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has tarried

  • present perfect of tarry (3rd person singular).

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Weeping has tarried for the night — more than one night, through 10 days, now, of doubt and disappointment.

From Washington Post Mar. 27, 2020

Running two hours and 40 minutes, The Comedians has everything but economy, and Director Peter Glenville has tarried with a story that might have been twice as good at half the length.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the complexion of a third still lingers a tropic tawn, but slightly bleached withal; HE doubtless has tarried whole weeks ashore.

From Moby Dick, or, the whale by Melville, Herman

So, after explaining the true position and character of our monkish author and artist, we leave his book to the judgment which it has tarried for so long.

From A Monk of Fife by Lang, Andrew

He has tarried long120 And lonely in the world: the vision comes To animate his hopes—to say, Live, live With me, for evermore!

From The Poetical Works of William Lisle Bowles Vol. 2 by Gilfillan, George

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