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Meanings of tarrying in English

Traditional social custom and courting behavior.

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Examples for "bundling"
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The poor sailor went bundling over the snow like a shot rabbit.
Heralds of Empire / Being the Story of One Ramsay Stanhope, Lieu...
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The DCX domain has the ability to control MT architecture and bundling.
Pubmed
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It has no measurable effects on MT nucleation, polymerization, catastrophe, or bundling.
Pubmed
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She insisted on bundling everybody out for a blow on the moors.
A Popular Schoolgirl
5
But by bundling the rewards into paychecks, they're fairly invisible to people.
Reuters
Usage of tarrying in English
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He destines for himself no indolent tarrying in the garden of Armida.
Milton
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Today Death, tarrying longer than ever, came to sell at my doorstep.
The book of disquiet
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Then he turned and rode away without further tarrying on the spot.
Four Arthurian Romances
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Go ye to court without tarrying, the king will receive ye well.
Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the ...
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I excused myself from tarrying to tea, and returned to Miss Wharton's.
The Coquette, or, The History of Eliza Wharton / A Novel: Founde...
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Then he turned to the men-at-arms and said: No tarrying, my masters!
The Well at the World's End: A Tale
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If thou feelest any curiosity, then hasten, O Madhava, without tarrying here!
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 / Books 8,...
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The end of our tarrying in the Old World was now at hand.
Hawthorne and His Circle
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After tarrying some time in Samengan, Rustem was forced to return to Iran.
National Epics
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Without any long tarrying the bird came flying at her will.
French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France
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You are felt in this establishment, my valued friend, like some tarrying Nemesis.
Fate Knocks at the Door: A Novel
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After twelve days Joan reached Chinon, where the King was tarrying.
Beacon Lights of History, Volume 07: Great Women
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If we would take the water to-day, we must make no farther tarrying.
Sir Mortimer: A Novel
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Mellifont saved herself with them, but Belvisée tarrying to help Isoult was caught.
The Forest Lovers
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Repent, repent, for Death cometh swiftly and maketh no long tarrying.
The Gathering of Brother Hilarius
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You know this; nor do you think that these times of tarrying were wasted.
Trials and Triumphs of Faith
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