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Definition of Tarrying
1. tarry [v] - See also: tarry
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tarrying
Literary usage of Tarrying
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Principles of Mechanism: A Treatise on the Modification of Motion by Means by Stillman Williams Robinson (1896)
"224 divide the cam into four equal parts, retaining the opposite segments DH and
EG for the tarrying intervals. The= remaining opposite segments must serve ..."
2. The Æneid of Virgil by Virgil (1910)
"Nor tarrying, nor fearful, faltering mind " Shall slack our march. Meanwhile in
earth we lay " Our comrades fallen; for no honor else "In Acheron have they. ..."
3. The Genesis of the New England Churches by Leonard Bacon (1874)
"CHAPTER V. REFORMATION WITHOUT tarrying FOR ANY. WHAT Puritanism demanded was an
ecclesiastical reformation to be made by the national authority. ..."
4. The Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut [1636-1776] by Connecticut, Connecticut General Assembly, James Hammond Trumbull, Charles Jeremy Hoadly, Council of Safety (Conn.). (1876)
"John Glover, and have liberty of one of his male persons tarrying at home each
training day, but not exempted from the view of arms and ammunition. ..."
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