20. There they tarried for the night, and every house was opened to them, and on every hearth there was a girdle-cake for them.

  21. On leaving the Council Hall, Pabo tarried but for a few minutes in converse with Howel, and then ascended the glen down which brawled the Annell.

  22. All tarried in silence, breathless, fearing they knew not what--but expecting no good.

  23. I have tarried with you over long," quoth Alleyne, and resolutely set forth upon his journey once more.

  24. Knight and squire gazed from rogue to avenger, but as it was a matter which none could mend they tarried no longer, but rode upon their way.

  25. They said, "We have tarried a day or part of day.

  26. And they tarried in their cave 300 years, and 9 years over.

  27. The sense of the last clause is, "Yes have not tarried even so much as ten days, such, now that we look back upon it, is the brevity of life.

  28. They will say, "We tarried a day, or part of a day;13 but ask the recording angels.

  29. He will say, "What number of years tarried ye on earth?

  30. And truly they had almost caused thee to quit the land, in order wholly to drive thee forth from it:24 but then, themselves should have tarried but a little after thee.

  31. On that day shall God call you forth, and ye shall answer by praising Him; and ye shall seem to have tarried but a little while.

  32. Said one of them, "How long have ye tarried here?

  33. He said, "Peace," and he tarried not, but brought a roasted calf.

  34. On the day when they shall see it, it shall seem to them as though they had not tarried in the tomb, longer than its evening or its morn.

  35. And well she seemed to comprehend The time appointed for her stay, The little hour that with her friend She tarried there was all her day.

  36. Mild weather and favoring winds were theirs at first, and the equinoctial rudeness tarried till the voyagers were nearly halfway across the Atlantic.

  37. The time I tarried here, I employed in making the best observations possible on the country, and in collecting the most certain intelligence I could of the origin, language, and customs of this people.

  38. Here he fell in with some shoemakers, and tarried with them a whole year, learning their trade.

  39. Sending his suite around by another path, he went alone to her tomb and tarried for a time in prayer and sorrow.

  40. And when he had tarried among them more than ten days, he went down unto Caesarea; and the next day sitting on the judgment-seat commanded Paul to be brought.

  41. And as we tarried there many days, there came down from Judea a certain prophet, named Agabus.

  42. Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to visit Cephas, and tarried with him fifteen days.

  43. And Paul tarried there yet a good while, and then took his leave.

  44. And after they had tarried there a space, they were let go in peace from the brethren unto the Apostles.

  45. So Ixion tarried in the house of Zeus, far above in the pure æther, where only the light clouds weave a fairy net-work at the rising and setting of the sun.

  46. Then suddenly she heard the harsh voice which scared her on the heights of Mænalos, and she tarried not to listen to his prayer.

  47. He tarried not to hear the voice of Danae, he stayed not to look on the face of Perseus, nor to see that the hero who had slain the Gorgon bore him no malice for the wrongs of the former days.

  48. But Odysseus bade him be silent and sleep, and Telemachus went his way, and Odysseus tarried to take counsel with Athene for the work of the coming vengeance.

  49. No more would he take lance in hand or lift up his shield for the strife, but he tarried in his own house by the side of the beautiful Kleopatra, whom Idas, her father, gave to him to be his wife.

  50. Still he tarried in his chamber with his wife, Kleopatra, by his side, and heeded not the hunger and the wailings of the people.

  51. Is not this a city of enemies, wherein if ye had tarried but one single day ye would all have suffered death?

  52. Passing through the tribe of Shawnees we tarried one night with them, and the next day crossed the Kansas river and entered among the Delawares.

  53. Here we tarried one week, in course of which the rear camp, headed by Amasa Lyman, arrived in good condition.

  54. Encamped and built a bridge across the deep and narrow channel, about four feet wide, and tarried here next day for the remainder of our company, some of whom had failed to obtain their animals the day before.

  55. I struck the wagon trail we had made the year before, near Garden Grove, and tarried there with the Saints one day.

  56. We tarried three days in Parowan Fort and preached to the Saints.

  57. I had not tarried many minutes before I was accosted by a stranger, who inquired my name and where I was going.

  58. The remainder tarried to complete their sales.

  59. I tarried with him one night, and the next day we walked some twenty-five miles to the residence of Mr. Whitmer, in Seneca County.

  60. Here we tarried with one of the members of the Church, and were kindly entertained.

  61. We tarried with them two weeks; during which I preached in the City Hall at Detroit, and superintended some printing and publishing matters.

  62. I tarried to breakfast, which consisted of a good cup of coffee and a fowl, with some corn bread or "dodger.

  63. We tarried at his house a week or two, and preached to crowded congregations in all the region; he frequently going with us to introduce us and open the way.

  64. All the camps moved from Red Creek and encamped near the fort, where we tarried a few days.

  65. We tarried in the neighborhood some two months, and preached daily in all that region to vast multitudes, both in town and country, in the grove, and in school houses, barns and dwellings.

  66. I tarried mostly with a branch of the Church commonly called the Colesville branch.

  67. The head men of Niembouai and of Upper Niembouai were two brothers, so the people consented to receive me, and we tarried there a few days.

  68. We are not told how long Abraham tarried at Haran; yet God graciously waited on his servant until, freed from nature's clog, he could fully obey his command.

  69. And he lighted upon a certain place, and tarried there all night, because the sun was set; and he took of the stones of that place and put them for his pillows, and lay down in that place to sleep.

  70. And when they had fulfilled the days, as they returned, the child Jesus tarried behind in Jerusalem; and Joseph and his mother knew not of it.

  71. And the people waited for Zacharias, and marvelled that he tarried so long in the temple.

  72. We tarried long at Constantinople, for there were many wonderful things to be seen.

  73. Deeming it unsafe however to quit England, he tarried at court and passed his time in hunting and hawking, according to the manners of the age.


  74. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tarried" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.