The brown monotony of the marshes is pleasant to him as green fields, while the wild duck tarries in the dark pools and the snipe probes the unfrozen patches of ooze.
Dinner is prepared, and only tarries your courteous appearance.
E'en now he tarries in the maiden's bower, As he has often done, and talks with her With guileful tongue, and cunning show of love.
The husband posts himself at the door to watch for the priest, and meanwhile the lady brings her lover in by the roof, and tarries with him.
The woodlark at his partner's side Twitters his closing song-- All meet whom day and care divide, But Leonard tarries long!
But the Bridegroom tarries, and while He tarries the business of the night must go on.
Before its splendid hour the cloud Comes o'er the beam of light; A pilgrim in a weary land, Man tarriesbut a night.
He tarriestoo long amidst the misty and mythical ages which precede the dawn of history; his speculations on the site of the original Paradise, on the Flood, &c.
Here some one calls his cow to him, Another there is felling wood; Who tarries in the forest-glade Thinks to himself, "I heard a cry.
In air upon his pathways hastening onward, Never on any day he tarries resting.
Then Time rushed past, but unsuccessful still His firm resolve he tarriesto fulfil.
But old Peter just tarries behind to state Why the Abbot had come there, and why so late.
Round wall and round mountain Together we fly; She tarries below there, I after her spy.
She tarries and hearkens, And smiling, thinks she: "How sweetly he's singing!
So the life of man tarries for a moment in our sight; but of what went before it, or what is to follow it, we know nothing.
The sparrow flies in at one door, and tarries for a moment in the light and heat of the fire within, and then, flying forth from the other, vanishes into the wintry darkness whence it came.
All the wood over her deep eyes roam, Marvelling sore where tarries the bee, Who leaves such lips of nectar unsought As those that blossom for thee.
Although he were sax miles awa, He'd seen be at my han; But wae is me, sae may I say, Brown Adam tarries lang!
I know not why the knave tarries thus, and needs must I punish him for it.
I hear and obey,' answered he; 'but my servant tarries long upon me and I know not if he have done aught of what I bade him or not.
He who leads a drunkard's life; He whose loved ones weep and pine, While he tarries at the wine.
He who breaks God's holy laws; He who scorns the Lord divine, While he tarries at the wine.
Unto homes almost divine, While he tarries at the wine?
He flits before us; tarries not; is gone When we approach, like something unsubstantial, Made of the air, and fading into air.
Most of all, the Spanish ballad Haunts me oft, and tarries long, Of the noble Count Arnaldos And the sailor's mystic song.
But he, the man-child glorious,-- Where tarries he the while?
The lord of the lands, who walketh forth, where tarries he?
The mother, queen who gives life to the afflicted, tarries not to repose.
Who walketh forth, the exalted who walketh forth, where tarries he?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tarries" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
